Thursday, January 24, 2008

Home ownership: not so glamorous

Well, the exciting thing around our house this week involved our entire master bedroom closet collapsing. The long board attached to the wall finally gave way after 30 years of tension, and that board was the only thing holding up the pole/rod and all of our clothes and stuff.

I've been spending nap time today and yesterday browsing online for different closet systems and equipment we can install ourselves instead of just re-screwing the old, sagging board and rod back in there. I've dreamily looked at the custom closets with drawers, shoe compartments, varying height hanging rods, etc., but we will probably get some wire shelves and rods and install them ourselves. It'll still be nicer than what we had. Meanwhile, all of our clothes are neatly piled in strategic places around the house!

5 comments:

Ricci said...

Bummer! Isn't it discusting how much stuff like that can cost!

Sheyb said...

Sorry to hear about the Katie! Sheesh! I rememeber living in Brea, CA and our house was SOOO old! SOOO many things were broken, and needed fixing! Hang in there! Soon enough... you will have it the way you like it. ;)

Robin said...

That stinks... go to the Container store! They are having 30% off their closet shelving systems!

Lucy said...

boo no fun. hey sister. sure am sorry you couldn't be here this weekend for the wedding. thinking about you! love you and hope yu can come up with something cost effective to fix the closet!

Andy and Sara said...

If anything has to sag, good thing it's a closet...but that's not much of a brightside...it's still sagging. I like Ikea's stuff--some of their stuff is junk, but some is really nice and the prices are so reasonable. Hope you can find something efficient and affordable!