Magical closet makeover. After sifting through disorganized clumps of sheets and towels one too many times, I finally asked my DH to help me put a shelving system into our linen closet. Here is the before picture.

I am not sure what the builder thought this tiny shelf would hold - certainly not much that is useful for humans. The gaping lack of shelving in the bottom section is also inexplicable, but since most of these vinyl smackeroo houses seem to be built in 24 hours, there probably isn't time to pense on such tiny details.

So DH ripped out little shelf and then much spackle was needed to help repair the wall. The pink stuff that turns white when it is dry is definitely helpful for those with children or other time-consuming life elements that don't allow time for you to sit and watch it dry.


I wanted the closet to match the hallway, and fortunately we had leftover paint, so I gave it a beautious new coat.


Then DH came in with the Closet Maid Shelf Track. We couldn't use one of the prepackaged kits like we had used in the boys rooms since this closet is a unique size and shape. Shelf Track is a flexible system though, and our Lowe's has a free shelf cutting service that we used to make the shelves accomodate our closet. So he found the studs, with some false positives, but ended up hanging the hang tracks with a mix of screws and toggle bolts and not too much trouble. Once the tracks were up, everything else went in easily, and the finished product makes the closet so much more useful!