Doors on? Doors off?
 

We just bought a house up in the mountains. The whole place was a nicotine yellow off white. After a coat of Killz and 2 coats of semi gloss, we can breathe in the house! Here's the closet wall in the sewing room/office. I took the big sliding doors off the closet. I guess I'll have to live with it a while before I decide if this looks too messy and needs to be hidden behind bifold doors. What do you think?

I'd probably opt for the doors.

You could get a pretty sheet and make a casing and hang it from a tension rod.

I would go with doors as well. Just (to me) makes for a tidier space when you want to do a clean up.

i would go with doors that have the chicken wire type. and behind the chicken wire have a sheer fabric of some type. have pretty rustic knobs.. keep the doors a dark wood like the trim..

I don't know your decorating style, I would like a rustic look. And have it slide sideways like on a barn. The hardware is mounted at the top....just me. But bottom line, doors............don't want HD to see the inventory...hee hee....calla
I meant DH...not HD. Well sometimes he is

I kept the doors on my sewing room closet and turned them into my design wall. It is put up with Velcro so I can remove it when I slide the doors.

Doors ON. You don't want any indirect sunlight to hit your fabric.

I would opt to have doors just to be able to "clean up" when needed.

Some kind of cover but bifold doors can be a pain. They never open as far as I want them to so that I can easopily reach the bottom right and left areas. You might consider a Roman shade style .

Doors no question.

I did the same as quiltingcandy. Thumbtacked my design wall to the outside door. It's small, but I never had one before, and it's good.

I would opt for doors of any kind. Of course, your house may not be in dusty country like ours!

Thanks ladies. I'd love to do a barn for, but I don't have the room on the wall for it. The sliders won't work, they're just too big. You'd only get to half the closet, and the middle would be hard to access. I like the chicken wire idea! I'll post again when it's all done!

definitely add doors for so many reasons and to hide any hint of disorganization that we quilters create when working on projects. create, clean up, create, clean up ...

A curtain might be an option...maybe one made from your stash?

Definitely put the doors back on. Why show off all your goodies?

I have bi-folds on my pantry. They're ok, but as Zozee said, they don't open completely and I can't hang anything on the back (like my apron). This aside, I'd need a door on my storage closet to make things more orderly.

I would need the doors, I'm a little OCD.

It seems you have lots of bulkier fabrics that are hard to neatly fold...I would opt for the doors. Maybe paint them same as the wall color. Also, instead of sliders, I would hinge the doors so they open out, and make each a half of a design wall...killing two birds with one stone (hide your stash, adding valuable design wall) can't wait to see your finished product!

I am not in favor of having open shelves, because of dust, random bugs if you open the window to the mountain air, that sort of thing. Love the shelves though - wow!

I would keep the doors.

Doors on definitely!

I would do doors to protect the stuff inside from dust and my cat hairs and any possible fading that might occur do to light from the windows. I had fabric stored on a book shelf and some fabric faded and the white ended up with yellowing on the areas where the fold was.

Oops to protect the fabric. Design the doors so they become storage or display areas.

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I'd have to have doors! Nice grid arrangement!

Hahahaha! Normally when you do a "survey" on here, the answers are 50-50 either way. It's sad, because I just love the color that I painted inside the closet. And the cubes looked so great stacked in there empty. But after I filled them, it just looks so messy!
I'm looking around. I think a French door style so I can hung stuff on the inside and make a design wall on the outside sounds great. Maybe with a barn door styling so it looks rustic when I take the flannel down.

No Doors
 

I would do no doors. Just refold your fabric sized to fit your cubes. My husband just did the same for me but he installed wire shelving floor to ceiling and I folded the fabric so I can see what is what. Before with the doors I really couldn't see everything in the closet and it was so easy to just stuff more in and shut the doors. Now not only can I see exactly what I am looking for but I tend to keep it neater and the array of color is inspiring.

I don't have the option of using a closet so have open shelving. I've folded all mine either using the comic book boards or when I ran out of them used the ruler folder methods so I keep it as neat as possible. All my fleece is folded and placed on top of all the bookcases/shelving so its a little messy but what the heck, I don't look up there too often and its right up against the rafters too. Trying to find projects to use up all that fleece to get it out of here.

Ooooooo! I just found a tutorial on how to make your own fabric covered boxes! I'm going to buy a bolt of muslin for the boxes and then use my stash for the cuffed liners! Now I can keep my pretty closet color visible, have my storage, protect my fabric, and hide the mess!
I'm thinking about using quilt leftovers to piece the basket liners. Then each box will be a memento of the quilts I've made.

Interesting idea.

I took the doors off some years ago, the only problem I have noticed is that dust does collect on the fabric folds if I don't use them up.

Definitely doors - I too am disorganized.

I did something like this but I bought beautiful lace shower curtains and hung them so I can slide them open or keep them shut. Works for me.

Curtains add color and are easy to manage.

I would want doors. I like things clean and tidy. Door will also keep the light and dust fron your material.

I would have to have doors to hide all my stuff.

doors especially for county living the dust is well dusty