Office Closet

For the Office Closet, we wanted storage for all of our office supplies, a home for our network printer and paper shredder, and a little room for guests to hang a dress or suit and maybe a robe or towel. Luckily we planned ahead and had the closet wired for lighting (again, an overhead light inside the door frame), electrical and ethernet for the printer.

To figure out what type of spaces we would need for office supplies and files, we laid out most of what we were hoping to stash. I spent about two days unpacking 15 boxes of office stuff and sorting through/getting rid of items. Here’s the pile of stuff we need to find other homes for or get rid of:

And the stuff that’s actually office or guest bedroom related (some of these boxes are even empty!):

Again, most of the shelves and hanging standards we needed were left over from New York so it took just a few additional elements and some major tweaking. We knew we wanted to repurpose a drawer unit that had been acting as a dresser and because of its depth and drawer extension, it could only go one place. The diagram:

Here’s the closet mid-installation (and Greg admiring our work):

And the final product (with a guest hoodie and robe hanging from door hooks):

More detail of the drawer unit:

The top four drawers hold office and design supplies and printer paper and toner. The larger drawers on the bottom have boxes for office-related discs and cables, wedding stuff including photos, and other supplies for house projects. Every drawer and shelf will have labels soon.

Close-ups of the closet rod for guests (now holding the tux Greg borrowed from a friend), and all of our files and photo boxes: