The Someday Farmer: New Hutch and Coat Closet

Thanks to the wonderful cleaning lady I mentioned I was able to make significant progress on the coat closet. While there are still no coats in it, they are coming. I needed to put the shelves in to visualize the space before I could even think about adding the closet rod for coats.

I will admit that my method for projects is unconventional. It has a tendency to create issues because only I know what is going on, but it ends up working out 99% of the time (the first attempts at this closet being in the 1%).

It all started after I complained to my mom about the issue with the closet, the studs, and the tendency for the anchors to come out of these walls (yes, they are installed correctly, it seems to be the walls. Even the painter and handyman have mentioned it). I had been meaning to hang shelves made of black iron piping in the dinning room above a piece of furniture. For numerous reasons I hadn’t gotten around to it, it turns out to be a good thing. Once I had complained about the closet issue, my mom envisioned similar problems with the shelves and had a minor panic attack (which I did not witness). The next thing I know we are visiting her and she shows me a picture of a hutch exactly like what I wanted in the dinning room and tells me it is my Christmas present and will be delivered next week. I was a bit stunned, but it was exactly what I had wanted and needed for the space, they say the Lord works in mysterious ways.

Now what does this have to do with the coat closet?

Well I had already bought the iron pipe and had had it so long I couldn’t return it. Turns out it is exactly what I needed to do to organize the closet. So I started my giant jigsaw puzzle and viola, shelves! They are not adjustable like what I had wanted, but that wasn’t going to happen.