A Shocking Lesson..

for the record...the closet is not quite done...
& for the record, my mom said that as long as we work on the "weekend project" just on the weekends than it's still JUST a weekend project...

we ran into some..."issues"...
nothing not fixable...just issues that turned into good lessons...

lets just say when drawing up the plans for the closet I was VERY good about taking exact measurements...
I measured how tall it was going to be
....at the front of the closet
     ...and it's going on a wall with a vaulted ceiling
          ...so maybe I should have measured the height at the wall
...oops, lesson 1...measure all walls and heights of all walls when drawing up plans
&
I measured how wide it was going to be...along the wall...
    ...that just happened to have a small bookshelf on it at the time...
          ...a small bookshelf that was covering up an electrical outlet...
     .....an electrical outlet right...RIGHT...where the closet wall is going to be coming out of the wall...
...oops, lesson 2...look on ALL walls for electrical outlets when drawing up plans

WE...both of us...built the frame to the said closet before noticing either one of these issues...
we "fixed" lesson 1, and cut the wall frame down by 3 inches
(not so easy when the frame is already built...and upstairs...and the saw-cutting-thingy is downstairs on the front porch...but totally do-able!)

and we postponed the lesson 2 until this weekend...and are wondering how shocking our weekend project will turn out to be...yes, we (I'm using the royal we there) know we can do this...but he (the husband) thinks we shouldn't ...stay tuned...