Out with the old...

The packages from Easy Closets arrived today.  And to give you a sample of what to expect if you were to place an order, see our foyer below:

Easy Closets does a wonderful job marking the contents of each box and dedicating one of the boxes to the instructions and hardware. 

It's now time to remove the existing shelving.  It took a screwdriver and the claw-end of a hammer to extract those nails from the wall.

The next task is to patch the holes, do some touch-up painting and mark where the studs are located.

In addition to using a stud finder, I intend to mark stud locations based on where screws held the previous shelf.

You can see where there is a nail-pop just below the holes....another strong piece of evidence where a stud is located.  Where there is a nail-pop (in most cases), there is a stud.

So before I patch these holes, I will make a pencil mark here to indicate the location of a stud.

Tomorrow I will finish the walls and begin all the necessary steps to hang the closet organizer. 

If I work real hard and break into a sweat, perhaps I'll burn a few calories too. 

And if everything goes according to plan, this post will be continued tomorrow evening.