Husband is Out of the Closet

I'm so excited to be joining in on the one week design challenge, title above, hosted by the following lovely ladies...

I've been following all of their DIY home design blogs for some time now (Younghouselove.com,BowerPowerBlog.com,stylebyemilyhenderson.com,JoeyandLana.com) and when I heard that the four of them teamed up for this challenge-well, I had to get on board.

What I didn't expect was my husband to get a whiff of my excitement and want to help out.  "Help out" turned a bit into "take over" and has stepped up the project into something much more than what can be accomplished in one week.  Or at least, when you get started Friday night-will not be complete by Monday night.

I digress.  Let's get into the inspiration for this project...

Source: bhg.com via Petra on Pinterest

Oh how I yearn for an organized closet like this one. I have the good fortune to have a pretty large closet all for myself in our spare room, but it is a disaster!

(BEFORE)

Soon after we bought this house and moved in, I had my husband take off the triple, heavy, sliding closet doors and replace them with this white steel rod and shimmery gold curtains I found at a discount linen store.  I have an extra panel of curtain that *we* (husband) have been meaning to make into a transom for filling the gap above the vertical panels, just haven't gotten around to doing so.  So both Thursday night and Friday night, after the babe was laid down to rest, we hashed out our plan.  My plan: to add some boxes to the shelf and have better organization for my jewelry and knick-knacks, and also get objects (like my perfume bottles) up high out of reach from MVP (our active 1 year old, who likes to come into Mommy's closet and pull everything down).  His plan: to completely gut out the entire closet and rebuild it all back up with unfinished lumber, which he can manipulate (with cuts, curves, and routing tools) to his hearts content.  His motivation-my love pouring over.

My Plan-Storage boxes via Target

His Plan-rip out shelves and build fresh ones with plywood

It is really coming along...he is actually still cutting, drilling, installing, and cutting some more as I type out this posting to have it done for tomorrow.  He really wants to meet the deadline tomorrow and I think he'll make it.  Just I won't have my part completed, you know, the painting of the shelves and ofcourse the filling back up of the closet.  Also, I've got further plans to sort through all my stuff and purge purge purge!  Man, I sound like my mother right now.  She's always getting into projects and losing track of time.  My husband laughed when I just read those last two statements to him.  He had just uttered in the same moment "Man, I hate it when home owners leave their furniture in place and you have to work around it" (referring to my dresser) He sounded just like his dad-the general contractor.

testing the strength of his manny-work

So for the next few days, I'm going to be living from my closet on the floor until I can find the time to paint, buy wallpaper, and more boxes, oh-and rope lights (excited about that plan=husband's).

But I will NOT admit DEFEAT!  Oh no, I have a backup project in my Pinterest board:

My mom's crochet purse from her hippiedaiz

 and some silk flowers, wah-lah!