This was also posted on Hackaday, but that ended up being bitter-sweet due to the raging emo-attention of herds of trolls. (*sheds a lone tear*).
To actually explore the process, check out each stage below..
I blogged about this on, you guessed it, my blog here. (Update Apr 26: Also was picked up by Hackaday, Howtogeek and geeknmod).
Project Reincarnation was to convert my fairly hacky closet in to an even more hacky closet of chaos and wonder....
The project took place over a few weekends (as that's when I had time for it). It involved a lot of sitting and pondering about what I wanted to do and how best to do it. A lot of time also went in to trips to the hardware store over not getting enough of something in a previous trip (like wood screws and support brackets).
To cut to the final results, a before and after is here. The main analysis for what to do happened during the second stage.