Walk-In Closet Progress, An Apology, and A Maniac

I wish to begin as we speak’s publish by issuing a public apology to my mother. 🤣 In Friday’s publish, I discussed that she had informed me to color stripes on the ends of my island, and I stated that we didn’t speak in regards to the particulars of the stripes, so I simply went with the overall thought of “stripes in colours from the wallpaper” and did this mockup and credited the thought to her.

So I’d prefer to take this chance to supply a public apology to my mother for misrepresenting her artistic thought and impugning her artistic imaginative and prescient and creative eye. After which yesterday after church, I noticed that I had missed an electronic mail from my mother the place she issued a public assertion. Oh my gosh, y’all. I used to be laughing so laborious I had tears streaming down my face. However as per my mother’s needs, I’ll publish her public assertion right here…

Oh my goodness!!!  These stripes are undoubtedly NOT what I had envisioned!  They draw all consideration away from the wallpaper.  Discuss CLASH!!!  My first selection was darkish blue with a white prime.  I solely advised stripes since you had been so decided to make use of pink.  I assumed giant darkish blue stripes with small and even tiny pink stripes.  Your footage and mockups don’t appear to point out how very giant that island is.  In the event you paint it pink, it’ll scream “LOOK AT ME” if you stroll in quite than directing the attention to the wallpaper.  I believe darkish blue would make the wallpaper pop.  However it’s your home, and you’ve got the best to be flawed.  😊

🤣🤣 So once more, Mother, I situation this public apology to you. (She did need me to emphasise that that is all in good enjoyable. We now have a really enjoyable relationship, and we joke round lots about our artistic variations and differing opinions.)

So with that behind us, I do have a stable plan. However I didn’t get as far with it as I had hoped this weekend as a result of…nicely…I’ll get to that. However right here’s what I did get achieved.

First, I obtained the toes on the island moved out. In the event you’ll keep in mind, I had hooked up the toes earlier than including the entire trim. And I made the error of not accounting for the trim after I marked and measured the location for the toes. So as soon as the trim went on, the toes had been barely noticeable.

So whereas my good friend was nonetheless on the town, I had her and my mother assist me flip the island over on its prime in order that I may transfer the toes. Since I had glued them on with wooden glue, I had to make use of my Dremel Multi-Max to get them off. Then I lower six items of 1/2-inch plywood to connect to the underside in order that the toes may very well be moved out sufficient because the trim caught up 1/2-inch from the plywood base.

With these plywood items offering a stage space with the trim, I used to be then capable of measure, mark, and drill the brand new holes for the toes.

After which I re-attached them (once more, utilizing wooden glue) about 1/4″ from the sting of the trim.

And with that, it regarded so a lot better and extra balanced. You’ll be able to truly see the toes now.

And now the toes could be clearly seen from all 4 sides of the island.

After that, I spent fairly a little bit of time on the highest. I sanded it down fully to get that reddish pink paint off, after which sanded all the way down to 220-grit to get it as easy as attainable. I additionally crammed in that deep groove within the trim across the edge with wooden filler all the best way round and sanded it easy. Since I’m going to color it to seem like a really gentle marble, I didn’t need that deep groove as a result of that’s form of a lifeless giveaway that it’s wooden trim. With out that deep groove, it appears to be like extra like an actual edge profile that you simply would possibly see on actual marble. After which I obtained it primed and sanded all the way down to 220-grit in order that it’s as easy as attainable.

Simply with these two modifications, it appears to be like so a lot better. Regardless that the highest is simply primer proper now, I really like the brightness that the white provides to the room.

I’ll perform a little bit extra sanding to ensure the corners are as seamless as attainable on that edge trim, after which I hope to get the highest completed as we speak.

I additionally obtained all ten drawer bins painted. I hadn’t deliberate on portray them, however I very clearly purchased the flawed plywood to make my drawer bins. I mistakenly purchased a 1/2-inch plywood that’s primed on one facet and veneer on the opposite. I didn’t notice I used to be shopping for a primed plywood. However the veneer facet doesn’t seem like veneer, both. It doesn’t have that pure heat brown coloration that plywood typically has. I imply, it did after I purchased it, however because it sat in my workshop, it developed this vintage (yellowed) white coloration, which is fairly ugly. So I made a decision to color the within of the entire bins white. That was a time-consuming and unplanned step on this island undertaking, however I didn’t need these yellowish drawer bins.

After which, quite than utilizing wallpaper on the ends of the drawer bins, I made a decision to only paint them a enjoyable coloration. I searched by my stash of paint and located this one which I assumed would work. That is Behr Watermelon Punch, and it’s one of many 15 colours I used on the house fitness center partitions. I believe it’ll be a pleasant punch of coloration when the drawers are open. I solely painted the ends as a result of the backs received’t present, and the fronts will probably be lined with drawer fronts.