that is sad what katrina did, wanda. some many lost so much. i hope you didnt lose any treasures.LOL, what your son said. omg! i forgot about the door, too susy. yes our attic had a door and it was always closed. that's why it was always so cold up there. at that time we didnt have oil heat or any modern heat pump. we heated our house with a big old coal stove in the cellar and there was one big grate where the heat came out in the middle of the dinning room , right near the stairway going to the second floor. you should have gone up there susy, who knows what treasure were up there from looong ago. i wonder why newer houses dont have two stairs too, dirtdiver. certainly is a good fire precaution. i remember when i was about 12 my best friends house had two stairs and the front stairs were in a hall way off the livingroom thinking back, that was such a neat house. you went in the front door to a foyer you could go left into the living room, then dining room then kitchen, or you could go straight , down a narrow hall which had the front stairs in it and a big understairs closet- which i was afraid of, haunted too!- and the hall led to the dining room. upstairs where what seemed like a bazzillion bedrooms. i think i ventured up to the 'attic' in that house one time but we were yelled at and i never got to see what was there. just remember it as sort of biiiig, open and scarey. that house had a porch off the second floor bedroom too. we used to sleep there in the summer. g

It's worn.....but don't mess with it! HOWEVER....it's yours......and while I bought the one I had for maybe $2.50....stripped all the paper off, stained and varnished and glued fabric on the inside....and filled with barbie clothes and gave it to my daughter.....who loved it and used it.....and stored her Barbies in it....and then gave it to her daughter who also stored her Barbies in it... Well where else could I have found something that would have served so well for so long for the $100 that a trunk like that may be worth? The brackets are for ( I think) little drawers that fit inside. It's a good thing....save a piece of the past...or convert it to something you will use....the choice is yours.

Those pulls look very nice, they will look good on a closet like the one you included in the link. At 160-mm drilling they probably will not match up with the existing holes. It used to be pretty easy, most cabinet hardware in the US was measured in inches and most pulls were drilled 3" center to center. Now days it is just as likely to be metric (especially for a closet system) and the spacing is all over the place. From what you said in your post it sounds like your closet system is painted. If that is the case, fill the existing holes with epoxy putty, sand them smooth, mark and drill the new holes where ever they need to be and repaint. The old holes should be invisible. If the closet system is melamine or laminate then you will probably not be able to hide the filled holes. If the new pulls are wider than the old ones the existing holes will be behind the pull and sort of out of sight, that might be hidden enough for you or you may want to rethink the whole project and live with the existing pulls.

We have one at the foot of DS2's room. It holds extra blankets. I have NO IDEA what happened to the color in this photo--- the real color is a medium grayish gold, and the Ikat fabric is cream and olive green. (It is the same fabric, just reverse sides.) For context, here is the other side of the room: There is an English dresser made of dark scrubbed pine, and a desk we had made for the room with a leather Parson's chair and a club chair by the window with a small leather ottoman. This is the desk: It's an eclectic mix of new and old, and the trunk fits in pretty well.