Using a foam brush I coat the inside of my small closet floor with Varathane tripe thick. The sander smooths out the floor so I can add a new sealer. This is my sander HEREand this is my vacuum HERE. I also do the same in my shop with my shop vac attachment and the sander. This works great for small projects, but I do have to gently hold the attachment in place while I work. It doesn’t snap in or clip in, but it stays enough for me to get the job done. The vacuum sucks up the dust and prevents it from blowing all over my bedroom. To keep the sanding dust to a minimum I remove the dust bag and insert my vacuum attachment. Without going overboard, I am sanding the closet floor using my Dewalt orbital sander. There is also a very visible line where the old door track was. Part of the floor is unfinished (the wood under the step) and part is finished from when we had the floors redone when we bought the house. Since the floor step is removed now the finish on the wooden floor is uneven. This part was Brian’s oops, so he got to fix it □ The Closet Floor The hole required a bit of mesh along with spackle, but the repairs are made. The holes, dents, dings and any damage is patched and spackled. I did that part by myself with a lot of bad words and yelling. The bottom step is torn out, as well as the metal door tracks from the original doors. The wooden trim around the inside wall is removed. hehe Somehow I have accumulated around 30 pairs of jeans! How is this even possible? I can also say that some of the clothes look better on her than they ever looked on me. This is always a good time to PURGE! If there are clothes that no longer fit, you no longer like or wear, no longer need, etc – purge! I threw out anything that wasn’t worth giving away and gave a large bag full of clothes to a fellow mom and friend. I even found my old high school art drawing. Oh my! Yes, the inside of the closet is pink with a sort of step built on the floor, I suppose that was for shoes, maybe? I’d also guess that the inside of this closet has not been painted since the 1950s. The very first thing to do in this small closet organization makeover is to remove those old doors and empty the closet out completely. Before We Can Start Organizing a Small Closet In case you are wondering, opening up the wall to make the closet larger is not an option because it would make my daughters closet smaller (and her closet is much smaller than mine). Um, they don’t look at all like wood! As an added aggravation, the doors don’t even stay on the tracks making this closet renovation that much more needed. This small closet is the original to the house with metal sliding doors that are supposed to look like wood. To give an idea of how small the closet is that we are organizing, it measures appx 52″ wide by 23″ deep.
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