Closet Mini Makeover

So, I have a problem with re-doing rooms in the house that probably don't need it.

The closet was one of those things. It was not functional anymore and I was getting tired of stepping over the piles of STUFF in the floor. John also had this great shelving that really should be used for shoes and he didn't use it for that. So, I wanted to downsize the amount of stuff in there and switch sides. 

Plus, I couldn't STAND looking at this every day. 

Before

Now, what should have been a FUN and easy project.. I wanted to re-paint the walls and do a houndstooth stencil on the main wall. So, I took everything OUT of the closet and took off the shelving. Try finding a place to put all that! 

I got the holes patched in the wall and painted. I started on Thursday afternoon and got that all finished by Friday night. I was waiting the stencil to come in. So, late Friday night, I start with the stencil... and it's bleeding everywhere. So, I take it down and decide I will need to re-paint over that to start over. Saturday morning, I started again and I realized that the stencil just wasn't going to look the way I wanted it to, so I made a modification to just do white stripes. I measured and taped everything off in about 45 minutes. I didn't take the bottom part of the wall, because it was still drying where I painted over the white stencil. I paint my stripes and am finally feeling good about this project- it's going to look good, maybe not like I wanted, but I should be finished in time for dinner! Yay! 

So, I waited to pull the tape until the paint was almost dry..As I am pulling the tape off, HUGE CHUNKS of paint are coming off.. all the way down to the sheetrock. I thought I was going to cry. It looked worse than before. So, after throwing a mini-fit about it, and people telling me to just leave it, I decided I couldn't just leave it, so I HAND PAINTED the last two stripes and then patched the holes and re painted the spots that were messed up. 

Then it was time to put everything back. 

My new side

Philly's new side

 John's shoe rack that I got from Target for $9.99!! And I put it together myself!

I decided to put my seasonal footwear on the bottom shelf

My new earring holder that I made

bags

So, what do you think? Probably not worth the headache, but I am happy with the results. The closet is less cluttered and we using our space much better!