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Now that our electrical work has been completed and we have more than triple the amount of power available to us than we used to, we've moved onto our next project, the closet flip. Why on earth would you flip a closet you ask?

Due to the layout of our house our laundry options were a little limited. We could either have a washer on one side of the kitchen, and a dryer on the other, or pay way too much money to move gas and water lines into the existing closet. Strangely enough, it was cheaper to flip the closets than to re-route all of the necessary pipes.

The flip consists of this: What is now a closet in the hall will become a flat wall, and the space to the right of the old closet doors, which is currently a wall, will become a closet complete with a sneaky pocket door. The 3rd bedroom, which is behind this wall will have basically the same procedure. What is now the closet will become a wall, which will serve as the back to the new closet, and what was wall will become a closet door for the 3rd bedroom.

Here are some mid-construction pictures.

Looking from the living room down the hall. Space on right used to be a wall, space on left used to be a closet.

Looking from the back of the house forward. The empty closet on left is the old one, which will now have a door in the room instead of the hallway, and the wall on the right is the new wall for the new laundry closet.

Washer dryer hookup in the new closet.

So far, it looks terrific. The only holdup now is that our pocket door frame has yet to arrive as expected. Its putting a bit of a delay on our construction, but to no fault of our awesome contractor.

Once the project is finished the house will have a designated laundry area that had never existed. What's that little house, you're trying to improve our investment already? Thanks buddy.

PS. Below is a picture of our beautified mesquite tree.