What's in YOUR closet?
Someone had requested pictures of the insides of my, um, closets.
My built-in closets specifically.
This only slightly weirds me out.
I mean, COME ON, I've shown the world my bathroom. My garage. My kitchen and my bedroom. Why did I hesitate to grab the camera this time?
Do nice girls show their closets to total strangers? Especially when they aren't especially neat or straightened up?
Click on any image to enlarge the picture.
Well, there they are.
Shelves are adjustable from these holes drilled in the sides with these little brass clips that fit into the holes and hold up the shelves. Some stained beadboard in the back of the closet. And....ta da! Nothing fancy.
I do like cubby holes and places to put things that have doors that close. That puts things into the magical land called "Away." While Aaron, with his Superman-like laser x-ray vision can see if things IN DRAWERS or BEHIND DOORS are neat, I just care that they are AWAY.
Away is a really lovely place, you know?
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Comments
Thank you.
The ones still in our house look like the first picture but are covered with layer after layer of white paint. The beadboard is not there on ours and the knobs are different. I guess the point is that what we have is at least close to what was original.
I will try to replace it with the same style knowing it wasn't some relatively recent renovation. Your pictures will help.
You are the best.
-djg
Posted by: david | October 7, 2004 2:13 PM
djg--
No prob :) I don't know if our knobs are the original ones. I don't think that they are. The linen closet and the bathrooms are all glass knobs. The kitchen is definitely something from the 50's. (They did their own "update" on the kitchen around that time.)
But the beadboard is definitely original because there is a cabinet that was built later that doesn't have it. And it is the only one which doesn't have it.
We refinished one cabinet while leaving it in place. The second cabinet, well, we pried that one loose. Refinishing it is going much much faster with the help of our neighbor and pal Krystyna, who stripped it in her garage while we were working on the 2nd floor. Taking ours and putting them back was easier than I thought.
Take care--
jm
Posted by: jm | October 7, 2004 5:31 PM
Did I mention that one of the kitchen shelves was a wooden Chinese Checker board turned upside down and covered with shelf paper? No?
Well, it was. That was interesting.
Posted by: jm | October 7, 2004 5:33 PM