aka, “the quickest project we’ve ever done”
When we were working on our second floor project, we only planned on demolishing the ceiling of our linen closet, and not the walls. Ugh, the linen closet ceiling was so gross (we imagine they all looked like this under the paint):
The walls in the linen closet didn’t actually have any damage from animal droppings (surprisingly), however, they still smelled BAD – from old cedar shelving. In fact, the smell was transferring to the linens I kept in there. So, hey, why not demolish all those walls and put in new walls and shelving? (that was when I discovered the walls had sheets of drywall between the studs… that’s odd…)
We painted Kilz on the studs and back of the drywall,
and contractors put the drywall up and primed it a few weeks ago. Then we put a door on it and closed it until we had time to install shelving yesterday!
We used the Rubbermaid wire shelf system from Menards (I wish me mentioning Menards meant this was a sponsored post and they gave me that stuff, but unfortunately, that is not the case – we buy everything). Steven installed a hang track in the top of the closet, and hung standards from it (those aren’t attached to the wall),
put the brackets in,
then cut the shelves to size and put caps on the end,
and voila!
Yep… so this is a post about our linen closet. Boring for you, but exciting for me that our house is coming back together and I can put that stuff where it belongs!!! We might upgrade this system in the future, but it’s perfect for now.
If you made it this far, here is a bonus (unrelated) picture of Data and CK!
I can totally appreciate a nice linen closet! Very cool system in that you can adjust the height of the shelves over time, if you end up with something exceptionally tall. I haven’t had a true linen closet since our first house in California, and I miss it, still.
Yeah, I am excited we can change the height as we use it more! We decided to just leave all the shelves evenly spaced for now 🙂
What do you use for a linen closet? We have most of the linens in plastic bins in our storage room, still, cause this one is quite a bit smaller than our old one!
We ended up building shelves into the closet of our guest room for linens and other storage (like photo albums). Cleaners go under all of the sinks, along with TP. Our Sam’s Club amount of paper towels are in the garage. Nothing ideal, but you work with what you have.
That sounds like a good workaround! I bet it took awhile to remember where everything goes though, right?
Were they not common for the year your house was built?
Our house was built in 1999/2000, so they were common, but the builder opted to do some changes to the floorplan (this was before we bought the house – we found it on the tail end of the build). No coat closet, but my master closet was bigger as a result. I think that’s what they did in regard to the linen closet, too – made one of the bedroom closets bigger. Maybe they just didn’t want to buy more doors, I don’t know. 😉
Ahh, gotcha! That could be why!!!
Very cool closet transformation 🙂
Look at that sweet little baby CK!