The Nursery Closet

This weekend we tackled the closet.  While Daniel was studying yesterday, I went to Lowe's and got all the cuts of wood we needed.  There was a nice, patient employee there who made EIGHT cuts of wood for me so that I wouldn't have to mess with the table saw at home.  Blessed man.  Unfortunately, I told him the longest cut of wood I needed was 64 1/4" when it was actually 66 1/4" and that tiny error resulted in my needing to purchase a whole lot of extra wood.



I can't believe that after all this careful calculating, I made that mistake.  Oh well.  Live and learn, as they say. 



This was my plan for the closet:



And here are photos of the "before" and the progress.













Daniel suggested we use the brad nailer to put most of it together, which turned out to be a brilliant, time-saving (and energy-saving) plan.



Caulking turned out to be more time-consuming than I thought.  I think we finished up at about 8:30 PM.



 

 

I am proud of what we accomplished in one day!  We were exhausted by the end.   



Today was paint day.



I didn't participate due to the highly volatile organic compounds in the paint, but Ginnie came over to help Daniel, and they knocked out the first coat.

The closet is now almost finished!  My plan is to purchase some of these Ikea Drona cubbies to put on a couple of the shelves.

 
 I will update with more photos once I get the closet settled!