That One's TOO Big!

When we were house hunting last year, we had many things on our must list. 3 bedrooms. 2 bathrooms. A decent sized yard. A garage. No pool. Good counter space in the kitchen. The one aspect I didn't really care too much about? Closets.

Maybe I should have cared about them because we were dealt an odd hand. Our master closet has been remodeled. The thing takes up almost a quarter of our room. On top of that, whoever completed the work did a shoddy job. We knew it was an area that would need renovation. It was at the top of my list. The Hubs? Well, he doesn't share my disdain about it. It holds our clothes and such. We have room for our bed. But to me, our diamond shaped closet is an omen for clutter. Three sets of shelving. Four poles for hangers. And enough floor space to add even more furniture. None of which we need. And here's why...

We don't even come close to filling it. It's sheer dead space that could be back in our bedroom. Our bed could be moved away from the awkward spot it is now. I could put our dresser in the closet to make even more free space for playing, dancing, yoga, or whatever else. I'm a minimalist stuck with a consumerist-sized closet.

So what would you do? Live with it? Tear it down and rebuild it to the original layout? Thankfully, the labor is generally free thanks to overly generous family. All we would need to pay for are the building materials, which wouldn't be much at all (like between $100-300 depending on how fancy we wanted to get). Thoughts?

P.S.- I'll go into the organization in a later post. Like the rainbow order of clothes and special colored hangers because I'm OCD like that. ___________________________________________________________________________________


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