Remodeling update
May. 16th, 2006 22:42![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeLike many closets in many homes, our's was a simple closet rod with a shelf above. Very inefficient, as you might suppose, and we decided to gut the thing and replace what was there with a ClosetMaid 8-in-1 Closet Organizing System.
However, ours was different in how the closet rod/shelf configuration was accomplished. Most closets of this species have two little cups, one on each wall, left and right, that hold the closet rod. The shelf is a simple piece of plywood on little wooden cleats.
No so, here at Osage. Oh no, not so much.
My uncle built this closet as a floor to ceiling, eight foot wide cabinet, divided in quarters, left-top, left-bottom, right-top, right-bottom. I have often criticised my uncle for how he built things, for taking shortcuts wherever possible, regardless of the final product. In this closet, I might have prayed for that.
You see, when he wanted to exercise the talent, the man had a way of building things so that they wouldn't come apart.
No, that's not quite right. He had a way of building things so that even someone with a sixteen pound sledgehammer, a Sawz-All and a violently destructive temperament couldn't take them apart.
Damn, that was hard work. Two pretty impressive cuts on my left hand (they look bloody awful, but they're not really much trouble.) I got a couple good sized pieces of 3/4" plywood out of the deal, though, and that will find a use almost right away.
Carpet tomorrow!
However, ours was different in how the closet rod/shelf configuration was accomplished. Most closets of this species have two little cups, one on each wall, left and right, that hold the closet rod. The shelf is a simple piece of plywood on little wooden cleats.
No so, here at Osage. Oh no, not so much.
My uncle built this closet as a floor to ceiling, eight foot wide cabinet, divided in quarters, left-top, left-bottom, right-top, right-bottom. I have often criticised my uncle for how he built things, for taking shortcuts wherever possible, regardless of the final product. In this closet, I might have prayed for that.
You see, when he wanted to exercise the talent, the man had a way of building things so that they wouldn't come apart.
No, that's not quite right. He had a way of building things so that even someone with a sixteen pound sledgehammer, a Sawz-All and a violently destructive temperament couldn't take them apart.
Damn, that was hard work. Two pretty impressive cuts on my left hand (they look bloody awful, but they're not really much trouble.) I got a couple good sized pieces of 3/4" plywood out of the deal, though, and that will find a use almost right away.
Carpet tomorrow!