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- [Vicki] Welcome to Mother Daughter Projects.
I'm Vicki, I'm staying in my newly made over closet.
Early this year, I found this pin on Pinterest,
and an inspired this whole thing!
So come with me and I'll share all the things
that I did in this closet,
to make it beautiful and functional for me.
This closet was long overdue for a makeover:
I never liked the wire shelving in here,
there wasn't enough shoe storage,
and it was cluttered with stuff
that didn't need to be in there.
It was a great day when I started to remove
all that wire shelving.
There are a lot of screws
holding this wire shelving in place.
Little plastic holders are right side up, and upside down,
making it a little tricky to easily get these out.
I used a variety of tools
to get the connectors out of the wall.
Including this small pry bar.
I use needle nose pliers to remove those plastic anchors.
Once all the hardware was removed,
it was time to fill in the holes.
I used a paint scraper to be sure
the area was free of any high points,
and then moved on to spackling the holes.
I'm going to be adding three dressers in here.
I want them to sit flush against the back wall,
so we needed to remove the baseboard.
Steph scored the cork line, and then we pried it off
with pry bar and cleaned up the area.
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The three dressers I used
were originally in Steph's childhood bedroom.
I had previously painted one,
and had been using it as a nightstand.
I painted the other two off cameras,
you can find a link to that painting video below.
With the dressers and place,
we can now add rods for hanging clothes.
Here's Steph is finding the studs,
for the placement of the shelf rod brackets.
Since she was drilling into a stud,
there was no need for plastic anchors.
We use a level to be sure the pair
were placed at the same height.
She repeated the process with the second bracket.
We bought a board, create a shelf,
which I painted off camera.
The closet pole we bought, was a little long.
So Steph took it out to the garage
and cut it with a circular saw,
fit it with a metal cutting blade;
It cut like butter.
The thing I disliked about the previous metal shelving
was it didn't allow clothes to slide along a rod.
This new system eliminates that issue.
Since this rod will not have the addition of a shelf,
we are using this pole socket set,
which is screwed into the wall on each side of the pole.
On the other side,
we cut the pole a little shorter and added another bracket.
This will allow room for dresses.
We are adding wall control
to the opposite end of the closet
for shoe storage and storage for stuff
that would ordinarily be stored
in the bathroom medicine cabinet.
Team work always makes hanging the panels quick and easy.
One holds a panel, the other mark the screw hole placement.
Holes are drilled for the wall anchors,
while anchors are gently tapped into place
with a rubber mallet,
and the panels are screwed in the place.
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We couldn't wait to start adding the shelving.
Actually doing that helped us to figure out,
if we wanted to add two more regular sized panels,
or use a single horizontal one.
The single panel won out.
The single panel is hung the same way,
as the senior size panels.
This wall control accessory may be my favorite.
It's a little odd for a closet,
but it was a must have for me.
It's a paper towel holder,
which will now free up space on my bathroom counter.
We added two rails which become
hanging space for flannel shirts, belts and more.
Here I'm adding the spring clips to the rail,
which actually for two storage.
But I found worked for hang flannel shirts without damage.
These clips just screw into place.
The rails are put back in the place,
and tested to see if they work as I thought.
On the adding the wall hung shoe storage,
we are using galvanized metal pegboard strips
that are actually painted in the same white
uses for the closet shelf
on the opposite side of the closet.
We marked the placement, drilled holes added the anchors,
and screwed the strips in the place.
We added four standard slotted hooks to each strip.
Each strip will hold two pairs of shoes.
We hung the shoes to determine where to place the next row.
Back out in the garage,
we cut plywood to create a countertop
to put over the three dressers.
We attach the front edge with glue and a few Brad Nails.
Off camera, the countertop was primed
and then painted with the same color as the closet walls.
To get ready for the epoxy finish,
we protected the area and had TYVECK tape
to keep the edges clean.
This is our first time to use total boat tabletop epoxy.
The one-to-one mixing ratio can not have been easier pro tip
buy some plastic measuring cups at the dollar store to
mix the epoxy.
Thoroughly mix following the instructions.
We first poured a very thin coat and spread it
with these Harbor freight plastic spreaders.
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And now for the bling!
And yes, I separated out the black flecks
from the rest, tedious, but also quite relaxing.
This is RUST-OLEUM decorative colored chips
in the glacier gray blend,
the chips are actually used on garage floors.
I first sprinkle on a light layer of very fine chips.
This kitchen wire mesh strainer was a perfect tool for this.
The front edge was a little hard to get the specs onto.
So I blew them into place which actually worked quite well.
The larger flakes were tossed into the air to
create a random pattern, that was fun.
We did a few more layers
of a epoxy waiting 6 to 12 hours between each coat.
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- We use the heat gun remove any lingering air bubbles.
Can I just say, I just love how this turned out.
TYVECK tape is waterproof and very slick,
so it's great to protect the edge from getting dry
epoxy drips on it.
Well, after living with the closet for awhile
I decided I wanted to raise the dressers to counter height
just like I have in my bathroom.
To do that we created a base with two by sixes
that are glued and nailed together.
With the base completed now painted
with the closet wall color we moved it into place.
It was awkward to work in this small space, but we made it.
We moved the dressers in to place.
The dressers are not attached
to the base and we're a tipping hazard
until the wood Hutch and countertop were put into place
which weighed everything down.
In keeping with the use what we have nature of
this makeover, we repurpose this
old mid-century former shelf into a back splash
of sorts, to bring a natural warm element into the space.
We deconstructed it and cut it to size.
We are using another element of the old piece
as a top ledge.
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We cut a couple of pieces
from what were the legs of this old piece.
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We're adding them to the open spaces to make a sort
of ledge reigning on this wood is amazing.
We glued those pieces into the holes
and then we glued and screwed the top ledge into place.
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Off-camera. I did stain both the ledge
and the blocks, larger back page just got cleaned.
Here we are attaching one half
of the French cleat to the back of the board.
So hang this on the wall, right above the countertop.
We added that wood at the bottom
as a spacer so that the piece would hang flat on the wall.
The other half of the French cleat was attached to the wall,
all done and now time to decorate.
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What we learned:
well, the biggest thing was I lived with
this closet for a while after I basically finished
everything I wanted and because I lived with it,
there were a few things I decided I wanted to
change about this and the first thing
was the actual countertop.
Now, when I first did that
the edge was not exactly what I wanted.
I was really going to be okay with it.
And Steph's like, mm, you need to change that.
So I did take it back to the garage.
Did the whole, not the whole thing, but the edge over it.
And I'm so glad that I went ahead
and took that extra step to do it.
Cause I love the way it turned out.
The next thing was the height of my dressers.
Now these are just standard dressers and they're fairly low.
And I decided after, after folding clothes and towels
on here, that I wanted those to be counter height.
So that's the reason why they're raised up six inches.
So it makes it much easier to fold things,
it makes it much easier to put things away,
and it was a perfect solution,
And I absolutely love that.
Again that was another step that we had to take
but I I'm very happy with the way that it turned out.
Another thing was, I live with the wall control
for awhile and I actually absolutely love it.
I love the shoe storage.
That's one of my favorite things.
I love having the, the shelves where I can put medicines
and sundries and things like that.
I had one extra panel and I didn't think I was gonna use it.
But after again, after living with
I decided I'm gonna go ahead and put that up.
I have more shoe storage and I can put my jewelry on it.
So all in all I live with the space
I found some things that worked
some things that didn't work and improved on those.
And now I have a very bright
and functional space that I really, really enjoy.
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Oh whew it's big, its a little higher than
I thought it was going to be!
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Is it too high? I don't know if I like that.
It's to big, it's too tall.
Oh, I know why, because we raised it 6 inches.
(Laughs)
- Okay. So we will not be using that right there
because there's a way to tall.
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