How To Design A Closet – Open Concept

Learn how to design a closet – open concept – and make your bedroom feel bigger and create more closet space.

If you are following along with our French Country Cottage fixer-upper (if you missed the before tour then check it out here), then you remember the master bedroom was small with old purple carpet and side by side double closets with bi-fold doors from the sixties.

The first thing we did was to remove the carpet and the bi-fold doors.  We quickly discovered there was beautifully preserved red oak hardwood flooring underneath all of that carpet! 

By the way, if you missed my post on Choosing the Best Farmhouse Style Floor stain, then read it here!!

How To Design A Closet – Open Concept

Deconstruction

Let the deconstruction begin! 

My plan was to open the closets from floor to ceiling into the rest of the bedroom and frame it out with old barn beams to help define the space.

What a difference taking it up to the ceiling makes.

Primer is on!  This picture looks like a creepy isolation room in a hospital ward or something. 

Nope.  Just our bedroom.

How To Design A Closet – Open Concept

Barn Beams

I found these 150 year old barn beams for sale on Facebook marketplace.

Zach and I – correction – Zach cut them down to size and loaded our treasures into our amazing mini-van turned work truck (checkout my review on our Chrysler Pacifica here)!

Installing authentic barn beams on the ceiling is not a DIY project for a beginner, but for a tutorial on how to install barn beams on a ceiling click here!

How To Design A Closet – Open Concept

Closet Organization System

Once we framed out the closet space the next step was to install the closet system.  We bought the Closet Maid Suite Symphony 25-Inch Closet Organizer with Shelves, 2 Doors and 4 Drawers in Pure White for Zach’s side.

For my side we bought the Closet Maid Suite Symphony 25-Inch Closet Organizer with Shelves in Pure White.

The shelves can be customized with these doors, various size drawers, or in my case, these shoe shelves!

The shelf unit fit 9 of these shoe shelves.  Each shelf fits approximately 3 pairs of shoes facing inward.

As per the usual putting these shelving units together was a dusty and messy family affair.

It’s ok Lily.  This is how I frequently feel when looking at instruction manuals too.

Gracie helped put in all the nails!

Caleb helped destroy all the boxes!

Lily helped with the cuteness factor.

And Mommy put in lots and lots of screws.  But in the end . . . worth it!!  Before and afters below!

 

How To Design A Closet – Open Concept

Closet – Before

 

Closet – After

Her Side – Before

Her Side – After

 

His Side – Before

His Side – After

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