{"id":3387,"date":"2021-11-13T18:32:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2021-11-25T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T21:00:04","slug":"modifying-a-wardrobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/modifying-a-wardrobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Modifying a wardrobe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I bought a new wardrobe to stand on the wall adjacent to the existing wardrobe but that left a dead space in the corner behind and I don&#8217;t like dead spaces that will gather dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hit upon the idea of buying a further single wardrobe and grafting it onto the end of one of the wardrobes to make the space more useable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flat-pack.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3388\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flat-pack.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flat-pack-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flat-pack-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flat-pack-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The single wardrobe is from the same range as the others but wasn&#8217;t quite the same size.  It was too wide and too short.   This is my first woodworking project this year.  I&#8217;m out of practice and made a lot of mistakes.   The fun with mistakes is figuring how to work around them so they don&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did a few things I&#8217;ve not done before.  The dowel holes turned out accurate enough but I didn&#8217;t get the cam lock fixing holes quite right so used angle brackets instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/table-saw.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/table-saw.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/table-saw-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/table-saw-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/table-saw-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course it took longer than planned and it was getting late by the time I finally got everything sound enough structurally to stand it up so I could access the bedroom again for the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/standing-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/standing-up.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/standing-up-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/standing-up-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/standing-up-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The new inaccessible extension to the wardrobe turned out handy for a couple of formal outfits that I don&#8217;t wear very often.  I can slide the every day stuff to one side to access them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little bit of me regrets not just buying the larger wardrobe and doing an overlap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/finished-wardrobes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/finished-wardrobes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/finished-wardrobes-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/finished-wardrobes-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/finished-wardrobes-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a new wardrobe to stand on the wall adjacent to the existing wardrobe but that left a dead space in the corner behind and I don&#8217;t like dead spaces that will gather dust. 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