Before and After #37 - Sliding Wardrobe

The first thing to do was remove the existing wardrobe bits and the little walls surrounding them.  

That left large sections requiring plaster repairs and although I had originally thought that I’d hire a plasterer and a builder for a day or two each for this project, after getting a solid dose of price-shock ordering the carpet I decided I would have to do  the plastering myself, since most of the area needing plastering would be hidden behind the new wardrobe.    So a few youtube videos later (and a billion trips for supplies from bunnings), I dove right in..

Despite the mess and the dust, by some miracle it actually turned out pretty well, so I was able to paint the room and ceiling before calling in extra assistance from Clare for the start of the construction.

So it was a few steps backwards as I pulled them all out of their position and sanded down the floor where I needed to and chocked up other corners until I had a perfect fit.  

Then I could do the fun stuff of putting all the shelves and drawers and fancy things into them. Yay!

Then it was the challenge of the 4 sliding doors.  I’d ordered 2 in frosted white glass and two were mirror glass. They were all big and heavy and this was a daunting task especially as the ikea instructions suggested that I’d need identical twins for the job and I didn’t know any.  

I built what I could through the day then got Jon to wear a matching top to mine as he helped me hang the doors when he got home from work.   By some other miracle they went on pretty well too (once I realised I’d installed one of the rails upside-down, and made a few running fixes to where the two long rails joined.  By this time in the project I’d used just about every power tool I’d owned, including the angle grinder to fix the sliding rails.yay tools