Guest Bedroom Closet

Introduction

Our house has a lack of closets. In our entire house there are 2 real closets, a coat closet by the front door and a closet in the guest bedroom. Right away Nikki claimed the guest bedroom closet as her own leaving me to walk to front door to get my cloths. That being said the guest bedroom closet was no gem. Its not even 16" deep, had on closet rod that ran the depth of the closet rather than the length (about 16"), has plaster just falling off the walls, and has the gas furnance exhaust chimey going up half of it. Saying that this closet is less than ideal or is poorly laid out is an understatment. We needed to do some serious rework to get the closet back in shape.

Step 1: Planning

First and foremost Nikki wanted more hanging space for cloths. We decided to run 2 closet rods (yes two) lengthwise in the closet. The closet has 10' ceilings just like the rest of the first floor so its time to put that height to use. We also decided we wanted a shelf just above each closet rod. This is probably going to be our primary linen closet... and by primary I mean only linen closet. The top shelf should suffice for this.

So we knew how we were going to hang cloths but what should we do about the gas furnace's exhaust chimney? After much though we decided to build a false wall over the chimney complete with a recessed shoe rack.

To top it all off we thought we would like to have some sort of light source in the closet. That shouldn't be so hard should it?

Step 2: The Shoe Rack

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