Gag me with a spoon

I would like to thank the previous owner for leaving a closet full of dusty, cob-webbed, junk for us to clean out in the bathroom.  Something you may not know about me is that I take my bathroom accoutrements very seriously.  Between this and my love of doing laundry (I know, I'm a weirdo), it's about as domestic as I get.  Either way, once I saw the closet during the inspection, I knew that was going to be my first project.  Gross.

Before

After

I just could not put all my clean towels, sheets, cosmetics, etc in this dirty, stained closet so we pulled out all the existing shelving and wiped down the interior.  Since the shelves were solid wood, we'll be able to use them on another project too which is good.  Reduce, reuse, recycle, right?  A few coats of paint, some Closetmaid shelving from Home Depot and a Sterilite container we already had and we have a completely refreshed linen closet.  We also have some lovely bronze doorknobs but are contemplating replacing the closet door since it seems to have some sort of oil-based, dingy yellow paint on it that isn't taking the new paint very well.  So we'll see how that second coat sticks when we do the hallway.