Closet room project: Part 2 - Finished!

OK, so if you saw my post from earlier in the week, you read that I had a little mini project in my closet room. Well, I am happy to report that this project is now complete! You can see the original photos of my closet room here.

The mission of this mini reno was to:

1. Replace the rug

2. Replace the shoes shelves

3. Switch out all the hangers to the slimline, velvet type

I decided to turn my chair to face my shoes, for obvious reasons.

I'm still crazy amazed with this rug. So cheap for the quality, free shipping, and simply perfect. I had to shift things around a little to make more room for the shoe shelves. I had a luggage rack by my armoire that held a bin of purses, which I ended up moving to my closet room closet so that I could place the dress form in its place.

Here you can see how I switched all my plastic hangers to the velvet kind. Looking back, I wish I had chosen black hangers instead. The first batch of hangers I bought for my dresses and pants. I ordered them through the Container Store, which was great, but they were pretty pricey at almost $1 per hanger. I ended up finding them for half the price at places like Ross and Marshall's. The problem though is that they are all random brands, which means random shades of beige. You can see the difference in this photo. Had I picked black instead, you'd never notice they were mismatched brands. I was 3/4 through with the room before I reached this epiphany. Oh well! Still good as is.

I love how well the color coordinating reads with my pants!

So, before I had these purses and wrislets/clutches in their boxes set on top of my tallest shoe "tower." This new tower I bought is significantly taller than the one I had before, so it wasn't really conducive to setting too much stuff on top of it. Now that I had extra wall space, I decided to buy shelves, one with hooks so that I could hang my small evening type bags. Then, I used the shelf itself to showcase my prized bag possessions.

I was able to meet Clinton Kelly in person, so it only felt  appropriate that his autograph be set on top of my shoe tower.

OK, so the shelves are the "Billy" shelves from Ikea in black-brown (half height bookcase, tall bookcase, glass doors.)

Ahhh. I can't stop looking at this, it's so beautiful. I really really wish that I had enough shelving space to eliminate all of my boxes, but alas, I can deal with it. There were only 3-5 dressy, high heel type shoes that I was not able to fit in the cabinets. The rest are flats or flat sandals. Not that I love them any less! I hated choosing which shoes would be openly displayed! I am an equal opportunity shoe wearer!