Scary, Scary Closets

Before Dan and I can start thinking about nursery paint colors, or furniture, or curtains, or any of the like, we've got to tackle one big problem: the closets.  As of yet, I don't think we've posted any pictures of the closets in our guest room (which will be the nursery) or our office, so I'm happy we have the chance to share!  Who wouldn't want to put their baby's clothes in a closet like this?

To add to the fun, there are not only one of these closets, but two in the nursery, plus one in the office (which isn't quite as bad but still rough) and another downstairs off the living room.  I will leave you all to ponder why someone would want to wallpaper the interior of a closet.  In the meantime, we've got to get the icky old wallpaper off, repair the plaster underneath, and give them all a good fresh coat of paint!

To start, Dan's going to take care of the closets in the nursery and the office.  We want to do the one in the living room, too, but it's at least useable for now.  This is definitely a multi-step project, and step one has been removing the wallpaper.  Here's Dan getting started with that!

The fact that the wallpaper is already falling off the walls certainly helped move the project along.  Here are both the nursery closets and the office closet about mid-way through the wallpaper removal project (with scraps of wallpaper on the floor).

And here the nursery closets with the wallpaper removed.  Still not exactly pretty, but it's good progress!

This is definitely a project that is happening in several installments.  Dan's been hard at work, so we should have more pictures soon of the next phases--sanding, spackling, and patching!