If you develop a closet yourself you may find it is a great method to not only save money but also create the precise type and amount of storage that you need. A few years back a great friend chose to develop a log cabin on the lake within the North. He did a fantastic job in designing and building it. It was a beautiful structure with a fireplace and enormous windows overlooking the river. When the day came to move into the cabin for that summer his wife asked where the closets were. Yes that's right he left them from the design.
My friend called me and in the backdrop I could plainly hear his spouse extolling his building abilities. With our assistance he quickly discovered that you are able to develop a closet yourself. Since this was a log cabin he decided that constructing several walk in closets was impractical. However because the cabin was going to be used both in summer time months as well as for snowmobiling during the cold months there is a need to store both summer and winter apparel using free standing and wardrobe closet furniture alone wouldn't provide all of the needed closet space.
One of the best places to locate closet ideas and fashions is on the Internet. Many closet manufactures and installers have great closet layouts design software on their websites. Many of those software packages are specifically design that will help you select the company's products but they frequently may be used to build a closet yourself. Basically you will find only three closet options available and they range from the walk-in, reach in and free standing or wardrobe closet furniture. Since space was limited we selected using 36 inch deep reach in and free-standing designs.
After you have your closet ideas and design you can begin looking for building materials. When it comes to my friend whose log cabin had no closet space we select half log siding which was very similar to the existing log structure. We roughed within the closets against the interior stud walls of every bedroom and then lined each with white cedar. This cedar closet lining basically works just like a cedar chest. The interior shelves were also constructed of cedar. One half from the closets were dedicated to standard half and full length clothes hanging and the rest to open shelves. Open selves allow someone to easily discover everything stored inside the closet.
We used exactly the same sealer used on the cabins interior log surfaces to finish the outside of our new reach in closets. My friend's wife did her part too by finding wardrobe closet furniture that would accent natural look from the vacation cabin. We visited the furnishings store making several measurements and noted the kind of construction and material. It was not well before we were back in our shop designing and building two copies.
You are able to develop a closet yourself that will work as well every product found on the market today. In addition the all inclusive costs of designing and building 3 standard and two free standing closets was less than $1000. If you were to purchase the two wardrobe furniture pieces it might have cost more than double the amount alone. Our total project time was about 30 days which was reasonable considering all of us had regular jobs to operate too. As you can see you actually can build a closet yourself.
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