Extra Storage in a Bedroom

Alright! Alright! I'll write my blog.....

Jeesh.....

a person takes a couple of weeks off from the grind of pushing out blog after blog after blog.....

and all she gets is grief!!!!!

So, 

now I'm back

So there.

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Let's continue with my good buddy Kris's youngest child's (Kieran's) bedroom.

Which is hardly ever used because he is now a big fancy schmancy college graduate.

And has flown the nest.

Which means that we will soon be tweaking this room.

We just wait to be sure that they (the chillin's) are

not coming back...... 

before we rip apart change their bedrooms.

Since it's been two weeks, I will show a couple of pictures of the room so far, to refresh your memories.

Not that I'm dissing your mental faculties....

BUT

some of us aren't as young as YOU used to be!!!!!

As you guys can see,

to the right of the desk is a wall of cabinetry.

When I started working on this room.....

IT WASN'T THERE!!!!!

It's like magic!

I just wielded my little pencil, drew a few lines and presto chango, 

LOTS OF STORAGE!

This is what happened.

There was a small crappy closet in this room.

Since this house was built at the turn of the last century,

people must not have had as much shit stuff as they do now!

So they just had small, tiny, teeny, little, cramped closets.

OH MY GOODNESS.....

I was going to tell you how I incorporated the depth of the closet into the new built-ins.....

but I can't remember what I did.

It has been over 10 years.

Give me a break, I be old.

Anyway.....

I designed this wall of storage so that Kris could use some of the cabinets for her stuff too!

The units were so large, that the cabinet maker had to hoist them through the bedroom windows.

Lots of drama ensued!!!!

I wanted these cabinets to look original to the house, so I had the crown molding wrap around the top, and the baseboard wrap around the bottom.

I designed a simple recessed panel, as that would have been a more likely design at that time.

I had the problem of what to do with the heating vent.

I designed the cabinets as if it wasn't there, and then created a false drawer and framed the vent with the molding of the baseboard.

To have it work with the boyish overtones of the rooms decoration, Kris and I chose large wooden knobs.

Now that Kieran is a college grad, with a job and an apartment.....

Kris's stuff is migrating into these cabinets.

It's a wondrous and mysterious phenomenon that is experienced across the nation!!!!!  

The movement of Mom's stuff into grown children's rooms.

I'll never forget the first time I came home to visit my parents after I had moved to my first apartment down in Georgia.....

MY BEDROOM HAD BECOME MY MOTHER'S STUDY!!!!!!

Not such a subtle statement.

 But I understood the memo.

At 22 my childhood was over.

I would always be welcome in my parent's home.....

but it was time to create a place of my own.

THIS DOESN'T SEEM TO HAPPEN TODAY!!!!!

But Kris is old school, and it's happening in her house.

We be soul mates.

Kris and Me!

On that note,

Latah, Gatah