Happy wife, happy life! Our family had no intention of moving this year, but with a 2-year-old and a new Aupair, our old house suddenly felt much smaller. Cue new home. When we found our new residence, the former owner had already done a ton of upgrades to the property, but we wanted to put our own personal touch on the house to make it our home.
Now that we are finished with our home improvement projects and all moved in, I am excited to share some of our "upgrades" with you! It's home improvement month on All Of The F-Words! This month I will be sharing with you the projects that we took on and the process to make them happen along with before and after photos!
First up, our master closet!
Much to my surprise, when we were setting our budget for these home projects Dallas brought up that we could use more closet space in our master bedroom. Luckily, we also had a fairly large room off the master bathroom that we were baffled by.
What did the old owners use it for? And what would we use it for? Was it a sitting room? Workout room? Office? Closet? We had no idea. The room was rectangular with sloped ceilings on both sides, making it a challenging space to build anything in, to say the least.
Dal's sister (who is a professional celebrity stylist) had her studio closet done a few years ago by California Closets and he suggested we call around to get a few quotes.
I met with 3 local designers from different companies to discuss our perplexing space and work out some ideas. I knew two things. I needed hanging/drawers/shelf space and I needed to stay in our budget. (Especially if I wanted to complete our other home projects.)
The quotes were all so different but I loved that some of the things that were important to us, like soft close drawers, were included in our California Closets quote. (This is where things were getting pricy with other companies.)
California Closet's designer Morgan Haynie met me at our home one chilly afternoon. She came prepared with a warm smile, tape measure, and hardware for us to choose from. As we started to discuss our ideas vs what was actually possible in our vacant space our vision started to come to life.
Morgan did an amazing job "getting creative" while reworking our wants to fit the space we had, in the parameters of our budget. She took measurements and in a few days, we had a digital mockup of what our closet layout would look like, complete with a window seat. (I wish I could take credit for that but it was all Morgan's idea.)
California Closets took our space from this:
To this:
California Closets did such an amazing job making our space warm and functional that I decided to make our dream closet my office too!
Sidebar: This was right around the time that sharing an office with Dallas started to become difficult. Love him (mean it), but I am too type A to work in his office and share a desk.
After a challenging start, this space came to have a personality all of its own. We later added a coffee bar and art to our now "Cloffice" and it feels like home!
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