HOW TO CREATE A PRETTY AND FUNCTIONAL KIDS CLOSET (ON A BUDGET)
2 Materials
$300
2 Days
Medium
Today I am sharing a pretty gorgeous floral closet that we designed for Maya. We tried to keep this one on budget, and I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. It is pretty but also packs in function. And the best part?
We still have some room to grow into it. She definitely has the nicest closet in the house – lucky little lady!
After wallpapering the closet in Graham & Brown’s gorgeous Isabelle Blue paper – you can catch all my wallpaper 101 tips and tricks in a separate post on the blog – it was time to finish putting the closet together.
Here is a reminder of what we were starting with. We built that top shelf using MDF and purchased the railing from the hardware store.
And here it is post-painting and wallpapering, below. The whole scheme of the closet is colourful, pretty, and reminds me of an English garden. Graham & Brown’s September trend, “Horizon”, was all about taking inspiration of nature into your interior design scheme and I think this totally fits the bill. It feels like you’re opening the door into a pretty garden and comes off all fresh and sweet.
In order to figure out what made the most sense for how to lay out the closet, we wrote out a list of what we would be wanting to store in there. In her dresser, Maya has her tee-shirts, long sleeve shirts, pants/leggings, and PJs. All other clothing items (socks, underwear, shorts, sweaters, dresses, etc) were for the closet, but in addition to that I wanted to be able to put away all of her “accessories” (head bands, bracelets, etc), diapers and wipes, her carrier, extra blankets and linens, and awkward stuff like her lifejacket. The other thing that we took into consideration was the longevity of the interior fittings – we wanted the closet to be able to grow with her and accommodate her changing storage needs.
We had already built the one shelf at the top and installed a long rod along the length of the closet but wanted to take it a step further.
Now, I know you want to see what the finished space looks like and how we created what I think is the best floral inspired closet out there! Pop over to the full post to check out all the details!
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