By Laura Diaz
Jul 1, 2021
California Closets in Tampa has to be the most generous client I ve ever worked with. They give away free pantries every year at Thanksgiving time to our listeners, free closets to single Moms and now they just awarded an employee in our sales department with a free Master Closet Transformation!
They ve transformed my garage and completely turned an empty formal living room in my house into a home office and now after seeing my colleague s closet, I m thinking my closet needs to be next!
Here s the before.take a good look because you won t recognize it in the after photos:
that. do you think the structure will hold? i do. we have hurricane shutters on. we have a three inch gap. where in the house are you? i believe you re there with your husband, your daughter. have you covered the window in mattresses? are there closets or bathtub for you to get? bathtub. our master closet has been filled out. we have a mattress up against our front door because it s half glass. the rest of the windows are covered by hurricane shutters. in the event we haven t been discuss as much baskecause you re in the middle of a wind event. you re about to get your storm surge, what s your plan for that? we do have an attic, access through our garage. that will be our flood plan.
you can see them coming apart. we have a safe room that is integrated into the master closet, and it s accessible from the master bath. we ve got poured cells that are reinforced with steel running in every cell all the way around the room. it can withstand a lot higher wind load than, let s say, the rest of the house. those plans are for a home with a safe room that they are currently building with cynthia and her family. a safe room would be like a safe haven for us, you know. just in case we have to evacuate, i won t have to go out. the safe room has just been poured. none of the interior walls are in yet, but it gives you a good idea of how it s structured and where it s placed inside the home. let s go take a look. the safe room has got a 12x12 opening in the ceiling there. you also notice all these downpours. each one of these cells has been filled with concrete. so that concrete runs all the way up, along with the steel all the way up and all the way over the top of the
you can see them coming apart. we have a safe room that is integrated into the master closet, and it s accessible from the master bath. we ve got poured cells that are reinforced with steel running in every cell all the way around the room. it can withstand a lot higher wind load than, let s say, the rest of the house. those plans are for a home with a safe room that they are currently building with cynthia and her family. a safe room would be like a safe haven for us, you know. just in case we have to evacuate, i won t have to go out. the safe room has just been poured. none of the interior walls are in yet, but it gives you a good idea of how it s structured and where it s placed inside the home. let s go take a look. the safe room has got a 12x12 opening in the ceiling there. you also notice all these downpours. each one of these cells has been filled with concrete. so that concrete runs all the way up, along with the steel all the way up and all the way over the top of the