the closet: part one

i feel like i should show people that we actually are doing things to our new house. so let me start with the entry-way closet. it looked like this when we first moved in:

well, after we took off the door and did some mudding and sanding and such. my dream was for it to look like this:

(source here). found on pinterest... most of the projects in my house will come from my pinterest boards, i'm quite certain :)


so first we needed to take out the shelf. eventually we'll put in another one, but i wanted it higher so that coats don't hit people in the head when they sit down. and we wanted to paint. here we are (nick, erin and myself) ripping out the shelf. i was less successful than my husband.. go figure! excuse the quality of the photos, it was late at night and pretty dark.

i guess that was after the shelf was out... we were pulling out nails. i just loosened them for everyone, that's why they made it look so much easier... yeah. that's it.

then i painted. here's the result (i took it far away so you can't see how messed up one of the lines is :)). we still want to add a bench w/ baskets underneath and a few other cute embellishments! so there will be a part two.

it's the same kind of grey we're going to do in the baby's room. it's much lighter than it looks in the photograph, but i'm pretty pleased with it :) we still have lots of other projects, but now at least you can see one of them. ta da!