So Much Work for Something Nobody Will See

I forgot to take photos of our Master Bedroom closet before Art started working on the shelves. (Just in case anybody is wondering, one white laundry basket is for lights, the other for darks. The blue is for everyday stuff that I let my mom wash. We won't give her clothes that would look funny with a U at the bottom from hanging on the clothes line. I could do a whole post on mom and her laundry obsession routine.)

It was a lot more work than I thought it was going to be. We bought 2 higher grade 4' X 8' plywood sheets thinking at the time that it would be nice to have the shelves show off its natural color.

It was then I realized that I would need to sand, varnish, sand, varnish, sand and varnish again each shelf, top and bottom. I also had to repaint the interior of the closet since it got dinged as the shelves were being fitted. It was easier to do the sealing of the shelves than the kitchen door since I could use a water based polyurethane. I also had to use an iron to seal the front of the plywood with a wood veneer strip.


However, I love the shelves now that it's done... in the master bedroom. It feels smoooooth and lovely touching the shelves and I almost don't want to put anything on it... almost.


Art is now concentrating on this little closet in my office and it's requiring a WHOLE lot more effort. The opening is non-standard so it required quite a bit of hunting around to find doors that would work. We found them at Home Depot as part of a build your own cabinet project. It'll be much prettier than the shower curtain I was using to cover the hole.


Then it took a lot of measuring, fitting, remeasuring, refitting, and redoing the calculations before we could get started again.


We did a test run to see if the shelves would fit.


Then I had to repaint the whole closet and the supports that Art hammered in because the walls had gotten dinged up just like the other closet during all the "test runs."


Then I had to sand down the edges of the plywood sheets.


We bought these veneer strips to cover the front edge of the shelving.


I had Art demonstrate how I used the iron to glue on the strips while he followed with a block of wood to firm it in.


Then came the sanding and varnishing and sanding and varnishing....


The moulding for the closet had to be painted white. Ummm... Art just groaned that I painted over all his markings on the moulding. Oopsie! Maybe I'll go offer to make him a smoothie.

You know... once it's all done, nobody is going to see all this hard work. Maybe I should keep all the closet doors open?

Uh oh! I'm hearing more groans coming from the closet. I'll post a photo eventually when it's all done.

Some Sunday Stuff

It's a rather lazy Sunday. Art is busy working on my office closet. Unfortunately, the closet skeleton that the contractors put in is not exactly square so it's taking a bunch of adjustments to create the shelving.

We needed doors for it and when I called around I discovered that, it would cost upwards of $900 to get it custom made. Then one day we were at Home Depot and discovered that they had Build Your Own cabinet doors that we could buy for about $200! Yahoo! However, right now... Art is struggling with how to create the structure to attach the doors. It's all a learning process since it's the first time he's actually had to do this instead of mounting a pre-hung door. I have faith but I'm hearing a lot of sighs and groans over there.

Another fun item going around Hawaii is comedian Frank DeLima's Furlough Day Song which brings attention to the 17 Friday furlough days that Hawaii's children are being deprived of schooling. If you go to this Honolulu Advertiser site and click on Audio: you'll be able to hear the song.

The final fun thing that Art just showed me is a Yahoo Comics website. I do love my comics and miss some of my favorites in the Chicago Tribune. This site gives me a whole new batch to check out as well as those I enjoyed in the Trib. When we're gone on trips, I can catch up on my comics using this website.

Hope you're all having a lazy, happy Sunday. We had only 15 Trick or Treaters last night. Looks like I'll be passing out left over candy to whoever shows up. Kit Kats and Dark Chocolate Hersheys anyone?