Last night the Hubs read the linen closet post.
He reminded me I didn’t explain all the upgrades we (he) did.
So I’m gonna share the rest.
I think I forgot to post a pic of the less-than-ideal footprint of this closet:
They did it like this to add space to the hallway, but it makes for a weird closet. Although if you look up the word closet in the dictionary, it probably says, “space to make homeowner think they can store stuff, but really just odd places within a home the builder didn’t know how else to use.”
Anyway
After the painting, and before the shelves, the Hubs wired up some joy in the linen closet for me. Originally we were going to use a string of Christmas lights, but he decided the rope lights would work better.
That’s a nice digger on the trim, huh? I can’t even imagine how that might have happened. If I were more conscientious, I would have sanded all the flaws out before painting the trim. On the other hand, it’s trim, it’s lucky it got painted at all!
It took a while to find lights that were warm and not daylight colored. Then the Hubs had to tap into an outlet on the outside of the closet to add an outlet to the inside. In order not to have a traditional switch, he found one of these:
When the door opens, it’s on, when closed it’s off. Nothing to do on my part, which is great if I have an armload of linens.
There was some back and forth about tearing up the walls and wire fishing, but in the end we decided to surface mount all of the wire so if we leave we can take it out and no one will ever know (except you) that there was once light in this closet!
It was a lot easier, and I didn’t have to do a lot of drywall fixes.
Win-win
As you can see, there’s still a lot of space I have not yet filled. I always like when that happens. But it never lasts.
Mayhem is pretty obsessed with this closet. He always has been because the door is rarely open (mostly because it blocks access to the office). This is next level interest. It’s like he can hear me getting ready to open it because he comes from noplace and scoots in. I should just leave the door cracked for a few hours so he can get it out of his system.
Today I saw an article about unclaimed funds. So I went to the website and searched for some. I did get a hit on a utility refund from when we lived in Richmond, that’s nice. I’m pretty good about cleaning up after myself, but you just never know when you’re gonna get a surprise.
I searched the Kraken and found a few things, then I searched some other names. I found some stuff from my stepmother, my sister, and some friends. I sent notes off to them hoping they won’t think it’s a scam so they can claim what technically belongs to them. Afterall, if you have stuff out there and don’t claim it, eventually the Fed will absorb it.
I hope you find treasure!
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