Closets

With the non-stop rain, indoor projects have been the focus lately. Of those projects, storage has been an ongoing one, from shelving in unfinished parts of the basement to now trying to squirrel away Kate's endless wardrobe. The heaps and piles of clothes in each room - hoarderesque - must go. A 20% off coupon to The Container Store and I now have a good stack of Elfa shelving to install. Not really wanting to tackling the project until the weekend, I took a minute last night to see fun might be ahead. Looks like a good bit.
The first wall I started to poke at, trying to find a stud, had a surprise of its own. At some point a previous owner put a piece of plasterboard over the plaster lath along this short wall at the back of the closet. Weird. Until I removed the plasterboard, and found that the plaster lath was all (historically) water damaged, with big chunks of plaster missing.



A right way to fix that would've been to remove the plaster lath and then put the plasterboard up. Not just cover the "bad". Sigh. Morons. In fixing this the right way I will have the opportunity to add a little insulation when I've got the wall opened, but I'm hoping I don't find other "bad".

Plaster now gone. Will tackle the lath tomorrow.


And then at some point I can get the closet going.