Most often we don't pay much attention to our closets. We just stuff them full of junk and close the doors. Usually we complain that we don't have enough of them, or that they're not big enough, but lately I have been thinking about closets in more unconventional ways. It started with a brilliant front-entry closet to mud-room style nook conversion that I saw from House of Smiths and replicated for a client of mine who had a very narrow entryway, and didn't really need a front closet, but did need a place for visitors to sit and shed their coats and shoes. Click here for tutorial The fact of the matter is, sometimes, depending on your needs in a particular space, a closet can be better used for something other than a closet. One of the things that really bothered me when we first moved into our house was the upstairs hallway. It was straight, narrow, dark, and full of doors. 30 years ago the builders of my home sought to try and include everything a family would need into the space available and for the most part I am happy with that, but in the hallway, it just felt like they were trying to cram too many things in. My small hallway contained: 3 bedroom doors, 1 bathroom door, 1 small coat closet, 1 narrow broom closet, and the most ridiculously undersized linen closet I have ever seen. Broom Closet BEFORE Functionally, these 2 skinny little closets just weren't working for me. Sure they existed, which I guess was better than nothing at all, but the narrow size coupled with bi-fold doors limited what could actually be stored in the closet in the first place and made it very difficult to put things in and pull things out. From a design perspective, I had a rectangle full of rectangles. It was too much repetition. It felt crowded. I couldn't stand it. But what to do about it? Kinda-Custom Storage Cabinet First, I needed to create a different storage solution that worked better for my linens and cleaning supplies. This is when I came up with my Kinda-Custom Storage Cabinet which gave me all the storage I needed and more. With my stuff out of the way, I could concentrate on improving the aesthetics of my hallway. I had 3 main goals in mind for my hallway: light, space, and variety. In order to create some more breathing room between all those rectangles crowded together, I took out the broom closet. I dry-walled over the existing closet opening in the hallway, but didn't eliminate the closet all together (because, I do need some closets). (New tutorial coming soon: How-To Drywall) Instead I cut a hole in the side of the closet which then made it a much needed bathroom closet instead of an impractical hall closet. Eliminating this impractical closet from the hallway cut down on the number of rectangles crowding my hallway, and created a little more open wall space for artwork which will bring more variety and balance to the space. Broom closet AFTER Next I replaced the trim and doors with brilliant white, which automatically lightened and expanded the space. I chose a 3 panelled door, instead of the pre-existing flat doors, which brought more lines, shapes and interest into the space creating more variety. (New tutorial coming soon: How-To Replace Doors) Next on my hit-list was the skinny linen closet. Like the broom closet I had considered removing this closet from the hallway as well and using the space to expand my daughter's bedroom closet, but it didn't quite lend itself as well to becoming a closet in a different room like the broom closet did. Besides, I had another problem to solve. We had a fair number of books that had no official home. My children's bedrooms didn't have space for bookshelves, so their books just got tossed into their closets with their toys. My husband and I ended up keeping our books in our nightstands (which we were increasingly running out of space). My empty linen closet was looking more and more like a built-in bookshelf. It was a super-simple conversion. The shelves were already in place. I just removed the doors and hardware, filled the holes, and painted the closet interior white. I could have just re-used the existing shelves by painting them white, but I wanted them to come all the way to the edge of the opening, so I bought some slightly wider shelving material, cut new shelves and put them in. The only part that was a little tricky was the bottom. Without addressing the bottom, it did just kind of look like a closet with the doors removed, and I didn't really want to put my books right on the floor. So, I built a 4" kick out of scrap lumber and custom fit the bottom shelf around the closet opening. I eliminated another blank rectangle from my hall, added variety, and solved my book storage problem. Win, win, win. Love it!
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Sometimes you find something that's just perfect for what you need - but, it just needs a slight alteration. Sometimes making that slight alteration yourself can get you exactly what you want, and save you a lot of money. Case in point: I had this apricot fabric on hand, but needed it to be just a couple shades lighter for the ruffled pillow shams I was making. I set out to see if I could fade the fabric myself to the shade I needed. Here's how I went about it: TOOLS & MATERIALS: - Fabric - Rubber gloves - Apron (to protect your clothes) - Bleach - Measuring cup - Bathtub or other large wash basin PROCEDURE: 1) TEST: I mixed 1 cup of bleach with 10 cups of hot water and fully submerged a small scrap of my fabric in the solution for 15 minutes. After the 15 minutes was up, I removed my scrap from the bleach solution, rinsed it thoroughly with cold water, wrung it out in a cloth, and laid it flat to air dry. Once my scrap was dry, I checked it against the rest of my fabric and found that it had worked perfectly, and was just the right colour! If you don't get lucky the first time like I did, leave the scrap in the bleach solution for a longer period of time until you achieve the shade you desire, or increase the amount of bleach in the solution. However, I wouldn't use more than 2 parts bleach to 10 parts water because if the bleach is too strong it can eat away at the fibers of your fabric and decrease it's quality. 2) CUT YOUR FABRIC: I was working with raw fabric, not a finished product (if you are fading a finished product you would just skip this step), so I decided to pre-cut my pieces before fading them. I probably could have just left the fabric in one piece, but I was worried that I would have difficulty fully submerging a larger piece of fabric evenly in the solution (might create air-pockets, or folds that would absorb the solution differently in different spots). My worst fear was that the fabric might fade un-evenly, and would not end up all the same shade, so I took this extra step to try and avoid that. 3) MIX YOUR BLEACH SOLUTION: Using the same recipe from my test, I mixed 1 part bleach to 10 parts hot water in my bathtub. When I was certain that I had it mixed well, I quickly added my pieces of fabric 1 at a time, making sure each individual piece was fully submerged in the solution (if you do it this way, you want to be quick about it so that the first pieces you put in aren't in the solution for too much longer than the last ones). Once all the pieces were submerged, I set my timer for 15 minutes and let it all sit. *Note* If you want everything to be the same, you'll want to do all of your fabric or items in a single batch. Slight variables can make a difference in between batches, so if you want it all to be exactly the same, do it all at once! 4) RINSE: I drained the bleach solution from the bathtub and squeeze out as much of the solution from the fabric as possible. Next, I turned on the shower and rinsed the fabric out under cold running water as well as I could, and squeezed out the excess water from the fabric when I felt it was sufficient. Next I filled the bathtub with cold water (fully submerging the fabric) and swished the fabric around in it for about 10 minutes. Then I drained the water and squeezed out the excess water from the fabric. *Note* I have read that it is a good idea to submerge your fabric or item(s) in a chlorine neutralizer solution before this step to make sure the bleach stops fading and to eliminate the bleachy smell- however I didn't find this to be necessary. 5) DRY: I debated whether or not to just throw my fabric pieces in the dryer, but instead I decided to roll each piece in a towel and air dry them. It probably would've been fine to dry them in the dryer - but again I was worried about uniformity and wanted all the pieces to dry evenly just in case that somehow effected the fading process. When all my pieces were dry I ironed them and proceeded to sew my pillow covers with all my fabric just the right shade!
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