7 Cool closet doors. Of sorts.

Did you ever read that post about the fake closet I built in our Swiss Army Room?  It cost all of 50 dollars (see how I built it).

Much to my surprise that post turned out to be one of the most popular ones in my blog and Flickr. Go figure. If you haven't read it you can see where I started, and the final stage. I mentioned in that last post that the flowers pinned to the curtains were just temporary until I came up with a better idea.

Well, I think I now did.

This is the closet before. Check the new "doors" after the jump.

OK, whether this was a good idea or not is open to interpretation. I think it is mucho cool.

You see, tthis cannot be a closet if it doesn't have doors, right? The thing is that I still cannot afford doors. At least not real ones.

So, I added fake doors,  drawers and shelves to my fake closet.

I also got rid of the rope-as-rods thingie and re-used the curtain rods from the window in the same room (I am making something different for the window). Now the curtains roll smoothly.

On the left side the curtain has two doors, the one on the right has two doors, as well as open shelves and drawers. They look like the first sketches designers usually make when they come up with an idea. Although the lines are pretty straight, they still have the waviness that comes naturally when creating quick sketches.

And if you think I drew them, you'd be wrong. I am not one to take the easy way out (or the smarter way out, my husband would almost certainly add).

The first step (after a quick sketch on paper, of course) was to draw everything on the canvas using vanishing ink marker. Then I machine-sewed  it using a loose zigzag stitch. Maneuvering a very large and heavy piece of canvas in a small sewing machine was the hardest part.

The text was also stitched in the sewing machine.  From a couple of meters away you can barely see it's sewed, it looks hand-drawn. Those are some of the flowers that were pinned to the canvas before.

For the doors and drawers I used pieces of matching felt as handles and pulls. They also look like ink from afar.

This is the right side. Can you see my sewing machine and serger on the shelves? Now I just need a few thousand bucks to get an actual, real closet custom-made for the space. In the meantime, these curtains bring a smile to my face every time I see them. I hope my guests like them too when they stay in the room.

I am a big fan of mixing design with whimsy and humor, I just can't take most things seriously anyway.