Update on Lighting Project!

I signed a contract for our new house project! I'm still working on the date, but I have a remodeling company coming in to do the following:

• remove 3 lights from our kitchen/seating area/pool table area (i.e. large rectangular room)
• install 13 recessed lights and 3 pendant lights
• patch/prime/paint the ceiling (currently tan- I want it WHITE)
• paint our walk-in hall closet/mud room (currently white - I want it TAN)
• Remove crown molding and install thicker crown in entire room.

That pool table light (and the track lighting in the kitchen and chandelier over the seating area are OUT!)

3 of these will be installed over the sink! (sink below!)

The curtain will be replaced with a bamboo roman shade and the three lights will hang above it. Note that dark ceiling and lack of crown - not for long!

I SO hope they can come and do it next week! I can't wait and think it's going to make a big impact!

Hall Closet... Slowly but Surely

The wine rack is in.

The hooks are put together.

The umbrella stand is put together.

Now we need to hang the two shelves and hang the hooks... then I need to find some accents (galvanized buckets; cubes, etc.)

Maybe tonight? I don't know. My day sucked.

Hall Closet Items...

It's coming together! In the meantime, check out what i'm going to go pick up today at Ikea!

Three of these hook sets - love them! Only $10 each!



Two of these shelves - only $6 each!



Four of these brackets - only $4 each!

One umbrella stand $15

All of these items, as well as a galvanized bucket from Ace Hardware (for shoes) and a few baskets for the shelves will be it! Well, this will be in there, too.

Silver wine rack

I think the black/silver stuff will look good with this wine rack! I, personally, didn't want to have the wine rack in there, but Austin really wanted it in there and he pretty much lets me do what I want when it comes to home decor so I said no problem! :)

Hooks, Hooks and more Hooks

This is... hmmm... not my taste. So ignore the floor, and ignore the bench/basket as these don't make sense for me. However, I like the 2 rows of hooks but here they make sense as they're on horizontal boards. Lucky ducks! These are fancy hooks, too. I think i'm going for more casual hooks. Must keep thinking... this did help though.

Another Closet Idea

Ignore the hat rack, but I want to do something like this. Rack with shelf, space to hang (with hangers or with just hooks), and something on the bottom. Maybe shelves? We can put shoes down there? I dunno - I think this looks nice and clean. (Ikea, of course).

Buckets!

This inspires me to use galvanized buckets - cute, cute! They're officially added to my inspiration board (in progress). :)

Closet Dimensions

I Austin took the measurements! j/k It was Austin. Anyway, it's 41" wide, 64" long and.... ooopsie, didn't write down height. I'll get that. I can't do shelves deeper than 8.5", unless I do them on the back wall. Hmmm not what I had in mind. Must rethink. Sigh. I'm putting way too much time into this...

I Still Need to Measure the Closet...

And the more I think about it the more i'm anti-wine rack. Hmmmm.

My Eyes are Bigger than my Ideas

So.... I worked on the hall closet a lot yesterday. Like... a whole lot. I had tons of ideas (mostly Ikea) and made some pretty solid decisions. I'm all pumped to get home and measure the closet. Austin opens the door and i'm like oh my. He's like what. I'm like in my head this room was HUGE. The ceiling was higher this wall went back farther and so did that one. I'm going to have to make some edits...

Does this happen to you? Are rooms just HUGE in your head and then you're like WTF was I thinking?! LOL

Hall Closet Ideas... wine rack??

So i'm not doing great with this whole closet thing... eek! Oh well - i'm all over it and vow to post every day this week! Anywho - this clearly isn't a closet. But this 'mud room' look is what i'm going for. I LOVE the hanging cubbies with the hooks below it and maybe a shoe rack below it? (not for guests - i'm fine with them having shoes on - but for me and Austin to keep flip flops/old tennis shoes/etc. by the door for when we take Reuben out, etc.). Also, thanks to your comments, I can use this room/the cubbies for:

• Reuben's extra leash/collar; treats for downstairs
• A beach bag filled with towels/sun screen for when we go across the street
• Two blankets (for when we sit outside - like to watch TV like the other weekend)
• Some sweatshirts (for again, outside)
• Tennis rackets/tennis balls (yes, I want to start playing again and it's cooling off and the court is across the street - i'm in!
• Toilet paper (for the guest bath)

Also, when we were in Birmingham Austin's mom offered us these wine racks. She had 3 - two big and one smaller. Austin liked the idea of having the smaller one in there. I'm open to it -what do you think? It looks JUST like this one - i'd say it's about 4' tall:

October 2009: The Month of Closets

Yes, you heard it here first. Nursery month is officially over and closet month is just now getting started! Why closet month? Well, first of all, closets rock hard. They do. AND one of my goals this month (per my fittingbackin blog) is to clean out the hall closet (downstairs near front door). I envision it empty, but with matching hangers, shelves, hooks, etc. - for guests? I dunno! I need to see what's out there so I'll know EXACTLY what to get and how it will look once I install what I get. I think this has been my reluctance with getting started on this project - not knowing what I want the final results to look like. So, let the games begin!! A few things to note:

• Our hall closet is a walk-in closet.
• It currently has one shelf/rod at the far back.
• That's about it!

Things I want it to be able to do:

• store guest jackets (long space)
• store guest purses (shelves? cubbies?)

I think that's it? Maybe have additional hidden storage? I dunno... am I missing something? What else are they supposed to do?