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Good plan, but do some painting too, white is plain... also, man those doors are narrow!

Either that or I'm just used to the 34" and 36" doors in our house.

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Craig-
If it were me, I would install a higher-than-normal little "ceiling" in there and inset a lampholder up and underneath. You can fit it with a 15 watt bulb for softly lighting the equipment and later, if you move, put glass shelves in there instead and say it's a curios thingie.

I know ALL 'dem deco-ratin' terms!

Spiff - I think that this will be a good look, as long as you do the finish work that you've described.

Questions:
1. Is it one continual long closet w/ 2 doors?
2. If not, what's in between the two closets?
3. Judging by the picture and what appears to be the kitchen, it looks like the closet is not extremely deep. Is this the case? If so, have you looked at how much this is going to trim off of your walking space? If it's a lot, you may actually hurt your future sales options. People are picky about their closet space.

Suggestion: Be careful when you first cut into the wall. With two electrical switches nearby, who knows if there is any crazy wire routing in there.....or even some pipes running through. It may be worth cutting out a small horizintal strip to take a look at what's behind there before you dig a huge chunk of your drywall out.

Good Luck

I want Mark to come do my house. Great idea.

Craig, I'm with Turbodog; don't forget that you're going to lose a big chunk of closet floorspace in this process. I'd be tempted to just put those switches IN the closet, if that's what they control. Cleaner and easier, I'd think.

Craig-

Nice setup. Are you going to stick with the Boston Cherry finish? I say you do a custom color for this set, instead. Be daring. Go wild. You only live once if you're lucky. Since a few people think you should change the paint scheme on the walls from white to something else, maybe you should try to find a cool looking custom color that would go well with the room? Just something else to think about.

Good luck-
Kev

1) It's on continual closet space.

2) That's the bathroom...It's fairly deep, and there's already a bookcase against the wall that the gear would be sitting in. So it wouldn't be much deep than what's already there.

3) We just did paint! It's not realy white, it's almond cream. We're NOT painting again! It was a huge hassle!

4) Removing both switches from the wall and just having the switch inside the closet is a better idea. Thanks.

5) Nice trim and interior lighting would indeed be nice.

6) Showed Roger the before and after pics last night and he's not keen on the in-wall gear. He's an odd one.

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Showed Roger the before and after pics last night and he's not keen on the in-wall gear.

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Sign him up on these boards, we'll talk to him!