We have an amazingly spacious downstairs closet with far more storage space in it than the entire backhouse had that we lived in when we first got married. It is so wonderful and definitely one of the many things we love about our home.
But, we weren’t exactly using the space very efficiently. It is the home of all our shoes. The space under the stairs, at the back of the closet, stores things like camping supplies and toilet paper and paper towels that we buy in bulk. We regularly had to climb over all our shoes to get the vacuum out and many of our shoes were getting beaten-up from being stored in a Tupperware box. I got fed up and decided it was time for a closet makeover.
I started by painting a base coat with a creamy shade of bluish teal that I found in the Martha Stewart line. Once that had completely dried, I made a grid by hanging yarn, and drew out my stripes. If you look closely, you can see my pencil marks.
After my stripes were drawn, I removed the yarn, taped them off and painted the stripes in a lighter shade of blue. The chevron stripes are not complicated to make, but they are a bit time (and tape) consuming.
Once the paint had dried for about an hour and a half, I removed the tape to find beautiful, clean chevron stripes.
I also found a great, 50 pair shoe rack at Target. We shopped around and found a light at Home Depot to hang in the back doorway. We had to have an electritian come and install a plug in the closet. Turns out the electrical outlet wasn’t too complicated to add because there was a kitchen outlet on the other side of that wall. DH installed that light and the coat hooks you can see on the back wall. Now, we have a beautiful, well-organized, well-lit, useful and efficient downstairs closet. I love it!
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