Here is the master bedroom before our renovation. The closet had sliding doors. This meant you could only see inside one half of it at a time. The wire shelves were crooked, as was the floor. The linoleum had two overlapping layers in the closet, apparently having been cut too small. There was a wallpaper trim.
Before we moved in we took down the wallpaper and painted the room Mascarpone with Chantilly Lace baseboards (white and whiter). Eventually we added a blue accent wall in Cumulus Cotton. I wanted bifold doors. I wanted to see the whole closet at once.
After we moved in we spent a few days sleeping in the dining room while installing new floors in the bedroom, right over top of all the old layers. It actually made the bedroom floor level with the rest of the house and minimized the slope in the closet. Instead of buying new doors we cut the old ones in half, turned them into bifolds, and painted them Stonington Grey.
We were able to reuse the middle shelves, we gave the wire ones away, and added dowels to hang our reduced wardrobe.
We got the doorknobs from my in-laws who had been saving them for us since they renovated their house in the nineties (before they even knew I existed). The hardware is sixties era and apparently there is more.
The clothes are arranged using the folding method described in "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up". What you see inside is both of our entire wardrobes minus underwear, accessories, coats, and shoes. Our socks are in the box.
The rug is in the same position it was in when my daughter was born on it last December. The rose painting was meant to be used as a meditation tool during labour (a blooming flower). At the time it was wedged in the middle of a pile of junk and there was no time for meditation.
