Would you paint this linen closet black?
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How do you keep the linen closet fresh?
Comments (3)I used to buy bar soap in bulk. (I now make my own) I would open only one end of the soap and slide it in the corner of every drawer. I had some of them in there for years. My clothes always came out smelling fresh and clean. I now make soaps and sachets in my preferred scents and do the same. When the scent starts getting weak I replace the soap with a fresh one and use the bar I had in the drawer. It is nice and aged so it lasts a lot longer than a freshly made bar....See Morewhat do you keep in your linen closet...& how do you organize it?
Comments (31)You could actually do a couple different things. You could have one rod and use hangers. You would have to fold them a bit to fit on the hanger and not drag on the floor, but that's usually how they come from the cleaners. For heavy cloths, use two hangers together for added strength. You could also hang multiple rods at slightly different heights and depths. If you have a walk in closet this works great, but will still work with a reach in. Hang the highest rod the farthest back, then one a bit lower and closer and even a third lower and closer than the second. Then you can hang the cloths right on the rod instead of on a hanger. I like the rod because of it's larger diameter it doesn't leave creases in the cloths. You can also overlap them on these rods. For optimum use of space, you'd need to use multiple rods and overlap. Is that totally confusing?!...See MoreDo you have a linen closet ?
Comments (8)When we didn't have a linen closet or space for an extra dresser I kept the linens in underbed boxes. Because I was hard up for cash, I used the plain cardboard ones and they worked just fine. Our linens currently occupy a dresser that is serving double duty in our bedroom as a tv stand. Line your dresser drawers to keep out the "old wood" smell. (I don't think very many people do that anymore.) Some people like the scented ones but I think they are always too strong and too artificial - wallpaper (which can often be found free or dirt cheap), butcher/freezer paper, or contact paper (the "peelable" sort that will come off without leaving sticky junk) works just fine. If pockets are deeper there are shelf/drawer liners made of real cedar veneer that are nice too. My elderly relatives stored their bar soaps in the linen drawers to keep things smelling nice and because they thought aging the soap hardened it and made it last longer. (That is true for real soap based on lye and oil/fat, but not the detergent bars that pass for soap most of the time these days. But who even uses bar soap anymore? It's all liquids and gels these days.) In times past sachets were always little girls' first sewing projects. At any health-food store these days you can get muslin drawstring "tea bags" which you can fill with the lavender flowers, bay leaves, chamomile, cloves, whatever purchased at the same place. (Of course you can put the same stuff in a piece of old nylon hose or a fine-knit sock like a baby sock, but the muslin bag is much prettier and costs maybe fifty cents.) Throwing one of these bags of lavender flowers into the dryer blows ANY commercial dryer sheet right out of the water - you just have to make sure it is tied tight. I make these for holiday gifts and they always go over wonderfully, perhaps because the fancy-pants "boo-teeks" ;-) have started carrying them for upwards of three dollars apiece! (They cost me about 25 cents to make, since I can get the makings from a wholesaler who will sell to the public.) Cedar blocks are nice but they have to be sanded every so often to refresh the scent. Towels - how about one of these hotel-style wall-mounted towel holders? They are fabulous for fitting a lot of towels into a very small space in the bathroom. For towels that must be hung up flat (like if they're "in rotation"), here's a site with several hinge-mounted towel racks that hide four to six towels behind the door. The "Duo" shower curtain rod and towel bar is also pretty cool, looks a little nicer than just draping the towels over the shower curtain rod....See MoreWould you paint closet door wall color?
Comments (24)Silver, I agree about the effect of glossy versus flat. I guess I think of a white room with white closets. I did a google images search for those, because in my mind that is the same as beige walls with beige closets, or blue walls with blue closets. To me, when the doors have that much detail, painting them out doesnÂt make them disappear, because in being the same color as the walls but with such a different surface texture, they still stand out - only now it looks like one is trying to hide them and not succeeding. But, and I firmly believe this and say it all the time, it is YOUR space. You should do what works for YOU. There is no right or wrong, just choices and personal taste. So, if painting the door and trim in the wall color will make the room work better for you, then you should do it! Maybe what you should do, with your talent, is paint small paintings on canvas (perhaps a series of floral studies or nature studies) and apply those to the panels in the door( or paint directly on the door, I guess, but then you canÂt remove them and sell them), paint out the surrounding door to look like a darker frame, and create a great focal point!...See MoreUser
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