That’s right, my Trapped in the Closet dream post came way sooner than anyone could have hoped for.
It’s 5 pm in the afternoon, and I’m arrivin’ home from work,
and I see in my office there’s some shelfin’ that wasn’t there at first,
I rub my eyes and I’m so excited I feel like I’m gonna yell,
and out of that closet pops my good friend Mister R. Kell!
Okay that R. Kelly part didn’t happen. Nevertheless, I was pretty floored that we were able to complete the shelves so quickly. My parents surprised Jason and I by installing the shelves as an early housewarming/wedding/we are the most generous parents on earth-gift. So let’s take a look at them, shall we?
I am pretty excited about these. There’s still a lot we want to do to them, but for now just having them up is exciting. Did I just use the word excited twice? I’m just so excited, if you can’t tell.
But now that they are up, what should I do with them? We’re trying to decide if we want to paint the back wall of the shelves something fun and cheery, like maybe a lime green or sunny yellow. Maybe something like this:
Source: flickr.com via Kate on Pinterest
Or, if we want to treat these cabinets like built-ins. I used to live in a gorgeous old apartment built in the 1920s that retained all of the original built-ins from the era. They were always so fun to display things in, I loved them so much I even took a picture (long before my blogging days).
While I don’t know how possible it is to turn these new shelves into anything like the old built-in, I want to keep my options open.
The third option would be to put closet doors on these, and turn them back into a closet. The main benefit to doing this is you could truly hide any sort of junk, and you could also trap R. Kelly in there when necessary.
I’m very excited to start organizing these shelves and really making them work for me. So far, the best thing about these is I managed to fit all of my office supplies on the shelves and there aren’t any lingering boxes in the living room (SCOUT’S HONOR!) ! While they aren’t all super pretty and organized yet, for now we can hide everything behind the screen, and keep it on the downlow.
"Skipper Approved!" - Skipper
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