Master Closet Built-Ins

I’ve been building these built-in wardrobes for my Master Closet for four months so I can’t even express how happy I am to finally say, “IT IS FINISHED!” It is amazing to have so much space to hang and store our clothes. I’m so happy that I stuck it out — even though I wanted to throw in the towel a few times.

Master Closet Built-Ins

The large drawers are practically big enough to climb in and have 100 lb. glides that are soft/self closing (for the person in this house that never manages to get drawers fully closed! u-hem, u-hem)

The door you can see is to the laundry room and behind the camera is the Master Bathroom that will be getting redone sometime. That project will include tearing a portion of the closet/bathroom wall out so I haven’t built my 9’x6′ shoe cabinet yet.

Then, of course, there’s the matter of the built-in ironing board that is going in next to that off-center window and the rolling ladder… so the closet is only mostly done!

(Who just thought of Princess Bride, “…he’s only MOSTLY dead”? I did!)

But it’s usable!

white painted cabinets in built-in closet

Walk in closet before

It’s leaps and bounds better than it was when we moved in.

master closet remodel - before and after photos

And we are going to enjoy it!!!

Custom made closets with white built-in cabinets

In case you missed my progress updates along the way, here’s a short recap of my project. As well as a celebratory happy dance!

A HUGE thank you to Wes for his help this weekend. I was ready to toss in a match last week. Thankfully Wes pulled some “enthusiasm for using a drill” out of nowhere and came through for me!

It’s been a long, hard journey and now that it’s (mostly) done, I can say it was worth it! Now, we can move in and enjoy the holidays. And hopefully my next project won’t be QUITE so involved or time consuming. Here’s hoping!

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259 Comments

Hi. Love the closet. Quick question, for the cabinets on the end, did you double up the plywood/MDF? From the pictures looks like your face board is wider than 1/2 but it appears to not stick out into the cabinet. On the video it wasn’t shown the end piece. Thanks!

I built my cabinets on top of a base because I prefer how that looks. If you are accumulating dust bunnies along the baseboard now, removing the baseboard won’t change that much. They will just gather in the bottom of the lower cabinet or at the base of the cabinet. Just sweep often I guess.

I can’t believe I haven’t seen this closet before. It’s just gorgeous. I was just surfing pinterest for ideas before building cabinets for my closet when I found this. I’ve been see-sawing about whether to put mine on a base (because I’m short and that makes the rod that much higher), and wondered if you did it for looks or for dust bunny control, or some other reason. I just hate the way dust bunnies seem to grow along my baseboard in my current closet, so that’s the reason I’m considering the bases.