Master Closet Redo

Since I have a closet the size of an entire bedroom for my clothes, our master closet is mostly Shaun's. Knowing this, I went for an understated, somewhat masculine feel for the paint and finishes. 

HAHAHA just kidding, that was not gonna happen!  This closet looks like a Tiffany box, and I don't care that all his man clothes are drowning in aqua and crystals. 

Okay, okay, I have some tops in here too...

I reconfigured some shelves and rods, but I have a couple shelves I need to cut down.  I'm not sure the best way to cut melamine without chipping it all up.  Everyone online suggests this $100 saw blade, but that is not happening!  I'm have to figure it out because we need more shelves, and less hanging storage. 

I'm not the only one in the house that loves brightly colored clothes!  And he looks so good wearing them, too...

He graciously allowed me to hang some of my summer tops in this closet because the hanging bar is too low for his shirts, anyway. 

I am thrilled with the way the new hardware on the dresser turned out!

What we had before was ok, but the handles were a thin and they were bronze.  I wanted to bring more nickel and chrome into the space to match the bedroom chandy and lamps.  These bin pulls not only look great, but they cover up the 3.5 inch center holes that were drilled.  Have you ever tried to find 3.5 inch center pulls?  Maddening!  These are long enough to cover the old holes, so I just drilled new 2.5 inch center holes inside them and I was in business.  Of course the entire thing had to be primed and painted with two coats of semigloss first. 

I saw these amazing crystal hooks at Home Depot, and I just have to splurge on them!  They replaced the silly plastic hooks that were here before.  There are two on either side, but Shaun's shirts cover one up.  So Fab!

Ah, the light fixture.  This thing is ridiculous in the best way possible.  Each of the tiny crystals had to be put on  the chrome 'cage' by hand, there were ~250 of them.  Shaun did it for me while I was at work!  Gotta love that man.  And Overstock!   This is actually a long pendant that I hacked to make a semi-flush fixture.  LOVE it. 

For a rug, I wanted something plush and orange to tie in the pops of orange in our bedroom.   After perusing Ebay, the same rug from my dressing room (Pottery Barn Moorish Tile rug) in the Clementine color was the obvious choice!  I love it so much that I really want to buy the 8x10 version for our room, but I think Shaun might strangle me.  How about a gift for my birthday?  Hmm?  Anyone?  Bueller? 

I especially love how it relates to the PB tile print duvet (also from ebay) that I got for the bed a few months ago.  Lucius was all up in my business for this photo shoot, obviously. 

See, here he is showing his privates...

(Enhance!)

Hey, at least he was looking at the camera!  So, there's my closet in all it's glory.  I'm super happy with the result, and Shaun has no opinion and thinks I was crazy to do anything at all. Well, he did say he likes the new dresser hardware.  Guess you have to actually work on a project to appreciate it!  Oooo, burn!  Deadbeat homeowner alert!  Ok, he assembled the light and then held it up while I installed it.  Interesting fact, even when men go to the gym every day and lift, it still hurts their arms to hold a light fixture over their head for more than a minute.  How about that!       

Here's the cost breakdown (this wasn't a cheap makeover):

Crystal hooks from Home Depot: $30 ($7.50 x 4)

Drawer pulls from Home Depot:  $32 ($4 x 8)

Crystal Pendant from Overstock:  $80 (sorry, I got the last one again!)

3x5 Moorish Tile Rug in Clementine from Ebay:  $100 (and totally worth it for protecting the floors and muffling the loud squeak right in the middle of the closet) 

I used leftover bedroom wall (Behr Aqua Smoke) and trim (Behr Ultra Pure White) paint in the closet. 

I added extra shelves the previous owners left in storage, spraying the gross ones with Rustoleum Universal spray in White Gloss from my stash. 

I stained the regular wood clothing rods with leftover floor stain and sprayed them with a gloss top coat I already had in my arsenal of supplies.   

Total: $242 - good thing we got a nice tax return this year...which I submitted YESTERDAY, holy last minute!  Have a great weekend!