 Closets & DIY (by WMH [NC]) Jun 20, 2025 9:54 AM
 Closets & DIY (by plenty [MO]) Jun 20, 2025 12:22 PM
Closets & DIY (by 6x6 [TN]) Jun 20, 2025 12:40 PM
Closets & DIY (by mapleaf18 [NY]) Jun 20, 2025 1:28 PM
Closets & DIY (by zero [IN]) Jun 20, 2025 4:03 PM
Closets & DIY (by WMH [NC]) Jun 20, 2025 4:25 PM
Closets & DIY (by mapleaf18 [NY]) Jun 21, 2025 7:21 AM
Closets & DIY (by zero [IN]) Jun 21, 2025 8:17 AM
Closets & DIY (by DJ [VA]) Jun 28, 2025 9:03 AM
Closets & DIY (by plenty [MO]) Jun 28, 2025 10:06 AM
Closets & DIY (by zero [IN]) Jun 29, 2025 8:54 AM
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Closets & DIY (by WMH [NC]) Posted on: Jun 20, 2025 9:54 AM
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Little tip if you are a DIY and want to add closet space on a budget:
Thrift stores often have too many old TV cabinets (or you can find them on FB because they are heavy.) They are made of wood, usually very nice pieces of furniture, and they are 24" deep to hold those old monster TVs. Paint to match walls, run a bar across inside the top part where the TV used to go and now you have a "shirt closet" with drawers and storage underneath. Use two and you have a shirt side and a pants side, or whatever.
My DIL did this in their former 100-year-old, no-closet house in a random nook and they worked beautifully. FWIW.
Someone mentioned a space they were working on with no closets and I just randomly remembered this. --173.28.xx.xxx |
Closets & DIY (by plenty [MO]) Posted on: Jun 20, 2025 12:22 PM
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Totally a DIY project! Awesome idea. --172.59.xxx.xxx |
Closets & DIY (by 6x6 [TN]) Posted on: Jun 20, 2025 12:40 PM
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home made chifforobes --73.19.xxx.xx |
Closets & DIY (by mapleaf18 [NY]) Posted on: Jun 20, 2025 1:28 PM
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Sounds like a good idea but in today's day and age of bed bugs, etc. I wouldn't buy any furniture at a thrift store any longer. I ended up buying an inexpensive metal wardrove that you have to put together. So far so goo. --64.246.xxx.xx |
Closets & DIY (by zero [IN]) Posted on: Jun 20, 2025 4:03 PM
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My daughter got an old TV like that and used it to make a cat playpen.
Cool idea. Kind of an ugly thing. The cats bored of it before the end of the first day. I will ask her what she things about the shirt closet idea. --107.147.xx.xx |
Closets & DIY (by WMH [NC]) Posted on: Jun 20, 2025 4:25 PM
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My DIL's came out really good looking, custom-looking really. Painted to match the walls, with some storage on top as well.
Mapleaf, we don't seem to have the same bedbug issues you have in NY. I mean we have them, probably carried here from up north LOL! You shouldn't buy upholstered furniture without some preparation before taking it indoors, but wooden stuff can be de-bugged more easily. --173.28.xx.xxx |
Closets & DIY (by mapleaf18 [NY]) Posted on: Jun 21, 2025 7:21 AM
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On bedbug issues, this may get me zotted but since they gave a magic carpet ride over the past 4 years to 3rd world countries into western nations, such marvelous things as measles, tuberculosis, polio, pertussis, bed bugs and the like have been pervasive in BLUE states/cities where they continue to be welcomed with open arms. --64.246.xxx.xx |
Closets & DIY (by zero [IN]) Posted on: Jun 21, 2025 8:17 AM
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Trying to remember the few cases of bedbugs I have dealt with.
Boyfriend of tenant worked for a carpet cleaning company. He brought them home. Bed was literally full of them. They gifted the bed to the new tenant who then had problems.
Tenant waved me over one day to look at the new chair he bought at the thrift store for $10. Turns out it was full of BB's and cost him a pretty penny to get rid of them along with dusting the dividing wall of the duplex.
Tenant works in mental healthcare. Goes to client's houses and drives them around to places as part of their therapy. Brought BB's home. Paid for the removal. Now is cautious whenever a new client is brought in.
The last I am remembering is the first I had to deal with. They were not clean people. Three generations in the house. They had a mouse problem as well. Took a lot to get them somewhat into compliance. Now I would just boot them, but I didn't know what I didn't know back then.
Now my head and arms are itching. Brought it on myself just by discussing bedbugs. --107.147.xx.xx |
Closets & DIY (by DJ [VA]) Posted on: Jun 28, 2025 9:03 AM
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Why not just frame up an actual closet? --72.218.xx.xxx |
Closets & DIY (by plenty [MO]) Posted on: Jun 28, 2025 10:06 AM
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I will share why... Because it's a lot of work! Framing, drywall, tapping and mudding x3, lots of painting, inside and out and did I mention the closet doors and track... It's a lot of work to make a closet! --172.59.xxx.xxx |
Closets & DIY (by zero [IN]) Posted on: Jun 29, 2025 8:54 AM
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Have your son do it between all his money making.
(Meant as a joke. Nice meeting him this year at the convention) --107.147.xx.xx |
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