Use the closet for a headboard to create more space in the bedroom.
While you typically use closet space for storage, think outside the box with your room design and decorate a wide, shallow closet into a one-of-a-kind headboard. If you are decorating in a sports theme for your little athlete, use a twin-size bed. This allows you to preserve storage space while giving you a little more floor space in the room. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Remove the door or doors from the closet. Leave the top shelf.
2. Clean everything out of the closet and paint the interior the same color as the lockers or the walls of the room.
3. Measure the width of the closet and the width and height of the twin bed. Calculate the width between the sides of the bed and the side walls inside the closet. Write down all your measurements before you obtain the accessories for the closet headboard.
4. Buy decorative lockers to fit the closet and bed space specifications. Set the lockers against the left and right walls in the closet, and be sure there is space to open the lockers' doors. Use one locker if space is limited. The lockers become your clothes-hanging space.
5. Mount a door basketball hoop to the wall in the center of the closet, about 18 inches above where the top of the bed hits and beneath the top shelf. Many of these hoops come with wall brackets and mounting screws. If yours does not have them, a quick trip to the hardware store and a drill will take care of everything.
6. Place two or three plastic milk crates on the top shelf for storage space.
7. Push the head of the bed up against the back wall of the closet. The bed should fit snugly in between the two lockers. The basketball hoop will hang about 1 1/2 feet directly above the pillow.
Tags: basketball hoop, closet headboard, closet space, storage space
