Organization - The completion of the hall closet

As mentioned in a previous post, I found that the key to successfully organizing the nursery, I would need to remove all of the shoes we have in that closet. To do that, I needed to revamp the hall closet because I was basically just a bar with a shelf on top. There wasn't much else to it.

Here are a few before shots:

First things first. Remove the old crappy accordion door that doesn't work well with this closet. I then had to figure out how to most effectively use the space. I looked online for some inspiration but mostly came up empty because whenever I would look for "Small closet organization" or some variation of that, I would get results with either these MASSIVE walk-in closets of closets that people think are small but are in fact quite large.

I took out the old shelf and the wood for the bar and made a few holes in the process.

Then, I thought of what I needed and then went to Lowes (which was my first time there) for the materials to make the shoe rack as well as the shelving. I do have to thank the guy at Lowes who was very patient with me in cutting my wood.

Over the course of a few evenings I was able to complete the project (it only took that long because I am working two jobs and would get home at 9:30pm to work on it for a half hour before I felt it was too late to hammer and that it may bother the neighbours.) The only thing was left was to get the bar/rail to hang the clothes. I was going to keep the old one and just cut it but it wouldn't work very well because of the configuration so I figured to use the IKEA Komplement rail that is used in their Pax wardrobes. I would just need to cut it to size. After getting the wrong size (too small, the measurements on the site are very wrong) I got the right one and the closet is now complete.

Have a look at the end result.

The only thing left now is the door which we will get around to eventually... maybe. I still need to figure out what to do there.