Mayfly: the new closet rocks

Hello, friends! Hope you are well.

I mentioned last week what we've been working on. A strange sitting room dangles off our bedroom. I suppose it was a sitting room, but for us it was a junk magnet room. It's cold in the winter and hot in the summer and we had the brilliant idea to close it off and make it a walk-in closet. A big FANCY closet.

It's so nice. I'm going to put thin curtains on the closet side of the French doors, so you don't see all the stuff, but for now, we're just enjoying standing outside admiring our work. And by our work, I mean Brian's. (kiss, kiss.) My only official job was to make and hang curtains to keep the direct sunlight from fading our clothes. So... thanks, mom for delivering your old curtains and rod, totally perfect in size and ready to hang. (hug, hug.)

I've never been so excited to put away laundry or get dressed in the morning. Oh, and I haven't had a full length mirror for a couple of years. Why didn't anyone tell me my jeans are almost all too short?!

Comments

And how spoiled do you feel? This is great!!!

Posted by: Eren | April 15, 2008 1:47 PM

Oh. I'm green over here. How incredibly cool.

Posted by: miss chris | April 15, 2008 2:02 PM

hello you fancy pants {your pants are not too short!}
that is gorgeous. it's like a whole other room!

Posted by: hrsj | April 15, 2008 2:11 PM

fanatastic solution to the space! we re-fitted our closet with a custom built-in that we designed and built a couple of years ago...funny how the once mundane tasks of laundry and keeping a closet now seem like fun! that is funny about the mirror...i didn't have one 3 out of the 4 years we lived here...i would check the top half in the bathroom vanity mirror and the bottom half in the reflection of my car :^)

Posted by: coronita | April 15, 2008 3:18 PM

did you hear that pop?

it was my head exploding from jealousy.

so nice, alicia.

Posted by: melissa f. | April 15, 2008 3:49 PM

I am very jealous, what a great use of space! :-)

Posted by: Suzi | April 15, 2008 3:54 PM

Yea for you A! That looks like such a great space!

Posted by: Rachel | April 15, 2008 4:19 PM

perfect! what a wonderful treat!

Posted by: stephanie | April 15, 2008 4:25 PM

congratulations! it looks fantastic! what wouldn't i give for a closet like that...
enjoy!

Posted by: Veronica TM | April 15, 2008 4:47 PM

wow! i am so jealous. what a wonderful treat for you!

Posted by: amy | April 15, 2008 5:18 PM

GREAT closet, Alicia!! I'm totally jealous.

(I am LOLing at your pants being short. I know what you mean. A mirror can really be a good tool.)

Posted by: lera | April 15, 2008 6:10 PM

I am so jealous! I want to move into that closet right now!

Posted by: Sea | April 15, 2008 6:34 PM

My husband and I ran a B&B for a few years and our entire apartment wasn't that big! It looks wonderful! I hope you enjoy it. Your husband must be VERY handy!

Posted by: Liz | April 15, 2008 7:48 PM

OH MY, that looks so wonderful!!! I wish we had those wonderful hidden/charming spaces in our house. A ranch just doesn't lend itself to creative I guess.
Time for a fashion show!

Posted by: Beth H | April 16, 2008 7:18 AM

Oh wow, that's awesome!!

Posted by: beki | April 16, 2008 8:11 AM

woo hoo! what a great thing!

Posted by: erin | April 16, 2008 12:31 PM

man. my whole house is a junk magnet.

and your husband is the BEST. really, he is.

Posted by: capello | April 16, 2008 3:02 PM

oh!!! that is so fantastic!!! i love the space..........and how clever you two are!!!

Posted by: leslie | April 16, 2008 4:12 PM

Wow, that looks great... nice work!!!

Posted by: Jennifer | April 16, 2008 4:41 PM