I've always wanted to paint the insides of my closets
robin's egg blue. I don't know why. Being military, we move around a lot and getting into a house and getting settled right away is usually a priority. Once those closets are filled with items it has always seemed like too much of a project to empty them and paint them--who is going to notice after all? This time, I had a long weekend between getting into the house and having our household goods arrive. I put it to good use.
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| Coat closet before |
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| Coat closet before |
The closets in our new house had only had builder's primer on them for the last 17 years. I think the builder used up various shades of paint or primer to get the job done. I found beige, white, grey and a pinkish beige color. One closet had three different colors. The original owners put in a lot of wood shelves, but not all of them got painted so I had bare wood too. I also had builder's notes in pen and childrens' scribbles as well as the typical shoe marks, nail holes and it seems about 50 foam adhesive pads to remove. A previous owner of the home apparently had some sort of addiction to adhesive backed plastic cup hooks.
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| Pantry After |
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| Pantry After |
Above is the soft shade of robin's egg blue in the pantry closet. Afterward I put down thick clear ribbed shelf liner to protect the surface and it looks clean and nice.
A few of the closets got a french vanilla custard type of color instead of the blue and I still have one closet to go, but they do look so much better!
Stay tuned for more house and yard photos of our new place. There's lots still to do.
Sue
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