Wardrobe Story

Peter recently constructed a wardrobe at Gembrook Retreat. The wall could have simply been boarded up except that there was an inset space to a brick wall which was set back. And there was a spare wooden louvered cupboard door just hanging about. In fact, there was a lot of available material to make a cupboard fixture.

So these were the steps.

• Start the construction and suddenly find that existing stud work is all out of plumb.


• Effectively start again and checking for square and re-measuring at each shelf level .


• Instead of an "L" shaped shelves, decide to make each level as two separate rectangular shelves that are detachable. Not sure if they work.


• Clad outside and inside, fix shelf brackets, and install shelves. They work well.


• Search about the suburbs for a matching door for the open space above. Find that the wooden louvered door type is no longer in fashion That's a blow. Check out a giant second hand house parts place and still not find one that will fit! But through divine guidance find a pair (on a clearance sale) that can be jigged to look like they were designed to be there.


• Do the jiggering and hang these higher doors. They look OK. Praise God.


• Fix thin shelves outside the wardrobe to fit snug behind the swing of the bedroom door. Done!