Because this is every girls dream closet...

Said no one. Ever. Yes a nice spacious closet complete with a beautiful pipe and cracked gnarly walls.  This may in fact be the real reason we bought the house. And actually this space is even BIGGER than when we bought the house.

You may recall this beautiful bedroom, a picture of beauty.

Why yes, that is grass cloth wall paper, thank you for noticing. And that big huge chest of drawers? Yeah, that would be hiding the "window" air conditioning unit that was WALLPAPER OVER. Yes, we are not using it anymore, why not cover it in wallpaper versus removing it. Wallpaper will do.

Obviously not much in this room was going to work for us. So instead of removing this wonderful wallpaper we just tore down the walls. And by we I mean we actually paid someone to do this because we were having our hardwood floors redone in 3 days and there is no way we could tackle it in that amount of time and maintain our full time jobs.

So smash, and down came all of the drywall. This actually worked out very well because it allowed us to do a few things:

1. Remove the "window" AC unit (there is a whole house central air unit) and patch the wall
2. Add additional insulation 
3. Widen the closet

All of that for only $500 more than it would have cost to just remove the wallpaper. What a bargin.

I, of course, was initially totally against this. Why should we pay someone for something we are completely capable of doing ourselves. But alas the time crunch won out, and I was sick of sleeping on the floor of the will be office in a mess of all the clothes, dog, and whatever else.

So we were left with this beauty

You may notice that nice wall on the left there. That is just the start of our electrical problems. But more on that later, when were aren't discussing my dream closet.

What to do with that B-E-A-utiful pipe. We talked about boxing it in to look like a nice column. We talked about putting a shoe rack in front of it. I thought of taking a hammer to it. But all of these things A. lost room in the closet and since it's just so ginormous that didn't seem wise, B. Would take more time than it would ever be worth. So we decided to spray paint it black and call it a day. Personally, I was ready to just take the spray paint into the closet and have at it. But Dear Fiance thought that might cause to many fumes and make me nuttier than I already am. So while he removed it and spray painted it outside (amist 30mPh winds), I painted the inside. We went with ceiling white on the inside walls and a nice dark grey on the main back wall.

We put the pipe back in and started to assemble the closet.  The closet was custom designed from The Container Store. It seemed to be the best design to work around that beautiful awkward pipe. Plus they were having a 30% off sale, and really, who can resist a good sale!

Then we stack up the clothes.

Woooo, we now have like 7 less boxes scattered around our bedroom. This doesn't really hold all of our clothes, but it certainly hold our 'go to' items. Next, doors. Drywall for the missing section, a bed, oh and some molding would really help. But at least it no longer looks like this

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