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Do it yourself closet systems

We looked at 3 different closet system companies. California Closets and two online companies, easyclosets.com and closetstogo.com. California closets was nice but pretty pricey. One thing California closets had going for them were these pull out hamper bags. We liked these a lot better than the tilt out hamper or even wire baskets. Easyclosets and closetstogo were both significantly cheaper than California closets but you have to install the system yourself. We ended up going with closetstogo.com primarily because they had a better mounting brackets for the side panels (more like California closets hardware) and the fact that you could also get the exact same hamper bags as Cal closets minus the Cal closet label.



Here we have three drawers plus a pull out hamper. Installation wasn't too difficult but it did take a while. Removing all of the pieces from the boxes took 3 hours by itself.


Here's the exact same drawer and hamper section plus our only long hanging section.


I think someone needs to go shoe shopping now....maybe I shouldn't have gotten so many shelves. By putting in a pocket door, we were able to utilize the wall space for shelves. Much better use of the space than before.

I'm 13 months old now!

Can you see it? My tooth. It only took 12.5 months. I'll be commanding top dollar now once I can show my pearly whites.

No bathroom is complete without a....

I finally installed the toilet. Overall it was pretty easy although the bolt that holds it to the floor kept coming out of the flange slot. Whenever I have to tighten something I usually tighten it too much. In plumbing I noticed you usually only tighten things just beyond hand tight. They'll say something like hand tighten and then 1/4 turn beyond. However for the toilet, they said, "tighten but not too tight so that you don't break the porcelain". Can you get any more vague? You want to make sure the toilet is secure but go too far and you break the toilet.


Here's the drain with the flange on it. On a side note, our A/C is finally working again in the house. We've spent the last two nights without any A/C. The temp in the house would get up to 87.

Chow time

We are finally transitioning Lauren from baby food to table food. Here she is enjoying some salmon, broccoli, beans, and cheese. She doesn't care for the beans too much. Lauren still doesn't have any teeth although one is about to pop any day now. This is good thing since Lauren will need her teeth to protect herself. She was recently bitten by another toddler at daycare. You can see the red marks on her arm left by the attacker. I'll be sure to say hi to the little toddler tomorrow morning.