Bedroom Changes

We are using the Jack and Jill bedrooms for our child.  He's very tall and needed a King bed.  The rooms in the house are tiny so we opted to put the king bed in the smaller of the 2 rooms and turned the larger room into the sitting area.  

This summer we will gut the bathroom and rid it of all of the mismatched materials and dumb things the builder did.  I'll have a field day with that one and in the end that bathroom will be transformed to a spa-like retreat, thoughfully planned out and very functional.

In the meantime, we corrected several nuisances to make life functional.  First, the cable was placed in the only location that absolutely wouldn't work, so it was rerun.  The jack was located behind the right hand closet door on 2' of wall space.  That wall runs perpendicular to the front wall with windows that provided 1' of space.  No one would EVER put a tv there!  In order to reach a likely tv location, the cable wire ran across the closet entrance and was taped to the floor in front of the bedroom entrance.   Now it's runs from a wall location that can reach the tv and is hidden behind a dresser.  Problem solved, you are welcome Mr. "Builder".

The closets themselves have double doors and previously when opened them, it was like staring at caves on the right and lefthand sides.  In the pitch black you couldn't see a thing.  Our "Fix It" guy was able to add canned lights in the ceilings on both sides of the closet so everything in the closet can be seen.  He used a contact sensor so when you open the doors, the light comes on automatically.  Next, he patched all the mess the tearing out of the old made and I painted the closets, SW Pussywillow is the color - a sort of Gray with a little Taupe thrown in.  It's really a pleasant shade for the backdrop.

Once that was complete we were ready for the install. We used a professional closet company and redesigned the width of the shelves as well as the depth.  The previous fixed-shelves were 11" deep and of equal distance, the long hang was way too high and the bar was not only too close to the shelf but the clothes hung too far off the wall.  The brackets were just plain stupidity and you couldn't slide anything along the length of the bar.  All of those issues have been corrected with 14" deep shelves on the right and left, 26" wide and 16" deep center unit with six movable shelves.  Pictured is the wider of the two closets so we added the 6" deep drawers for a nice touch.  The closets look like a boutique now!  It cost around a bit but wow, the storage and the organization, not to mention how you feel when getting ready, is like day and night!