Someone call the show for me Pleassssseeee!!

 When we moved into our new (old) house

at the end of May, I was lucky enough

to have this closet

in the dining room.

I know, I know.

You're probably saying to yourself,

"She's calling that lucky????"

Well it is.

For a (dish) hoarder like me.

 It was probably meant as a coat closet,

but since it was in the dining room,

I claimed it as

The Dish Closet.

And so it beame that.

Now obviously, I could also see that the closet

needed a major overhaul.

But for those of you that have moved...

and had load after load after load after load

(you get the idea)

to unload,

then some of the things you thought were pressing

at one time

become not so much

pretty quickly.

 So it was with

The Dish Closet.

My intention was to

immediately get the

ugly closet

looking all cutesy.

But then I got tired of

tripping over all the boxes

of dishes....

that were everywhere!

So I just put the dishes in the closet and decided

I'd "get to it" during the summer.

Then the summer of heat hit.

I was not about to spend hours

trapped in a closet

scraping and scraping and painting and repairing.

So I shut the door to

The Dish Closet

and fogotaboutit.

Kind of.

 It was always there

in the back of my head

just nagging away.

Then last week I decided I wanted to do a

Fall Tablescape.

The trouble was that all my fall dishes were

in the very back

of

The Dish Closet.

(They were so buried you cannot even see them in the pictures!)

So on a Sunday afternoon about a week ago,

I unloaded

The Dish Closet.

Every last dish. And candle.

And bowl.

And cup.

And plate.

And....well you get the picture. Again.

 I decided to begin

The Big Makeover.

So I began scraping all that

gross wallpaper off.

And painting the woodwork.

(The closet even has a cute little window!)

 Then I put beadboard wallpaper up

on the bottom half of the closet.

It is looking SO much better.

Next up are some shelves.

Built in.

Painted crisp white.

Ready to hold dishes.

And candles.

And cups.

And plates.

And...well you get the picture. Again.

 And just in case you did NOT get the picture,

here is what my dining room has looked like for the

past week.

And I am not even showing the worst of it.

Yes, somewhere in that mess

is the set of

Fall dishes

I set out to get in the first place.

Now I just need to find the table!

Someone call the hoarders TV show.

Tell them you found a candidate for the show!

In the meantime....while I am waiting to get the call...

I'll try to finish up my Dish Closet!

I'll be sure to let you see the finished deal.

Mandy..I responded to you on the last message you left me.

Laurie--I wrote you a LONG email and it will not go through. I have tried TEN times and it keeps

coming back to me. Email me and let me know what I am doing wrong!!!!

I have linked this with Between Naps On The Porch with Susan. 
And with Wow Us Wednesday with Kim.

Also check out the Open House Party at No Minimalist Here!