This closet used to be part of a porch...the house is about hundred years old and had a wrap around porch. Well some decades back Momma closed in two sides of it and left a porch that you can only get to by the front steps. Rather an odd arrangement but it did make for a great storage closet space.
This closet gets like a freezer in the winter time so going in to get your clothes is an issue of potential frost bite. That is mostly where we store Hubby's clothes....
That is until yesterday. He has found that a shelf system works best for his clothing....I guess it comes from years of being in the military and wearing the same outfit day in and day out and always hung on a hanger in the closet.... clothes in drawers are a challenge for him.
Well, anyway, I decided to move his shelf into the bedroom but in order to do that I had to move our cedar chest (and the stuff piled on top of it) out of the space where the shelf needed to go. Daunting work all this moving mess around. I called in my strong Hubby and asked him to help me for a couple of minutes.
We managed to get things moved without damage to woodwork, antique furniture, or our cedar chest. After all the military moves you can be assured that there is an adequate share of bumps to give it lots of character. Long ago it lost a small section of a handle and before that a section of the brass trim got wrinkled up a tad.
Back to the closet. I organized the area where the shelf had stood and the cedar chest had been placed. I moved some book boxes around (That is probably why I woke up this morning with excruciating pain in my neck.) and overall found the few knitting things I was looking for. The stuff that I have packed in the corners can stay there until spring. Insulation, ya know from the winter cold!