Closet In Progress

We are still working on the office and guest room closets.  Mike has been diligently working on the electrical to add lights inside and switches next to the doors.  He's doing both closets at once while the weather is warm enough to for him to be in the attic without turning into a icicle.  The work is slow and complicated with little to show for it - it's probably why electricians charge so much.  Right now the closets are a disaster - chunks of plaster everywhere from the holes cut into the ceiling, lots of dust and mess.  The plaster is so old that when Mike cuts into it, big chunks break off.  The hole in the office closet is pretty substantial.  Time to break out a drywall patch.

The office closet ceiling and the big hole left behind

The guest room closet ceiling hole and electrical box in place

In the meantime I sanded the shelves for both closets outside. There are eight shelves for two closets and I'm not sure how they all fit back together anymore (I took them out back in June), but we'll figure it out when we put it all back.  Sanding was messy but necessary, the shelves were in really bad shape.  I'm now in the process of painting them - two coats on the top, bottom and sides in the bone white paint.  I'm currently debating whether I should paint the rods to match (which will chip pretty quickly) or spray paint them (which won't match but the paint will stick longer).

The shelves and rods out on the deck, about to be sanded

There's still a lot of electrical wiring to do, then a lot of patching around all the holes.  And lots of cracks in the guest room closet that need some serious spackling.  We definitely have our work cut out for us! 

An up-close example of how bad the guest room closet is - the whole closet looks like this.

What the closet floors look like.  Where's the shop vac?!