I keep looking for projects and keep finding them! This was from a couple weekends ago. The first picture on the right shows an odd, less than functional kitchen closet. Apparently many years ago, my grandfather built this closet, sealing off the interior access to our cellar in the process. My grandmother needed a place to store her Christmas decorations and that literally was the sole purpose of this closet for my whole childhood. Now in full disclaimer, it did not look as ugly as it does in the first photo on the left. My grandfather had put up a wall paper that was supposed to look like knotty pine and had a dark brown lino on the floor. Did that make it better than the picture on the left? Only marginally. The closet just did not work for us. It was where we wanted to keep cleaning things. Brooms, cleaning cloths and vacuums, our rug cleaning machine etc. But it was so dark and hard to see in there.
So we ripped off the wallpaper, pulled up the lino, admired the newspapers from 1957 that he lined the floor with before putting down the linoleum. and made a plan. We repaired the sheetrock where needed and put up a faux beadboard. It is white and truly made such a difference. We put a quick self stick tile floor in and hung new shelves (which you can't see from this picture) up high for odd things that typically live in this closet. (it is the place where all our odd vases usually are stored but they were higgly piggly all over the place before.
I put up peg board squares so we could hang our cleaning tools and not have them falling all over the place. I put in a new threshold and then we caulked and trimmed it all out. It was a tedious job but not really super hard. And the end result has been a huge improvement in the functionality of the space.
From there we moved on to stripping and sanding our front door but that is a story for another post!
