CLAW.ZET.OFF.ISSS

Our new apartment has 3 closets and only 1 bedroom, and I hated the idea of making part of my dining room (something I’ve never had before) into my office.  So, with a little inspiration from Anna over at Door Sixteen, I made our large closet in the living room into a closet office!

Here’s what it looked like before:

And here’s what I did, with lots of help from my hubby (and a friendly worker in the Home Depot lumber department):

I’m not really sure what I’ll put on the walls – a shelf?  Picture rail w/ framed photos?  I haven’t even begun to really unpack that stuff so I’ll figure it out.  Here’s what it looks like without the chair:

Don’t those beautiful dark-stained doors just look pretty?  It’s like a window into what this apartment once was, you know, before the 8 layers of sloppily-painted muck on the walls.  And I’m excited to get to finally unpack my office stuff with all the built-in shelving:

I originally was hoping to get a nice piece of natural wood, but the sizes were so weird, and this melamine-laminated wood came in the EXACT depth I needed, we just had to have Home Depot cut the length down for us.  Easy-Peasy.  Not so easy to mount the brackets (or to find the studs with a sort-of-not-working stud finder, but we managed.  Still have a little bit of work to do – figure out where to keep cords, paint the white trim at the bottom, etc.

But my closet-office dream has come true.  And I am HAPPY. :-)