The flat’s decent-sized master bedroom featured a small, disproportionately sized closet, oddly also home to the apartment’s hot water tank.
Three guidelines guided the small bedroom closet’s real-life makeover.
- The unit is a rental; therefore, keep expenses to a minimum.
- For the reason above, cannot displace the hot water tank.
- The residence’s two large hallway closets will store coats and winter boots.
The original layout had a single rod across the front, with the rear area and a shelf above the rod used for general storage.
We decided to maximize the left wall area and the space around the water tank. The left wall was divided into three parts, two rods and a sliding-out pants rack from Ikea.
We used a salvaged mail room pigeonhole shelf for the area around the water tank, which received two coats of white paint.
The closet was emptied, cleaned, primed, and underwent two coats of satin gloss paint. Once the freshly painted walls dried, we installed the shelf, cut it into smaller sections to fit around the water heater.
With the shelf securely in place, we then attached the two rods plus the pants rack onto the opposite wall. Unfortunately, the closet’s width did not allow for the slide-out hanger to slide forward, so the right-side support rail was removed using a metal cutting saw.
The hanger was secured directly onto the drywall studs using two large screws (Yellow arrow). It is important to securely attach rods and racks to a wall stud or use appropriate size wall anchors.
Studs run along a wall from floor to ceiling 16 or 24 inches apart, measured from center to center. A stud finder would help to locate studs.
Below are the before and after makeover images.
