You’ve seen them. On Pinterest, magazines, blogs, etc. Those gorgeous master closets with chandeliers and fancy rugs and maybe an ottoman (or a sofa!) in the middle, or if you’re lucky, a whole separate island or vanity area for primping and glamorizing.
Well, that’s not going to happen here.
Our master bedroom has a plain old closet with ye olde mirrored sliding doors. We are keeping those because they bounce a great deal of light around and as dark as our house is, we love all the light we can get. Unless it’s time to sleep. Then we love our light-blocking panels.
But I digress.
This is the starting point. I’m so sorry.
Left side:
We’ve had the white unit for almost 10 years. Steve reinforced the back, which was bowing in, and it’s good to go for another 10. He gets two drawers, I get two drawers; my makeup and most of my jewelry go on the lower shelf. We share the top shelf and he gets the middle shelf.
Right side:
Did I mention we share?
Yep, he gets the top level while I (being all of 5’1″) get the lower one.
Since we didn’t have a good place for my long skirts and dresses, we decided to move things around, and give the old thing a paint job while we were at it. Nothing fancy, just the same Valspar “Cream in my Coffee” we have in the living room, but it was an improvement over this loveliness:
Of course, things got a lot worse before they started to get better:
I still have a lot of sorting to do, given my array of costume jewelry, so things aren’t 100% finished. But we are both happy with the results so far.
Hopefully, I will have more (neater) stuff to show you soon!
Have a wonderful week!
Casa de Berry 
Can’t wait to see it finished, I’m sure it will be much better!!
I hope so because the *before* mess is really shameful 😀
Closets are such tricky things. We’re very lucky, we have a walk-in, but occasionally I look at the 2 stand-alone wardrobes we used in England and I wonder how on earth it all fitted in. I seem to remember a large amount of stuff lived under the bed 🙂
I’d love a walk-in. I think the secret to making this work is going to be purging, rather than appropriating one of my children’s rooms as a walk-in. “But I think you’d LOVE sharing a bunk bed with your brother!”