Oh friends. Your eyes do not deceive you, this picture is slightly identical to last week’s but a little different. Have a seat, let me tell you what happened.

But first, if you have missed the last few weeks, let me catch you up. We are participating in the one room challenge. Which is a  six week challenge where designers, and guest participants share the transformation of a room from concept to completion. It’s quite inspiring to see so many people transforming their homes during this six week period. You can follow along by going to the link above or scrolling #OneRoomChallenge on Instagram.

You can catch up with Week 1, Week 2, and Week 3 at your leisure. Now back to “what had happened was.”

We discovered the width of the cabinet was a few inches short of a normal hanger. This meant that the clothing would hang out in the open and not be flush with the edge of the cabinet. I’m afraid this made no sense, in other words the shirt would hang past the edge of the cabinet.

We tried to come up with a solution to make it work, but the end result was ripping out the old cabinet to build a new one that was 18 inches wide to account for a hanger making everything look neat and flush. If you follow me on Instagram Stories you saw the whole saga go down. I’m too tired to create a video of my IG stories, hang tight, I’ll post it next week.

But anyway it looked a little something like this:

He was removing the trim at this point, I was low key in the corner weeping. Upside was that we were only in about $65 at this point. We are able to reuse the old sides as the top shelves so we really didn’t lose more than $15 that was spent on the MDF boards that he made the shelves out of.

If you look closely you can see the new one, on the left, is larger across allowing for more storage. More storage is always a good thing.

Might I say I’m glad we took this step back to make sure we would love the end product moving forward. He has me convinced that we will have the closet ready to reveal on November 7. I’m keeping hope alive.

Here’s our unchanged list of things that need to be done from last week:

Here’s what we need:

• More hanging space
• Better shoe storage
• Shelving (built-ins, shoe shelving, high shelving for storage)
• Grout existing flooring
• New lighting
• Paint (ceiling, walls, built-ins)
• Drywall repair (ceiling, walls)
• New hangers
• Glass closet door
• Baskets
• Floor length mirror
• Install hanging rods
• Rug

We’re still chugging along with the master closet. I’m currently typing this to the background noise of a jig saw, hammer and air nailer. I’m so happy to start seeing some tangible changes this week.

If you’ve been MIA the past two weeks, we are participating in the One Room Challenge. If  you aren’t familiar with the ORC, it is a six week challenge where designers, and guest participants share the transformation of a room from concept to completion. It’s quite inspiring to see so many people transforming their homes during this six week period. You can follow along by going to the link above or scrolling #OneRoomChallenge on Instagram.

If you need to catch up, here is Week 1, and Week 2.

Happy to report we stuck to the script this week and got the shelving built. Again, when I say we, I actually mean he. With an awkward corner we knew we didn’t want the poles from the left and right side of the closet to cross over each other so we needed something to keep that from happening. We came up with the idea to put a small shelving system in that would serve as not only storage but also as something to affix the closet poles to.

I’ll be honest, when I posted the inspiration photo last week, I was a little skeptical that we would get it done.

But would you look at this….

Y’all.

I wasn’t home when he put the original structure together, but I came home to the shell and was overcome with joy! We knew we needed this little piece for function, but originally envisioned it holding baskets for storage. Now that it’s up, it will house my shoes. He even went as far as to ask me to bring my Hunter boots so he could make sure he made the bottom shelf tall enough so they could stand upright.

We are planning to do a low shelf on the right side for the shoes he wears most often, and then a storage solution will be placed up high for the rest of his sneakers. We haven’t quite worked out how that will come together just yet.

So what’s next?

Crown moulding for the ceiling, molding on the shelving, patching the holes in the wall and painting is up for this week. If I decide to stop waiting on that coupon from last week, I suppose the light will go up.

Here’s our updated list of things that have been completed, and things that still need to be done.

Here’s what we need:

• More hanging space
• Better shoe storage
• Shelving (built-ins, shoe shelving, high shelving for storage)
• Grout existing flooring
• New lighting
• Paint (ceiling, walls, built-ins)
• Drywall repair (ceiling, walls)
• New hangers
• Glass closet door
• Baskets
• Floor length mirror
• Install hanging rods
• Rug