A Place for Everything

When I first toured this house a little more than a year ago it was quite apparent that storage would be an issue.

There aren’t enough cabinets in the kitchen, the walk-in closet in the master bedroom is ok but not large by any means, and the two guest room closets are average at best. Other than that there is a small storage room where the furnace is located, another area above the small guest bathroom and a very small coat closet in the main room.

That’s it.

Having moved from a five bedroom house with an additional storage/work room that is the size of two bedrooms combined, the storage here seems especially minuscule.

Since moving in here one of my top priorities has been to increase that storage space. I added shelving in all of the closets and one of the kitchen cabinets, built storage into the daybed I wrote about in my previous post, and now I have just finished a large cabinet in the unfinished bathroom in the basement.

The bathroom is four feet wide and a little over 10 feet deep. The plumbing is in place for a bathroom but has yet to be added, one of my future projects.

With showers in both the master and guest bathrooms, I decided I needed storage space much more than I needed a third shower, so I closed in the area where the shower would have been located in the basement bathroom.

At four feet wide and just less than two feet deep, the cabinet provides a lot of additional storage space.

I stained it the color of the lighter shade I used on the basement flooring. I continue to learn how much difference there can be in the color of stain depending on what kind of wood is used. The interior of the cabinet is made of finished plywood and the stain is much darker than the trim on the outside and doors. And the trim is slightly darker than the basement floor.

The glass in the doors is made from plexiglass painted with spray paint. The streaking effect was done simply by spraying the glass in long strokes. It gives it texture and provides a translucent appearance.

I do have to finish that bathroom yet and the cabinet will look more finished once the room is finished as well. But first, I have other projects that must be tackled… like even more storage.

I have four projects left before I’ll have completed the initial list of projects I made when I bought the house. Those four projects are two additional storage cabinets in the basement, finishing the front of the fireplace and the adding railing around my office loft.

Next up is that fireplace.