Kathleen and Stan may have the smallest and worst wardrobe in the greater metropolitan area. No matter. Their closet is getting bigger.When they built the place eight years ago, something happened in the mad dash to button it up, and the closet space got short-changed in favor of a walk-in shower. At the time, a tiny closet was no problem for a couple of folks with tiny wardrobes.
Kathleen claims Stan won't throw out anything remotely sentimental. (He still has an Army shirt or two.) They built a big old walk-in closet in the basement last summer to store such memorabilia. That's where the Santa Suit, the wedding dress and the bicentennial get-up reside. But if this old townhouse is ever going to sell, the tiny master closet just won't do. So the dreary Minnesota spring hatched a short-term project: They pulled the door off the closet and moved it out four feet into the bedroom. Suddenly the closet is huge, and befitting the huge clothes collection of the next lucky owners.
Stan applied his homemade "dinosaur dentil" moulding to the top edge of the closet extension. He's too cheap to buy the real stuff. That same pattern will be picked up on the dustboard which is in the works for the bedroom sliding door. That glass has been covered by a "temporary" vertical shade purchased in a hurry at Menard's eight years ago for $20.It's time.
