Building a Shoe Barn

GeneV · Mar 29, 2020

Nice work.

Gem99ultra · Mar 31, 2020

Both closets look very nice. BUT - I'm thinking, as she probably already is, that you have some wasted space in your closet. That surely could be used for some of her rarely worn clothes and specialty shoes/boots? (Her thinking, naturally.)

I also see light switches in the closet. Built in automatic switches to turn on the light when you open the door, installed in the door frame would be a nice feature. If you're like me, most of the time it takes me two exits, first I go out and close the door, then when I see the light on, I have to go back in and turn the light back off. If its too late to add that feature, a motion detector sensor might also be an option. ... just a suggestion.

EddieWalker · Mar 31, 2020

Good to see the finished pictures. Your transition from baseboard to door trim in unique. I've never seen that before. The one thing that drives me crazy is seeing those white wires on your grey headboard. How hard would it be to drill a hole and run them behind the headboard?

BrokenTrack · Mar 31, 2020

Gem99ultra said:
Both closets look very nice. BUT - I'm thinking, as she probably already is, that you have some wasted space in your closet. That surely could be used for some of her rarely worn clothes and specialty shoes/boots? (Her thinking, naturally.)

I also see light switches in the closet. Built in automatic switches to turn on the light when you open the door, installed in the door frame would be a nice feature. If you're like me, most of the time it takes me two exits, first I go out and close the door, then when I see the light on, I have to go back in and turn the light back off. If its too late to add that feature, a motion detector sensor might also be an option. ... just a suggestion.

Yeah there is quite a bit of wasted space.

We had kind of hoped the HIS CLOSET would be a bit bigger so that we could turn the HER CLOSET into a bathroom, but it just is not big enough for two people.

Last year we moved out of this house and into a Tiny House that we have, and in doing that, we got rid of most of our clothing, and probably 2/3 of our stuff. This house never sold, so we moved back into it, and was determined NOT to bring more stuff back into the house. We did pretty good, except for her shoe collection as you can see!

I agree with the switches, but in this house it is mostly with the kids. They have walk in closets as well (6x8) and so they are forever leaving the lights on! It drives me nuts.

BrokenTrack · Mar 31, 2020

EddieWalker said:
Good to see the finished pictures. Your transition from baseboard to door trim in unique. I've never seen that before. The one thing that drives me crazy is seeing those white wires on your grey headboard. How hard would it be to drill a hole and run them behind the headboard?

I keep taking pictures and miss the corner baseboard detail.

In my bedroom for instance, the corners have cutouts of shamrocks, just because my ex-wife liked Ireland, and we were forever going over there. In my daughter's bedroom, the corners have heart-shaped cut-outs. And in our spare room (at the time), I anticipated having a boy, so I actually have tractor cut-outs. In the entryway of our home, since we are Christians, we have crosses. As you can tell, some rooms do not have them, like closets and the bathroom. And not every location has enough room for corner cut-out motif's. And not all doorways have peacock feather cut-outs either.

A lot of it is just having room, and what I think will make for a nice transition.

But when I started the baseboard on this house, I was working on high-end yachts, and on yachts it is different then carpentry because you go by "eye" more than by a tape measure. It has to look right, even if a tape measure says something is off. They call it "having fair lines", but is very subjective.

BrokenTrack · Mar 31, 2020

EddieWalker said:
Good to see the finished pictures. Your transition from baseboard to door trim in unique. I've never seen that before.

I just took some quick pictures so the quality is not that good, but you can see the corner-cut-outs that I was talking about. Well at least the tractor ones and the shamrocks. You can also see how the baseboard "flows" around the room.

As I said earlier, it was just my way of using a boring wood I had, to make baseboard more interesting. It takes time to make, and no spec-house would ever do something so time-consuming, which is why I did it.

As for the tractor and the son...kind of sad, but our son never made it to birth. It was too bad, growing up on a farm, I had lots of toy tractors as a kid, and saved them all for him. It was just not to be I guess. But I got 4 daughters, the boys will be along shortly. (LOL)