Immediately is Could 1st. I formally began engaged on this closet on March twelfth. That signifies that I’ve been at this undertaking for seven weeks. The entire bed room suite has been underway for longer than that, clearly. It was on the finish of final 12 months that the overall work started.
It was on the finish of final 12 months that my mother and I cleared out the entire bed room gadgets, tore down the 2 closets that flanked the window, and acquired it prepared for the contractor to do his half. So the room went from this…
And after we have been performed, it seemed like this…
Then I handed it over to the contractor to do his half. After having contractor issues (which I wrote about here) and needing a while to regroup, I turned my focus to my workshop for some time. Once I was lastly prepared to show my consideration again to the bed room suite, I employed out the set up of the flooring within the bed room suite. So this room, and the entire bed room suite, has been underneath building because the finish of final 12 months.
Seven weeks looks like a extremely very long time to me, so it might be straightforward to be upset with my progress. However I knew going into this undertaking that this could be my greatest construct but. Once I look again at different massive tasks that I’ve performed, seven weeks doesn’t look like very lengthy as compared.
My pantry, which I constructed from scratch, took me about 3.5 months from starting to finish, and it was about half the scale of the closet.
And my studio…nicely, that undertaking took 17 months from the day I began sanding the ground to color it, to the day that it was utterly completed. It’s a a lot larger room, nevertheless it didn’t require fairly as a lot constructing since I used IKEA cupboards in there, and I simply custom-made them with trim and paint. However being a a lot larger room, it did require extra tasks basically that had to enter that room with the intention to end it.
So I suppose seven weeks isn’t actually that dangerous. At first of this 12 months, this room seemed like this…
And on the finish of the day on March twelfth, the day I think about the official begin date of this walk-in closet undertaking, it seemed like this…
And over the course of the final seven weeks, I’ve constructed the entire cupboard containers…
Added the entire cabinets…
Trimmed out the entire cupboards…
Added the entire ornamental molding and corbels…
Constructed the glass-top jewellery drawer and pull-out necklace bar…
Primed, caulked, sanded, and painted the entire cupboards…
And hung the wallpaper, mirror, and sconces.
And alongside the way in which, there have been all types of different time-consuming issues I needed to do, like sanding the ground across the perimeter earlier than I may connect the baseboards to the cupboards, putting in the vent for the dryer, and so on.
Throughout an enormous undertaking, it may be straightforward to start out feeling upset with the velocity at which the undertaking is progressing. I’ve form of hit that time with this closet. So I feel it’s essential to take a minute, look again on the progress that has been made, and notice simply how a lot has been performed.
That’s why I at all times encourage individuals to take footage alongside the way in which. Take a number of footage earlier than and through a undertaking. Should you’re doing an enormous undertaking like transforming a kitchen, take a number of footage, as a result of I can virtually assure you that you’ll hit a degree throughout that transform while you surprise if issues are literally getting completed, and if the undertaking will ever come to an finish. It may be an encouragement to look again at precise footage (quite than relying in your reminiscence) to the very starting and be capable to see the precise progress via a sequence of photographs.
And whereas I’m very able to be performed with this closet, and I may very simply be upset that it has taken this lengthy up to now, I’m additionally extremely inspired after I evaluate how this room seemed at first of the 12 months and what it appears like now…
I don’t understand how for much longer this room goes to take me, however I’ve determined to remain centered on this room till it’s completed. Matt and I’ve talked over the choices, and he didn’t like the thought of me leaving the closet unfinished and beginning on the bed room in any respect. We’ve provide you with two different choices (primarily based in your strategies) for the place we will put his recliner — the studio or the bed room whereas I’m ending the closet. He says he may be snug in both place, and each locations have a TV, so we’ll check out each of them and see which one he likes higher.
So so long as he’s on board with me engaged on the closet till it’s utterly completed, that’s what I’ll do. I nonetheless have fairly an inventory of issues that have to be performed in right here, however the greatest and hardest half is behind me. I’d like to get it completed by the top of Could, so we’ll see how that works out. The one factor left on my record which will throw a wrench into that plan is the island. I’ll be constructing that from scratch, and it’s been some time since I’ve constructed one thing with a number of drawers from scratch. I really feel assured that I can do it, however it might take me longer than I feel it’ll.
Apart from that, the remainder of the gadgets are fairly small as compared. However I’m going to remain centered and see simply how shortly I can get all of it completed. Immediately is lighting day. I’ll be including the entire recessed lights, eradicating the ceiling fan, and hanging the brand new chandelier. I’ll need to take it down sooner or later and provides it a makeover, however I can use it as is for now to provide extra mild to the room.
So right here’s to a profitable month of Could! Let’s see if I can get this factor completed by the top of the month.
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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