After magically fitting all of my stuff into my car on the drive back home from school, and seeing the subsequent lack of stuff my roommate had to pack, I decided it was time to get serious about cutting out clutter. The first step is organizing my clothes.
At home, I have a small closet 78" tall, 88" wide, and 24" deep. It has a hanging rod and simple shelves and it does a great job at not organizing my clothes. Thus, my newest project is building a closet organizer. Last summer, I built one for my parents' walk in closet seen above. The left side is for my dad's stuff and the right side for my mom. She wanted more drawer space and he wanted more hanging/shelf space. The doors cover up shelves. The boxes were made out of AC ply, the doors and drawer fronts a birch veneer, and the drawers are baltic birch with half blind dovetail joints.
I put together a pretty simply design for my closet on google SketchUp, basically a series of boxes creating space for hanging rods, drawers, a tie rack, and a dressing counter. The carcass is probably going to be just AC plywood- I like the industrial look of the AC ply. I am also planning on keeping the edge grain exposed. The drawers will also be baltic birch with dovetailed joints. The baltic birch is super stable, which makes it great for drawers and the edge grain looks great when dovetailed. Instead of pulls and a drawer front, the drawers will have a semicircle notch cut out so that they can be opened. The drawers fit in the two boxes in the middle, 6 on each side, and the pullout tie rack is the tall narrow box in the center.
