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Today I unmade and remade the closet that my husband and I share. As I mentioned on Day 1, my husband got a job! This came with much shopping for clothes and other prepping. And of course, the nasty realization that my clothes were taking up um, almost all of the walk in closet we shared. My camera battery was dead, so no before pictures, but let me just say there was a dresser in the back that kill a quarter or more of the hanging space and clothes I never wore took up probably half of what was left. After a few hours of hard work I had this:

A HUGE bag of clothes to give away. Plus a pile probably half that size of clothes to be put up–mostly to be put into quilts or photographed before they were given away. Plus a smaller pile of things to be put away in drawers and not hung.

After some rearranging and sorting, my side of the closet looked like this:

Probably a quarter of what I started with, with plenty of space to sperate work from casual wear. And my happy hubby? He now has the same amount of space on the opposite side of the closet. Amazing. : )

It’s been a long day. I chose to wrap an empty tin with some pretty Martha Stewart wrapping paper. I can’t decide if I should spray paint the lid white? I already switched the original red one for this black one. Thoughts?

The yoga poses written out will have to wait until another day…

Day 6 shall be that other day. Yoga poses shall be written out and placed in the tin.

Today I put in the hardware and shelves for my shoe cubbies in the new space. They look really awesome. Time to start moving the shoes upstairs.

So my studio instructor gave me a minor assignment where I have to come up with concepts for a product that would combine a stool, table, and storage all in one. This sketch is one of my ideas that I was interested in:

It’s a pretty simple idea. What I find interesting about this idea (other than the fact that it’s a stool, table, and storage all together) is the sliding door under the surface instead of a typical pulling-door function like a drawer. Feedback?