Closets!

So the Mr. and I have been spending the past couple weekends redoing our bedroom. We painted, hung drapery, purchased artwork, and put the room together quite nicely (in my opinion!) a few weekends ago. This past weekend we tackled the closet. I've wanted to put in a closet organizer for quite a while now, and *hurrah* we finally got around to it...

First things first. The semi-finished project. Sorry for the bad lighting, I wasn't in the mood to figure out how to take a better picture with my phone!

We put in ClosetMaid Selectives laminate organizer purchased from Home Depot. Two 16" towers, five 8" drawers, 2 wire baskets. Assembly was pretty easy--everything was included in the kit and the instructions were pretty detailed.

Each tower kit contains two base units that are stacked to form the tower, and three adjustable rods. I wish that the instructions for assembling the base units included a note that mentioned that placement of the lower shelf would vary based on whether you're installing with drawers or baskets, or just leaving it as shelves, as we had to disassemble and re-assemble three of the four units for our planned configuration.

The drawers had decorative panel fronts and nickel pulls. The sliders pull all the way out, and are a little greasy. (photo from ClosetMaids website)

The only thing I wasn't happy with was one drawer kit shipped with the wrong size cams, so I had to run and try to find a replacement. Also, the Mr. broke one of the shelves (which is why one tower only has two shelves instead of three), but that's nobody else's fault. However, I don't think ClosetMaid sells them individually, so I won't be able to replace that broken shelf.

Everything installed in just over a weekend--this includes taking down the old closet and painting the walls & baseboards. I'll be a happy camper once the touch-up work is completed and I can use my new closet!