I guess I slept wrong last night. My neck is killing me today.

How odd. Typically you cause a pain in other peoples neck.

Perhaps that means it backwards day?

Well, a few things finally went wrong with the closet project yesterday while installing lighting. The first hole I drilled to pass wires through led me to the discovery of some sort of metal plate between the crappy built-in desk (where there clearly used to be a vanity) and the closet. No clue what that's about, but I don't own the tools necessary to drill through it, so I had to pick another spot and hope for the best.

Unfortunately I didn't think the 2nd spot through very well and drilled a hole in a stupid spot. So that meant a 3rd hole. Fortunately I don't really give a crap about there being a couple extra holes in that built in desk.

Then after all that it turned out that I was about 10" of cable short to wire the lights as I wanted them. There should have been plenty based on my initial plans, but due to a few factors, things got shifted and there wasn't enough. Determined to make yesterday the first day in a couple weeks without a trip to Home Depot, I just sacrificed another lamp (one that we were using previously to light the closet, so no longer necessary) for its cord. Worked perfectly.

So now we've got stable shelving, spiffy chrome hanging bars, and a 67% increase in linear hanging space. Hooray! It went so well, I'm thinking of doing the same in the 2nd bedroom. But that'll be after fully finishing this one (patching and painting left to do), and after some general house organizing/getting rid of crap.

Congratulations! I'm sure the second one will be even better.

Knowing that you have a 67% increase in closet space is a little bit dorky ya know. ;)

Any chance of sharing photos? I would love to see how you configured it!

Seeing as I measured and remeasured and remeasured countless times, I can hardly help but know that.

The dorky part is that I could have looked at it before and after and given that 67% figure correctly WITHOUT measuring.


Once it's painted I'm going to take pictures. But I can describe the change pretty succinctly.

Before:
A single 9 1/2` shelf at a height of ~70" and a single 9 1/2' bar just beneath it. All supported by 2 supports*.

After:
Essentially raised that 9 1/2' span up so that the hanging bar is at 80". Instead of a single 9 1/2' length of shelf/bar, it's now 3 separate pieces of shelving, 2 separate bars, supported by 7 angle brackets attached to studs.

Then at a height of 40", there's a 38" hanging bar w/shelf on either side of the closet, leaving a 38" space in the middle so we can hang long items from the top bar. So it now looks something like this (not to scale):

========= ========= ============
----------------------------- ---------- 80"



================================
----------------------------------------- 40"



---------------------------------------- Floor


Nothing fancy, but way better than one collapsing shelf.




*If you can call what was there "support". Whereas an intelligent person would use a shelf support that looks like this:
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Whomever put that shelf up used supports that were JUST the angle part:
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..../
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Gee, I wonder why the shelf was sagging.

OMG - Caramel Delites (samoas?) from the freezer = Mountain of Sin on a plate.

(this means yum)

Mountain of Sin would be a killer porn actor/actress name.