Wardrobes....

Finally the robe inserts have been finished in our WIR...it was a nightmare.....told you in a previous post that i got the measurements wrong, at least Tony was able to get around that by cutting off the ends to the appropriate lengths....so, we did the hanging wall first....came up really well, started on the shelving/drawer section....this wall has shelving on both ends and two sets of 4 drawers with two shelves above in the middle sections.  Did the first shelving section easily enough, then we started on the first of the drawers....with no instructions we were going off the "what screws, went with what" to try and build it.....after scratching our heads for awhile we finally figured it out.....made up the first of our drawers...easy...yay!!, went in to put the tracks on.....first on fitted...the second one wanted to sit out at the end.....much too-ing and fro-ing and head scratching....so Tony measured the distances of the pre-drilled holes...yep, the RHS holes had been drilled wrong...some how they had transposed the measurements, I am so lucky that i have a handy and resourceful husband....he just drilled some more  holes in the right spots....works like a charm :)
Started the second unit....god damm it!! the silly morrons had totally mucked up one of the side panels....they had put the melamine on the edges on the wrong side, so the part that faces us was pure chipboard, while the back wall got to look at the melamine.......fixed it.....looked at the same pieces in the inserts for the Craft room robes...even here they had mucked up by giving us two left hand sides and no right side....so we nicked one of them and put the holes where they were supposed to be......making this unit was a cinch as we now knew what we were doing.....
Next came the hard side, the last lot of shelving which had to be cut down.....but Tony managed to get everything under control, just alot of fiddleing around.
The end product was worth it...they really look great, just as i had imagined them.

The Craft room inserts are now going to go into the garage, we will put a backing board on them to hold them together.....we have to order new ones for the craft room as i had once again badly miscalculated...it is such a bother getting old....but this time I had made the mistake almost 18months ago when designing them...with a wall of just under 1.8m, I wanted shelves on both ends (so they'd fit into the robe) and two lots of drawers....what did i order?.....two shelving units and only 1 set of drawers, only realised it when we went to check out the drawer units and i could only find one not two.....I was so angry with myself....I hate making simple mistakes like that.  I suppose we are lucky that we can reuse what i did order.  Now the thought is that we won't order the new arrangement until after Adee n Ash have moved into their own place, this way they can bring their tall boy with them to keep their clothes in.

Waiting to start Kellys, well, we are waiting for the painter to come back and paint the internals of both her robe and the craft room robes.

See...just like a bought one...