Closet Project

Rachel and I both love our house. It's great, really. But, the top floor which we use as our "master suite" has a lot to be desired. It's all knotted pine, there's only a couple power outlets, the insulation is almost non-existent so it gets cold in the winter and hot in the summer, etc, etc, etc.

One of our least-favorite things about our room is the closet. It's a decent size for two people - a normal depth and at least 8 feet long. The flaw has always been that the only access to it was two tiny doors.

Not only was it hard to reach things not directly in front of the doors, but it was really dark in there, and there were no lights at all.

In the long term we'll be having all the walls removed and replaced with normal drywall. But for now we had a few hours to blow so we decided to see what we could do about this closet.

Since all we wanted was better access, we decided to just cut the wall out from between the doors and then extend that whole another foot or so on both sides. First we tore off all the trim and then used a circular saw to cut the new giant hole in the wall. Then, we took the trim pieces we had demo'd and used them to trim up the new hole.

Overall the final result looks much better then I'd hoped. Suprisingly, it took less than four hours total, including cleanup!