I think we’re all just going to have to resign ourselves to the fact that my walk-in closet will never be finished. It’s the never-ending project. It just keeps going and going and going. I’ll still be working on little details at this time next year, and then the following year, until the day I breathe my final breath. This is it for me. There won’t be a workshop. There won’t be a new kitchen with a walk-through pantry. There won’t be a new dining room. There won’t be a new addition. Heck, there may never be a new bedroom. Matt and I will just sleep in the breakfast room from here on out, into our old age, while I continue working on my walk-in closet.
That’s how it’s starting to feel. I’m so tired of working on this room. I get so incredibly antsy at this phase of every project, when most of the big things are finished and the room, at a glance, looks like it’s almost finished. And yet, the list of those finishing details seems to grow rather than get shorter with each passing day.
I had high hopes that I’d be able to show y’all a finished closet island today, but it was not meant to be. I’ve mentioned a number of times before that my brain simply doesn’t think in numbers. If people start throwing numbers and math at me, my brain seizes up. Numbers and math and fractions and formulas are my nemeses. So I won’t go into detail, but I will just say that installing the drawers in the island yesterday was just about one of the most frustrating things I’ve ever done. I just couldn’t get the math and the spacing between the drawers right to save my life. And because I wasted so much time on what should have been a relatively simple process, I didn’t have enough time to finish making the drawer fronts and doors. *Sigh* I’ll give it another go today.
Anyway, on to a few other details. First, I’ve decided that the window shade on the window is going to be enough. For the last couple of days, I’ve had it just like this on the window…
It’s open enough to let some sunlight in while covering enough of the window for privacy. So I don’t think I’ll need anything else on the window. I’m just going to stick with the window shade and forgo the idea of privacy film on the window and see how that works out.
Also, I’ve decided that I don’t want to use the sconces I already have over the washer and dryer. If you’ll remember, I was going to use these sconces from the breakfast room…
But I don’t think I’ll have enough room for those sconces. You can see in the picture above how much space they take up, and since I’m hanging my artwork above two very tall cabinet in the walk-in closet, and then the sconces need to go above the pictures, I think it’ll be a very tight fit.
And right now, the artwork is sitting on the countertop and leaning. Once they’re hung on the wall about three or four inches above the cabinets, there will be even less space.
And yes, I really do want sconces even though I already have so much lighting in the room, and I want them for two reasons. First, I just love the way that sconces or picture lights accent artwork. And since these are covered with the sparkly goodness of a thick layer of cut glass glitter, I want them to be bathed in light so that they sparkle.
But also, I very often go through my day without turning on overhead lights. The other day, I was in the kitchen cooking lunch for Matt and my mom walked in. She looked around and said, “Do you not have electricity?” I hadn’t realized that I had no lights on in the kitchen. That’s very normal for me. But I do like soft accent lighting to be on in the evening once the sun goes down. Every single night, once it gets dark, I turn on the sconces in the kitchen, and that’s all the light I generally use in there no matter what I’m doing.
The same goes with the hallway bathroom. When I remodeled the bathroom, I added tape lighting inside the open shelves…
And those lights have been on ever since. They provide a nice, soft glow of light at night, and about 99.9% of the time, I never turn on the overhead light.
So all of that to say that I like soft accent lighting, so it’s very possible that I’ll put some very low LED bulbs in those sconces and just keep them on all the time. I’ll probably do the same thing with the sconces over in the wallpapered cabinet section of the closet.
With all of that said, I’ve been trying to find plug-in wall sconces that I like. They can’t be very tall, so no tall gooseneck sconces or anything like that. And I don’t want anything really fancy or eye-catching. I just want a simple design that can provide some soft, glowing light at night. And I’d really like to them to be gold and white. I’ve found a few that may work.
I like everything about these except for that white wall plate. I wish that part was gold instead of white. I think the white makes it look cheap, but I could always paint them. These are from Amazon (affiliate link). These are $59.99 for a pair. I really do like the overall shape, but that white backplate is just awful.
This one is also from Amazon (affiliate link). I like it better, but of course, it costs more than the one above. This is $89.99 for one sconce.
And then there’s this one, also from Amazon (affiliate link). This one is $62.99 for one sconce.
As much as I love the price of the first one, I don’t think I want to purchase something that I have to paint right out of the box. So I’ll probably go with one of the other two, and I really like both of them.
But now, back to the island. I need to get this thing wrapped up by the end of the day. The good news is that the math is behind me, for the most part. From here on out, it’s just some simple measuring and cutting, and I’m generally pretty good at that. Not always, but generally.
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
