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| Upper cabinets to be re-purposed |
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| The closet being replaced by stairs & linen cabinet |
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| Original upstairs hall closet & stairs |
When renovating the upstairs of the Redwoodshire house, we lost a large hall closet to the new stairs that were installed. Originally we were going to put in a more shallow linen closet, in the same place where the old closet was. But with the newly vaulted ceilings and L-shaped stairs, we thought that a floor-to-ceiling closet would take away from the new openness of the ceilings. As with any old farmhouse, the closets are small or all together absent. We needed something to make up for the lost storage space. We re-purposed a long stretch of upper kitchen cabinets, into a linen cabinet for our upstairs landing.
We hired a contractor to do the renovation work & stairs. We re-purposed & installed the cabinet. As can be seen from the original hall closest photos, the ceilings were extremely low (just higher than the door trim). The closet was removed for the new staircase and the ceilings were raised to the rafters. This change made an amazing difference to the feel of the upstairs. We originally want to raise the ceilings of the entire upstairs, but the cost of the whole project was more than we had anticipated. We decided to leave the 2 smaller bedrooms (children's bedrooms) with the low ceilings, and vaulted the landing, master bedroom and the bathroom.
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| The closet removed & the ceilings raised to the rafters |
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New carpets installed. Chandelier hung. Cabinet stained and installed.
We found that the kitchen cabinet was re-faced with cedar boards & doors. We decided to continue the theme and covered the back of the cabinet with stained cedar boards (varying widths). This gave it somewhat of an old barn look. The stain used was the same color that was used on the stair treads- Miniwax Provincial.
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| We covered the top of the cabinet with cedar planks & included an "N" for our last name! |
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