Guest Room Closet

 And here is another example of pure stupidity.  This closet is cheaply built and under-utilized space.  This closet measures 5' x 5' with 10' ceilings.  Look at the lack of use it provides!!  I have 1 storage closet in the house in an upstairs hall and in my last home I had 4!  A few months back, I was staring at the games and puzzles that I had stacked up on the lower shelf and realized we rarely have guests and when we do it's been 4-5 days at best.  That long hanging rod is above my head which is completely the wrong height!  The shelves are 11" deep and the rod construction is so poor that the clothes are way off the wall and out in front of the shelf.  The rod is too close to the shelf and the brackets are so often, I have to constantly pick up the hangers and move clothes from one side to the other side of the bracket.   But what I realized is that I need is shelving to organize my things while still providing extra blankets and pillowsand the empty rods for guests.  


I have to point this out because this should've failed inspection.  There was no electrical recepticle in this ceiling.  The flourescent light was toggle bolted to the sheetrock.  I had to run out and buy the recepticle so it could be added in order to install a low profile LED light.  Now there are 2 50-cent piece sized holes that require a huge and messy patch job as a result of imporper installation.

I contacted a few closet companies and decided for this and my son's closets, we would redo them right away.  Another issue is that these shelves are 11" deep and all through the house are the same!  My master closet is HUGE and this builder used this same BS "closet" system in there, too.  No clothes when folded fit on an 11" shelf.  Shoes of under Men's size 10 fit, otherwise they have to be placed on a diagonal.  Here is the design I came up with.  We are gutting and patching 3 closets tomorrow.  Hopefully these are not shot up with nails, another problem, because closets are supposed to be screwed into the studs but this builder had added all of these wood strips and then attached everything to them.  The guy doing the work told me all the closets he has demo-ed were all shot up with nails and will need sheet rock repair.  More mess!


OK, big reveal, this is a closet!!  Thank you Closet Factory of Apex!!