Nursery Room - Closet Design

I'm not an interior designer.  The only type of designer I can even somewhat claim to be is a chip designer.  Nope, not potato chips, computer chips.  And which one of you cares about that?  No one.  So when it comes to designing things for a room, I go to the drawing board...a lot.  I'm an Engineer, so my thought process is, for the most part, very practical.  I like things to be functional, logical, and then eye appeasing all at the same time.

Well, Chris is an Engineer too.  And he's taking over my go-go-go mentality / work ethic when it comes to the nursery here lately to pick up my slack.  So any input he wants to have, I welcome (and actually love).

What does all of this have to do with anything?  Well, I came up with a closet design a few weeks back and sent it over to Chris.  Being the Engineer that he is, he sent me back his vision of the closet design that didn't really look too much at all like my vision.

Here's mine :

Kara's Closet Design

And here's Chris's:

Chris's Closet Design

Oiy.  The joys of having two Engineers in a marriage!!  Kodi obviously liked my closet design better, so that was two votes to one, so my design won.

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No, not really.  We weighed out the pros and cons of each closet design and came up with a solution that we're both happy with.

We liked the shoe shelves / cubby holes from my design.  She is a girl, lets face it, she most likely will have lots of shoes. I also designed them wide enough to hold jeans or sweaters, and they're big enough to hold baskets too, so my cubby holes are multi-functional.

Chris's design had large pieces of wood floating from the wall to create a box with the mirror / pillows on top of the toy box.  The point of the frame was to hang the closet racks on it, but it really served no other purpose.  The frame would've had to have been at least 12'' off from the wall too because that's where our rods are going to hang, so we completely nixed the frame out idea and just left the cubby hole idea.

We did modify my cubby hole plans to be 16'' deep instead of 12.  We can fit larger baskets in the holes that way, and it allows us to use more of the actual closet space.

Chris's design did have cubby holes, but they were 12'' high at the very very bottom.  He actually wanted to divide those 'boxes' that are at 12'' into two's, so he gave her four cubby holes.  The problem with this is that we do want the closet to grow with her, and taller cubby holes serves this purpose a little bit better.  And hanging clothes 12'' apart from cubby holes seemed cramped for when she gets bigger.

My 26'' bottom row is pretty low, but that will allow her to dress herself at some point.  Because if she's anything like Chris and I, she will be fiercly independent.  And with my closet design, I've made the rest of the levels unreachable for her to start off with, which means I can hang clothes that I want her to pick out on the bottom hanger while still allowing her to feel independent.  I gotta try to outsmart her when I can!  Yeah, I know, it's a losing battle.

The one thing we did take from Chris's design and implement was adding one large shelf at the top.  We took out my top two cubby holes and added a large shelf across the top.  Cubby holes that high aren't going to get used for much.  The top shelf can be used to put up stuff that she won't need year round.  The more storage, the better, right?!

In the world of nursery decorating, right now we're at a score of Kara : 2, Chris : 0.  I get to claim my bookshelves too!  Although, I do have to be fair here...Chris has done a lot more of the manual labor than I have recently.  You can constantly hear me grumbling around at any given point with some of these projects muttering "too fat, too fat".  It's really fun when your belly is full of paint because you're not used to be so large and you run into everything!  Nothing like a big 'ol belly filled with paint...and belly paint smears in all of our paint projects...sigh.

We got almost all of this done this past weekend, but have a few finishing touches to do before giving you a big reveal, so tune in next week for closet fun week!!  Yes, I'm a dork, I get excited about our custom closets, I know.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!  Happy Friday!!

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