Closets, closets, closets.....

Needs change over time.  That’s just the way of the world, and what was chic and trendy in 1968 – well, not-so-much in 2013.  It’s tired and dated, despite attempts to update it along the way.

Like an 60 year old getting botox and trying to pass for 30.  It may have a slick surface and glowing skin, but the bones and muscles are still 60, and you can only fool folks for so long.  Sometimes, if you’re really going to try to keep up the illusion, you got  to go under the knife and have a full lift and tuck.  And while you’re asleep, “. . . . we may as well.”

The Master Bedroom had always been kind of awkwardly set out.  There were two closets that were adequate by 1968 standards but which were pretty insignificant for today.  Half of the wall on one side of the room was blank because it backed up to the brick fireplace chimney from the basement.  Placement of the door from the hallway into the room meant there was an area about 5 ft wide – to big to waste but not big enough to be useful – behind the door.

All this meant that the room could be set up ONE way.  Which, after 20 years, was also in need of an update. 

So the chance was there, and a decision was made to move the bedroom door from one end of the room to the other.  That also let us put a wider door in, so getting furniture in from the hall will be easier.

 

Oh, and while we’re at it, that also meant there was a logical space to expand one of the closets into a true “walk in” closet to keep from having that same kind of dead space at the other end of the room.  Plus, we could actually have access to the attic through a new port cut into the closet ceiling so there isn’t a need to try to cram someone through a 12” x 14” hole after having ripped all the shelves loose in one of the boys closets.

Whew.  Change is exhausting.  But exciting.