Closet Makeover 

Happy Tuesday, friends. This weekend, Cory and I had an extra long weekend, so we tackled the first stage of getting the nursery started…a closet makeover. Ironically enough, this really didn’t involve the nursery at all! When we first moved into our house, almost 6 years ago, Cory and I both had a ridiculous amount of clothes, so I took the master closet and dresser and he used the guest bedroom closet, dresser, and chest of drawers. And it’s worked out very well for us.

Now that Hot Pie is planning on making her entrance into the world in a few short months, we plan on using the guest bedroom as her nursery–meaning that Cory’s stuff had to be cleared out! Seeing as how our office has no extra room {maybe I’ll get around to sharing what we’ve done in there sometime in the next year or so}, our only solution was to finally have him move his stuff into our bedroom and I had to give up my big walk-in closet all to myself.

This baby better be cute.

Just kidding.

If you follow me on Snapchat {@reasonstch}, you may have already seen a few of these pictures but here’s what we started with. I guess I could have straightened it up before I snapped some pictures. By the way, these were all taken with my iPhone because allergies had me feeling pretty run down all weekend and I just didn’t even think about taking decent pictures with my DSLR.

Plus, it’s a closet. Pretty hard to photograph.

Just for your information, Cory is the one who puts my shoes on the rack like that backwards. Who does that???

As you can see, there is a lot of wasted space above all my clothes. At some point, there was another shelf there but it was gone before we ever moved in.

You can’t really see it in this picture but there is also a wasted corner on the left because that metal bar went all the way to the wall.

He was just so thrilled to be using dry wall mud again.

Early in the day on Friday, we had all the shelves out, the dry wall mud was drying and the rest had been painted Revere Pewter by Benjamin Moore {the same color as our bedroom}. Our original plan was to install this unit from IKEA. But once we started putting it together, we realized it was much bigger than we thought and took up the entire closet.

So we took it back down, packed it back up and now have to take it all the way back to Atlanta to return it. Bummer! But I plan on exchanging it for the dresser for the nursery while I’m there.

We went back to the drawing board and after going back and forth with a few ideas, we decided these wire shelves from Lowe’s would be our best bet {and easiest!} because they had corner shelves you could buy.

I feel like I should preface this picture by saying that while we were doing this, Cory and I both switched out our summer and winter clothes. We both have significantly less summer clothes and they take up a lot less room.

But on top of that, we purged almost 4 bags of clothes to get rid of.

I know this isn’t the best picture but I will try and share how we organized everything with better pictures. I should also note that our coats and my dresses are in the office closet and we also have a dresser in our bedroom.

Our house doesn’t have the most space but it’s cozy and we will keep making it work!