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The bookshelf ceiling supports look like threaded rod. A toggle bolt would support the weight in the ceiling, and a nice flange with a washer and nut would complete that neat little system.

I'm absolutely using that in my future house.

Ah, that didn't clarify anything at all. We just swapped one long rod for two short ones way in the back of the closet. Plus some high shelves.
Sorry for the tl;dr and confusion.

We have a long, narrow closet with a weird layout. It's two feet deep by five or six feet wide, and the door is way on one end of the long side. Let's see if I can ASCII this...
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The commas represent the door.

Two feet deep is about wide enough for a standard hanger plus an inch or a few. When we arrived, this was the setup:
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...One bar all the way down, leaving half the clothes hidden away and inaccessible. Plus, there was a bar 1.5 feet above the first bar. For hanging what, bikinis?

I changed the layout to this:
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Two closet rods with shelves on top, one at five feet off the ground, and one four feet above it. We lined the walls of the closet with hanging shoe organizers for socks, undies etc, and I wired up a lamp using an extension cord, a fixture, and a lightbulb. We had battery-powered lights but they were weak and annoying. I just got an extension cord the same color as our trim (brown) and ran it along the floor behind the bed to an outlet nearby.

PROBLEMS SOLVED

Haha, I love all the comments. None are mean-spirited, except the people who are cranky about us poking fun at design memes that are fast becoming cliche.

Houses are lovely to arrange, paint, decorate, stage, and photograph, but everyone knows that a house is for living, and with living comes laughing!

If this blog, or its commenters, took the "DESIGN IS SERIOUS BUSINESS GUYS" tack all the time, I wouldn't want to spend my time here anymore. :(

That said, these are good tips. It's always good to know how to do a quick freshen-up on the pad before a VIP guest stops by. (Mother-in-law?!)

My boyfriend gripes a lot (well, a little) because my "projects" often take over the house. I need a berkwench.

I'm definitely the handy one in the relationship, which is nice (I don't have to wait for something to get fixed) and annoying (I always have to fix everything).

Laura, another tall Laura here with a tall BF (I'm 6', he's 6'4"). A Cali king is the way to go. It eats up almost the entire bedroom, but is sooo worth it. We can sleep lengthwise and width-wise, and be totally comfortable either way.

We also put the mattress on the floor, so that it doesn't seem totally overwhelming in the room.

I second (third?) the separate coverings. SO IMPORTANT.

Stools say now, but the green says 70s. A very tasteful 70s? That's what I'll go with.

I've been hanging indoors since I was a wee hygebeorht. It helps to live in dry Colorado, but in the summer, those with AC tend to have drier indoor environments anyway.

I just hang clothing on hangers, and hang the hangers either on a screwed-in shower rod, on the lip of molding over a large doorway, or on a rolling clothes rack. I once had a large closet that I'd hang everything in, well-spaced of course.

Drying on hangers really streamlines laundry, because all I have to do to put it away is collect the hung clothes and transfer them to the closet. Plus, no bird poop!

$925 for a one-bedroom with balcony on the top floor of a historic landmark in Denver. All included except electric. It's pretty typical for the neighborhood.

Err...no offense to Kristen meant at all! But when you're writing professionally and putting out multiple pieces a day, it's easy to get proofing fatigue. I could have your back on this one, AT, and comments would be freed up for design discussion, not ad hoc editing sessions.