So,i was thinking...

[livie1205]

about taking off the folding closet doors in my dd4 room and putting up a nice curtain and curtain rod...has anyone one here done this? Do you have pics?We are giving her room a makeover from baby room to big girl room.We took out the carpet (I hate carpet)and put in wood floors (same as living area and our room) and covered the bright pink paint with soft baby pink on the bottom and a victorian lace color on top with white molding in the middle.I painted a few soft purple dragonflys on the wall (small) and I am hanging her black and white ballet photos on the wall in black frames.
She has cream colored furniture , a armore (sp?) and a full sleigh bed.She picked all the colors and even asked for the wood floors! I HATE her closet doors though..they always come off the track and are a pain!I thought about a nice wood curtain rod and maybe a off white linen curtain.I just wanted to see pics of someones elses project to see how it looks.I also found her a cute little sign for her wall that is a dark green wood with gold trim that says " ONE SHOE CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE,- CINDERELLA" it is very cute. thanks in advance...

 

[java]

We did this in my teenage son's room not by choice. We had a closet designed at the container store. When we got home and installed it- the doors wouldn't work. (drawers were blocking it)
So we took off the doors and added curtains. Plain Khaki ones to kind of blend.
If I had a girl I would do it up with the curtains- like add bows.

I would take a picture but it is a mess in there (he's a teenager) The closet is neat though.
We felt if we hated it we could just take down the rod(which you don't see at all since I mounted it inside the frame) and put the doors back on.

 

[momof2blondes]

I did this with my sons room. He has the smallest room in the house and it allowed me to put some wire basket type drawers in the bottom of his closet. I like it fine and he finds it easy. I just bought a nice metal rod and some nice blue finials (sp) to go with his room. Most of the time he ties it back so that it is easier, then I go in and close it to hide the mess of all the junk he stashes in there.
Sorry I don't have a picture.

BTW your daughters room sounds very pretty. Good luck with your decorating.

 

[DrRae2B]

Yup. I did that with my daughter's room.... I made her a little alcove there... sooo cute. I have no idea how to post pics on here, but if you PM me, I can direct you over to my FB page and you can see them (I posted LOADS of pics when I redid her room).

 

[Ericandjenng]

I don't have pics but when we bought our current house, the closet doors in my son's room didn't sit exactly right. We took them down and just took the paint and border into the closet and made it an extension of his room. We were able to fit one chest inside it with additional wire shelving to give him lots of storage for his toys.

 

[cassiez76]

i'm actually in the process of doing that for my linen closet and our guest bedroom. only 1 door works of the bifolds and i hate it!

if necessary, i used a copper pipe (thin) to use as a curtain rod since our windows are so long and it was hard finding a 4ft normal rod. just used regular curtain rod mounts, that i'll do it again.

 

[vettechick99]

I did!

 

[msmama]

We did it in our old house. But with a REALLLY long closet so I couldn't use a rod.

I made several panels (so we had access to each part of the closet without having to pull anything back to far) and then I actually taped it up with super sticky double sided tape (it was a rental).

No pics though.

 

[monkey30]

This is a great idea I have no idea why we have not done this before!!

Our closet doors int he boys room are forever coming off the tracks. Not to mention they are just dated!

 

[rootbeer momma]

I never thought to do that. My youngest dd has bifold doors on one closet and a regular door on the other closet. Those stupid bifold doors are always coming off the track and right now they are actually broken and are ruining the wood frame. I may have to hang a curtain instead. Thanks for the idea!

 

[Leader of the Club]

We took the doors off and just left an open closet. They were able to put a chest in their closet and it did tend to stay much neater! No hiding anything! We painted the inside of the closet a slightly different color and put some cool lighting effects in their. It was very cool!

 

[mykidslovesdisney]

I did a princess room for DD6 last yr. She had a built in dresser/shelfs and a useless closet-- depth of only 18 ". The dresser was useless too bc the drawers were really shallow. Good for baby clothes but not as she was growing. Her room is the smallest of the 3. The way her room was set up the bed took up most of the room - she only had a narrow walkway along the bed and at the foot of the bed btwn the dresser. I decided to tear out the built in dresser and make that her closet. And swing her bed along the back all with the foot of the bed in the org. closet. The day I went up to demo the dresser - DH looks at me with really big eyes- asking me what I was doing w/ a sledge hammer Ah duh if u listened to anything I said the last month about DD room, you'd know!

anyways he helped me rip out the dresser== nearly hit me in the face w/ the hammer! We also tore out the carpeting = there was old school tiles on the floor that had to go! -DH was like -- they look good--- aah - no = I did wood floor that was peel and stick strips.

OMG --Her rm has soo much more space by turning the bed. I was able to put a 3x5 rung btwn the bed and dresser. For her new closet, I used tension shower curtain rods as the bars since it was smaller than the rods sold in the hardware stores. I then got a 84" drape from Kmart that had Cinderella's coach and slippers on it- silky type fabric and hung that on a tension cafe rod. The drape does sit a bit on the floor but it looks really cute. I just added a Tie back hook to the side of the closet to swing the curtain back when she is gettting her clothes out.

It came out soo nice. I painted the walls pink and she has a princess border on the top of the room. I got valances from Kmart- princesses to match the closet curtain. It was hard work for almost a wk-- I had a shoulder injury that I worked thru to get the room done. It is amazing when u think outside the box on how to arrange a room.

good luck with ur decision.

 

[livie1205]

Thanks everyone.....you gave me some great ideas!

 

[CastleCreations]

I have a regular sized closet that had the two folding doors on it in the girls room. I took the doors off and made a cornice box and hung the curtains from behind the cornice box. Their room is a warm pink and all of their bedding and curtains are black and white. The cornice box is a black and white toile. It came out really cute.

 

[puffkin]

If you have molding around the closet door, I would mount the curtain on the inside of the closet to give it a more polished look.

 

[DrummerBoy523]

This is what we did for our guest room in our last house

This was our master closet:

 

[JohnsonsRUs]

We did this in both of the rooms DD has been in (baby room and bigger room). In the room she is currently in, we put a closet organizer system in the closet with a space for a small TV and DVD player. There are shelves galore for books, DVDs, general stuff and drawers for clothes as well as 2 rods for hanging clothes.

When she first moved in there we had fabric curtains on a rod, but as she got older and her room morphed, we changed them to the bead curtains you can find at various stores. We also had originally painted the room pink (think pepto), then taped off large vertical stripes (about a yard wide) and put a high gloss on those portions so that the room was shiny-dull-shiny, striped. I also stenciled above the closet "Once upon a time..." A few years ago she moved from princess to pirate motif and we had a friend come over and paint a Jack Sparrow themed mural on her walls right on top of the pink, so it is still a pink background with pirate stuff all over it, including a huge ships wheel and a large Jack watching over her ;0)

 

[livie1205]

wow these are great! Thanks everyone..it put my fears at rest.My dh gave me the stinkeye when I told him what I wanted to do....lol but then again he dont have much style! haha (jk honey)

 

[livie1205]

If you have molding around the closet door, I would mount the curtain on the inside of the closet to give it a more polished look.

yeh there is nice molding around the closet that I would hate to cover.I may put it on the inside and put a nice curtain with tie backs...We finished the rest of the room last night...pretty good time (under 3 days) so this weekend I will work on the closet.I just love the way the room came out...just like I had in my head, looks very classy for a 4 yr old lol the pink on the bottom half is so soft and light that it looks great with the color of the wood floors(red oak) .I wish I knew how to post pics on here lol everytime I have tried I can never do it.

 

[Disney_Princess_Fan]

I have a regular sized closet that had the two folding doors on it in the girls room. I took the doors off and made a cornice box and hung the curtains from behind the cornice box. Their room is a warm pink and all of their bedding and curtains are black and white. The cornice box is a black and white toile. It came out really cute.

Wow Lis that sounds nice! You are so creative!