Walk-In Closet Progress, An Apology, and A Maniac

I wish to begin in the present day’s put up by issuing a public apology to my mother. 🤣 In Friday’s put up, I discussed that she had instructed me to color stripes on the ends of my island, and I mentioned that we didn’t discuss in regards to the particulars of the stripes, so I simply went with the overall thought of “stripes in colours from the wallpaper” and did this mockup and credited the thought to her.

So I’d wish to take this chance to supply a public apology to my mother for misrepresenting her artistic thought and impugning her artistic imaginative and prescient and creative eye. After which yesterday after church, I noticed that I had missed an e mail from my mother the place she issued a public assertion. Oh my gosh, y’all. I used to be laughing so onerous I had tears streaming down my face. However as per my mother’s needs, I’ll put up her public assertion right here…

Oh my goodness!!!  These stripes are positively NOT what I had envisioned!  They draw all consideration away from the wallpaper.  Speak about CLASH!!!  My first alternative was darkish blue with a white prime.  I solely urged stripes since you have been so decided to make use of pink.  I believed giant darkish blue stripes with small and even tiny pink stripes.  Your footage and mockups don’t appear to indicate how very giant that island is.  If you happen to paint it pink, it’s going to scream “LOOK AT ME” while you stroll in moderately than directing the attention to the wallpaper.  I feel darkish blue would make the wallpaper pop.  However it’s your home, and you’ve got the correct to be flawed.  😊

🤣🤣 So once more, Mother, I problem this public apology to you. (She did need me to emphasise that that is all in good enjoyable. We now have a really enjoyable relationship, and we joke round loads about our artistic variations and differing opinions.)

So with that behind us, I do have a strong plan. However I didn’t get as far with it as I had hoped this weekend as a result of…nicely…I’ll get to that. However right here’s what I did get performed.

First, I acquired the ft on the island moved out. If you happen to’ll bear in mind, I had hooked up the ft earlier than including all the trim. And I made the error of not accounting for the trim after I marked and measured the position for the ft. So as soon as the trim went on, the ft have been barely noticeable.

So whereas my buddy was nonetheless on the town, I had her and my mother assist me flip the island over on its prime in order that I might transfer the ft. Since I had glued them on with wooden glue, I had to make use of my Dremel Multi-Max to get them off. Then I lower six items of 1/2-inch plywood to connect to the underside in order that the ft may very well be moved out sufficient for the reason that trim caught up 1/2-inch from the plywood base.

With these plywood items offering a stage space with the trim, I used to be then capable of measure, mark, and drill the brand new holes for the ft.

After which I re-attached them (once more, utilizing wooden glue) about 1/4″ from the sting of the trim.

And with that, it regarded so a lot better and extra balanced. You may truly see the ft now.

And now the ft may be clearly seen from all 4 sides of the island.

After that, I spent fairly a little bit of time on the highest. I sanded it down fully to get that reddish pink paint off, after which sanded all the way down to 220-grit to get it as clean as doable. I additionally crammed in that deep groove within the trim across the edge with wooden filler all the best way round and sanded it clean. Since I’m going to color it to seem like a really mild marble, I didn’t need that deep groove as a result of that’s sort of a lifeless giveaway that it’s wooden trim. With out that deep groove, it appears extra like an actual edge profile that you simply would possibly see on actual marble. After which I acquired it primed and sanded all the way down to 220-grit in order that it’s as clean as doable.

Simply with these two adjustments, it appears so a lot better. Despite the fact that the highest is simply primer proper now, I really like the brightness that the white provides to the room.

I’ll perform a little bit extra sanding to verify the corners are as seamless as doable on that edge trim, after which I hope to get the highest completed in the present day.

I additionally acquired all ten drawer bins painted. I hadn’t deliberate on portray them, however I very clearly purchased the flawed plywood to make my drawer bins. I mistakenly purchased a 1/2-inch plywood that’s primed on one aspect and veneer on the opposite. I didn’t understand I used to be shopping for a primed plywood. However the veneer aspect doesn’t seem like veneer, both. It doesn’t have that pure heat brown shade that plywood usually has. I imply, it did after I purchased it, however because it sat in my workshop, it developed this vintage (yellowed) white shade, which is fairly ugly. So I made a decision to color the within of all the bins white. That was a time-consuming and unplanned step on this island venture, however I didn’t need these yellowish drawer bins.

After which, moderately than utilizing wallpaper on the ends of the drawer bins, I made a decision to simply paint them a enjoyable shade. I searched via my stash of paint and located this one which I believed would work. That is Behr Watermelon Punch, and it’s one of many 15 colours I used on the house gymnasium partitions. I feel it’ll be a pleasant punch of shade when the drawers are open. I solely painted the ends as a result of the backs gained’t present, and the fronts shall be coated with drawer fronts.