Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Save the Magazines!, Wallpaper and Closet Doors


I was so bummed out when I read last night that Mothering magazine is no longer in circulation. I've been reading it for years...at least 13. I have kept many of my old issues and love having them by my bed. I've written before of my addiction to magazines..and now so many of them are no longer. Do we really want to live in a world with no paper? Is it just a matter of time before we read everything on the computer/phone/ipad? Will our grandchildren look at newspapers and magazines and laugh..just like we do now when we think about having to actually get up out of our seat to change the television channel? I need my books and magazines! Anyway, I'll miss Mothering. 

(image from Anthropologie)

See that wallpaper? The GIANT flowers! I've been thinking about papering one wall in my family room in this...


I think it would be fun! Very soon the big honkin tv and all the video games that go with it will be heading south to the basement. Hallelujah! Eventually we'll get a smaller tv for the family room but I'd kinda like to see how long we can go with out it. 


So in every house we've lived in..and there's been many..we've ripped the doors off all the closets. I'm not sure when this obsession started but it's continued in this house. This is my laundry room/powder room.  The doors were those stupid accordian doors and I can't stand those. What were builders thinking in the 80's. 


Hannah's closet. I guess I should have propped Kit up to a little more lady like position. 

 And then of course there's my pantry. I think those were the first doors to come down. 


And here is our mudroom closet that needs to be painted. I also need more hooks and storage.  

I wonder if I'm the only weirdo that takes the doors off their closets?

24 comments:

  1. I yanked ours too! We have accordian closets in every room. I hung curtains in fabrics coordinating with bedding and draw back hooks on the sides. In my daughter's room, I'm thinking of recessing the head of the bed into the closet with some sort of curtain surrounding it and getting her an armoire for her clothes and things.

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  2. Who has room for closet doors? We take ours off too. We don't have room for dressers either, lol.

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  3. You make me feel better--we pulled the off-track sliding doors off our kids' closets...and never looked back. We replaced them in the living room coat closet and they work like a dream but I do like the rooms' look better without the doors! Sadly they'll be going back up fairly soon; the boys want more space for hanging posters, etc. but I'm enjoying it for now!

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  4. Interesting. I don't rip the doors off because I tend to throw stuff in the closets I that I don't have a home for. Sad, I know. But out closet doors are doors, not those accordian things. Of course, I'm the only one that closes them in the house... maybe I should rip them off.

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  5. I did this in our last house, thinking I would eventually make curtains to cover them--never did. But mine don't look as great as yours do.

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  6. I promise if I took a pic of the insides of my closets...you would say...keep them on!
    Love the lights and the pink in Hannah's.

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  7. I am all for the wallpaper on that wall in your living room. It's the perfect height for such a large scale print. I say go for it!

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  8. I have some with doors and some without. So much more room when the doors come off!

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  9. GO FOR THE WALLPAPER!!!!! I love cool pops of wallpaper. I wish our walls weren't that icky textured material.

    And, I am so inspired by your doorless closets. The only problem is I'm a major slob. I wonder if this would help or be the end of having guests over b/c of the embarrassment. hmmmm....

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  10. I love that wallpaper Pam...I know you have been wanting to do this...I say "go for it"

    I took the doors off Lucy's closet, and I love it, makes her room look like a little boutique...I might be doing it in the boy's rooms too!

    As much as I love looking at a paper magazine...I just cannot store all of those AND books, something has to give...so I am just starting to think on-line is not so bad.

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  11. Why do you remove the doors? I don't get it. We have paneled solid wood doors on all our rooms and closets and I would never take them off. The house looks so much neater with all the doors closed.
    As for the wallpaper...yes, do it! You have wanted to for a long time. Go ahead and enjoy it.
    I have started doing all my reading on line including the local newspaper. I say goodbye to paper...this is much cleaner. :)

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  12. OMG! I am sooo glad I am not alone.. I take my closet doors off too!!! It started when my then 4 year old sone closed his them 2 year old sister in her bedroom closet while i was taking a shower. Since she was only 2 she couldn't open the door, and he was mad at her, so he didnt' open the door. So she was in ther for like 5 minutes terrified, in the dark. As soon as i was dressed all bedroom closet doors came OFF! then slowly we liked the "openess" of it and more closets have lost their doors over the years.

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  13. Oh that's SO funny, I did the same thing in my last house and loved it! Don't think it would go over as well in this house.
    I say yes to the wallpaper!!

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  14. Oh and I would DIE without being able to turn the gorgeous, glossy pages in my magazines!! :D

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  15. Go for it with the wallpaper. You have dreamed of this for so long!

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  16. When we finished our basement, the kids moved in before closet doors were attached, and we found it was just so much easier without them. But that's about the extent that our doors will ever be absent. Nobody but me cares about what the closets look like inside, so rather than one more battle to fight, no other doors will be allowed to come off!!

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  17. Start putting up the paper! It's a GOOD thing!

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  18. I love the idea of wallpaper! It would look great in your family room! Do it! Love the doors off. I adore your pantry!

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  19. I love the wallpaper idea also Pam...and one wall is so do-able, vs. a whole room. There are no good magazines left are there? It's sad....I need paper too. Jeff wanted to buy me a kindle for Christmas and I said "don't you dare". I might be the only person reading books instead of a computer screen years from now, but I'm sticking to my guns.

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  20. In both of my children's rooms the closet doors are down and gone. I have Caroline's crib nestled in the "closet" with a set of three stacking wicker baskets (chunky and awesome)!

    In the boys' room I have their dresser, and little peg rack for their coats, and their super hero castles. :-) Having the doors off really helps to open up the room, and I love it!

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  21. It's been too long since I've been here! I love your style of decorating...
    And I am a big fan of Mothering magazine, too. It's quite sad that they are no longer publishing it!
    Love to you and yours, Pam~ XXXXOOOO
    Eileen

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  22. 1. Hannah's closet rocks
    2. HOWLING about what you said about Kit ... h.o.w.l.i.n.g!
    3. the magazine I almost cried over when it shut down? Domino ... RIP ... I feel your same pain ...

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  23. closet doors It very closed good to see all types of closet doors we watching .beautiful blog with good information of all kind of information providing .

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  24. Hey what color is the green on your walls in the laundry I love it

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