in love with our Closet

We can now say our closet is complete and, we love it!  It's so warm and cozy and FULL.  I had no idea how much stuff we I had.  I take up about 90% of the closet.  Poor Jer only has a rod and a half worth of clothes.  Although I have to say, in my defense, he never lets me buy things for him.  :)  The one and only bad thing in re-organizing our closet is Jer has put me on a spending freeze for clothes and shoes.  We loaded 20-30 pairs of shoes that I no longer wear or want into a box, and the remaining shoes still barely fit on our new expansion of my shoe shelves he built.  Eeekk.  Anyway, did I say how much we love the way our new closet is organized?!  Well, we do!  :)  Last night we were in awww.  We had a vision, I drew it up and he built it.  It's nice to have such a smart and crafty husband.  We work well together.  :-)  Now, on to the before, during and afters.

BEFORE (when our closet seasonal rod fell one day)

DURING

more shoe shelving

adding clothing cubbies 

chandelier I found on Craigslist for 25 bucks!  it was a tarnished green color with lamp shades in great condition.  we painted it with our favorite Rustoleum brown.

we used Home Depot's Fossil Grey paint - color matched with Behr paint 

and, of course, we had to have some play time with our main man 

I painted and Jer caulked.

AFTER

those cabinets on the floor will hold our "dirty clothes"

AFTER

our chandelier!  Its what makes the closet feel cozy. 

up close picture of our paint color. 

We love our closet but we are sooo glad this project is done!  However, we have many more projects coming.  Hopefully they won't take as long as this one did.  :)

What do you guys think?

Happy closet living, 

~Jeni

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