The $50 Cupboard Makeover

Have y'all e'er predicted that a projection volition accept y'all an threescore minutes together with live a total walk inwards the park?

And hence 3 weeks afterward y'all emerge from the cubicle-size infinite that has eaten y'all alive, covered inwards dust together with sweat, together with perhaps fifty-fifty detect a rogue meatball stuck to your sock?

This is the story of our cupboard makeover.

When nosotros moved into this house, I was ridiculously excited over the large walk-in cupboard inwards the main bedroom. Pretty rapidly though, I got sidetracked yesteryear the balance of the house, together with the pathetic cupboard was totally neglected for over 3 years. 

Knowing that this infinite had hence much potential absolutely drove me crazy every fourth dimension I would facial expression at it together with encounter that. As fourth dimension went on, it got to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than cluttered together with but became a infinite that totally stressed me out. 

There was fifty-fifty a betoken where i of the shelves cruel on the ground, every bit if to taunt me, together with I but left it there. 

For 2 months. 

I rationalized that I had plenty of jorts to larn me yesteryear for at to the lowest degree one-half the summer.

And that was the proverbial rock-bottom of my cupboard story. 

Finally (when I ran out of jorts), I decided that plenty was plenty together with that I must rebuild this piffling city.

With $50. 

Seriously, I had $50 for this makeover, hence if y'all are expecting me to Lisa Vanderpump it on this one, accept it downward a notch.

The kickoff measuring was to de-clutter together with take away everything from the closet. If y'all follow me on Instagram or Facebook, y'all may get got seen this picture.

That province of affairs is what I get got been staring at inwards the sleeping accommodation for the yesteryear few weeks.

I spent the kickoff calendar week but taking everything out of the cupboard together with sorting through it. I made 3 piles: a trash pile, a donate pile, together with a continue pile. The continue pile ended upward beingness actually small, together with I've gotta say you. It feels amazing to get got gotten rid of most of our stuff. Clutter actually depletes me of my energy, together with simplifying our cupboard downward to the bare bones feels great.

Once all of our materials was out, I surveyed the infinite together with decided that epitome the cut down together with walls would live the cheapest agency that I could upgrade this blah space.

Also, my striped jewelry corkboard did non thrive every bit good every bit I had hoped. Total bust.

So, I spent the 2d calendar week epitome all of the cut down white (tutorial here) together with epitome the walls a gorgeous blue-green (the same color that I used inwards the master bathroom).

And in i trial once to a greater extent than my beloved for pigment was realized. Painting the cut down together with walls totally transformed this space.

Has anyone else e'er experienced the pocket-sized infinite phenomenon....where the smallest spaces are the most hard to paint? And it makes no sense? I've painted my main sleeping accommodation 3 times together with it took nigh 10% of the fourth dimension that it took to pigment this tiny box of a room. It puzzles me.

After I was done painting, I spent the side yesteryear side calendar week putting it all dorsum together. 

Here is what the cupboard looks similar from the sleeping accommodation (Did y'all encounter final week's post about all my embarrassing mistakes spell decorating this room?) There are 2 doors, i on each side, together with the cupboard goes the length of the room.

Here is what y'all used to encounter when y'all walked into the door on the right.

 After I spent a calendar week removing lxxx tons of men's tshirts. 
Why exercise boys demand hence many tshirts? 

and hither is what it looks similar today!

We kept the 2 long shelves on the long wall, keeping my materials on the correct (pants/handbags on the bottom together with shirts on the top) together with Jesse's materials on the left (pants on the bottom, shirts on the top).

I also seat a unmarried rack on my side, hung close the top, hence that I could hang all of my dresses on it. It's high plenty that I tin fifty-fifty hang my marriage clothing on it. 

What is i supposed to exercise amongst a marriage clothing after the wedding? Have a marriage clothing political party where everyone wears marriage dresses?

Brave men are welcome to attend.

I wanted the cupboard to experience kinda similar a dressing room, hence I added a few extra details. 

I hung a epitome yesteryear my grandmother beneath the dresses. I flora a peachy frame at the relieve yard for $10 together with it was the perfect fit. 

 I beloved having i of her paintings hanging somewhere unexpected, where I tin savor it every unmarried day. 
It makes this infinite hence much to a greater extent than special.

And retrieve the wall I gave upward on?

I decided against rehanging that shelf. We got rid of hence much materials that it was no longer needed. In its place, I hung a pretty mirror (that I found here) to a higher identify the striped bench that I made from an old pianoforte bench.

I also added a furry shag rug. Combined amongst the bench together with mirror, it actually makes this infinite experience to a greater extent than similar a dressing room, together with less similar a closet. 
In normal life, in that location are commonly 2 laundry baskets, i on each side of the bench. Jesse does his laundry. I exercise mine. We are 12 years going strong amongst that magical recipe of laundry equality.

Since I didn't get got a huge budget to piece of occupation out together with purchase all novel arrangement materials with, I decided to organize our materials amongst items nosotros already owned.

I started out yesteryear using all of the same type of hangers, together with organizing yesteryear color.
And hence eventually added these magical little hangers.

Our cupboard has stayed create clean together with organized for almost a total calendar week now. Miracle.

For hanging handbags, I used leftover hooks from this. You tin also purpose shower drapery hooks that y'all tin larn anywhere for nigh $5. 

I used 2 mirrored trays, both from thrift stores, to solid my jewelry. I used i for bracelets together with rings.
I spray painted that i frame blueish awhile back. Not my finest spray pigment moment.

And i for earrings.

I used a coat rack to organize all of Jesse's ties, belts, together with the occasional smelly hat. 

And hence I flora a white plastic shoe rack at Target together with spray painted it chrome silvery to facial expression similar metal.

It's no dream shoe situation, but it's improve than their old home, which was inwards a pile on the floor. 

Also, handy fox I but read nigh the other day. Did y'all know y'all tin purpose puddle noodles to materials inwards your boots together with brand them stand upward up? I'm totally doing that soon.

And that, my friends, is the closet! 
(Complete amongst acute end.)

It was a pocket-sized makeover that took 3 weeks off my life, but ultimately it's been i of the best updates I've made to this house. There's something nigh this infinite that but makes me happy.

If you're feeling overwhelmed nigh where to start, but know that that is totally normal. Closets are overwhelming yesteryear nature. They can't assistance it. Try starting amongst the 3 piles: trash, donate, keep. Take everything out of your cupboard together with seat each item it the pile it belongs in. When the cupboard it empty, facial expression at it every bit a blank canvass together with endeavor to process it every bit y'all would whatever other room. 

Decorate it, pigment it, trip the lite fantastic toe inwards it....doesn't matter.
You'll live glad y'all did!

That's all for today! 'Til side yesteryear side time!

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