Update: Linen Closet

Day Two: Michael installs shelves, and hangs one door (built from scratch, of course). The wood is beautiful, old-style fir. HomoDomi has suggested leaving it as stained wood, but that would require stripping the other closet and the other four doors in the small hallway. Also, I think the white paint looks nice and is appropriate for an upstairs hallway of the time.

Mike said he hadn't built for exposed wood, and there were touches left in that were intended to be covered with paint. I think that convinced HomoDomi more than my opinions about required extra work and appropriateness.

So far as we know, the woodwork paint is original -- so in order to match, we will likely have to repaint all four doors and the other closet. I want to get a quart of pale blue-green paint and update the walls of the hallway, as well. The existing blue-green is a pretty color, but has faded and gotten dingy over the years.

Here, for fun, is the view from the bottom of the closet down through the kitchen (the light glowing in) to the basement. You can just make out, behind all the wires and white pipes, the blue line that is the curtain-wall of my room.