DIY Walk-In Closet Progress, Week Four (Paint Color Selection, Closet Rods, Clothes Hamper Issue, And More)
I’m coming to the end of week four on my DIY walk-in closet project, and I feel like I didn’t get as much done this week as I did in prior weeks. Part of that is because I spent a lot of this week just trying to decide on a paint color.
And then after comparing the two and giving it a lot of thought, I finally decided to go with blue. So yesterday, I headed to Sherwin Williams and grabbed six more paint colors to test out. From top to bottom, these are (1) Open Air, (2) Billowy Breeze, (3) French Moire, (4) Sleepy Hollow, (5) Sleepy Blue, and (6) Jetstream.
In yesterday’s post, I had mentioned Faded Flaxflower, but I ruled it out immediately when I saw it in person because it has very definite purple undertones. I also ruled out Moonmist immediately because it was too light for my taste. But these six all seemed like good contenders.
I also realized that I should select paint colors from Sherwin Williams more. Their colors just hit differently. And their paint is excellent quality. I’ve always shopped for paint colors at Home Depot just because I’m there all the time, and it’s so convenient. But I’ll be heading to Sherwin Williams more often for paint in the future. Here’s a look at the Home Depot blues on the left, and the Sherwin Williams blues on the right.
Anyway, I won’t keep you in suspense. I’m going with the second color, Billowy Breeze, which looks amazing with the teals that I have in the house. It almost looks like a much lighter version of my kitchen cabinet color. It was my immediate favorite, even before I got all six samples painted on the cabinets. I went ahead and did all six just to be sure, though. But I already had my heart set on Billowy Breeze.
In other news, after deciding to carry the wallpaper into the laundry area and the back wall of the closet, I had to order two more rolls. I was afraid that waiting for those might hold up progress because my first order took about two months to get here. But that was over the holidays at the end of the year, so these arrived much faster. They got here yesterday, so as soon as I get these cabinets painted, I’ll be ready to install wallpaper!
My closet rods also arrived. I went with these oval shaped brushed gold closet rods (affiliate link), and they’re beautiful! These have great customer ratings. I went with oval because I thought the oval shape might make them stronger and wouldn’t require center supports (at least, that made sense in my mind 😀 ).
The finish is really beautiful. It’s called matte brass on the product listing, but it’s not as bright as it looks on the product listing. I was kind of thankful for that, to be honest. They’ll cut it to the exact size you need, but I didn’t know my exact sizes at the time I ordered them. So I’ll be using my miter saw to cut them myself. I think these are going to be beautiful against the blue cabinets.
I’ve decided to order to more for my necklace storage. I finally made myself sit down and think through all of the details about my necklace storage and jewelry (ring and earrings) drawer that will have the glass top. I had been putting that off because I was focused on all of the big stuff in the closet, but the glass-top drawer will require tempered glass cut to a custom size, and I needed to go ahead and get that ordered. I ended up ordering 1/4-inch clear tempered glass from One Day Glass, which I found after searching for tempered glass online. The 1/4-inch-thick piece of tempered glass cut to 42″ x 14 3/4″ cost $83.15 with shipping.
Regarding those cabinets that flank the doorway, I’ve decided to leave the doors off. But that means that my plan for storing my step ladder in the right cabinet won’t work. I wanted to see if I could go back to my original idea, but instead of putting the step ladder to the right of the laundry hampers, I put it on the left in the corner. It does stick out a bit, but since it’s in the corner, I think it looks just fine!
But in order to test out my idea and test out the measurements, I had to unbox the other laundry hamper. And I have another problem, as you can see. The two laundry hampers are slightly different colors. Ugh. I don’t want to send them back, so I need to come up with a solution to make them look the same color. Either I need to stain the lighter one, or I need to bleach the darker one. I haven’t decided which option I’ll test out.
So here’s where the walk-in closet project stands as of this morning as I’m closing out week four of the project. I added the corbels to the two end cabinets since those will stay open, but I still need to sand them. I have wood filler on all the nail holes in all of the trim, but I’ve only gotten half of it sanded so far. I’m still reworking the shelves in the two end cabinets, and I hope to get those finished today.
And then I need to focus on priming, caulking, and painting.
So there has been progress this week, but at the same time, I feel like I’m at the same point I was at last Friday when I had hoped to get the priming, caulking, and painting done last weekend. *Sigh* I’m trying not to be too hard on myself. Last Friday, I didn’t have any of the molding installed, and now I do. And then I decided to add corbels, which took time. And I just need to be patient and work diligently. This is, after all, the biggest build I’ve ever done.
But at the same time, for my own mental wellbeing and motivation, I need to start seeing some of the big items checked off of my list. Now that I have my paint color selected, and I won’t be distracted with that over the weekend, I’m hoping I can stay focused and make some great progress on this project!
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
