the dressing room "before"

this week i decided i'd like to finish the weird room off of our master bath and make it my dressing room. 

it's this little space that connects our bedroom, our bathroom, a closet, and the music room.  it's currently dark and creepy and purposeless, so i thought it would be great to freshen it up and put a vanity in it so i could have a little girly room to get ready in.

here it is in all of its "before" picture ickiness:

(this is the view from our bedroom.  the door on the back wall leads to the music room, and the door on the left is the closet.  the bathroom is on the right)

(this is the view from the back corner looking into the bathroom and bedroom.  

don't mind tuck.)

i haven't really done anything in this room since we moved in, except scrub the walls.  but when i was in here taking "before" pictures, i realized i missed a piece of wall.  missed walls are easy to spot around here, because of the 50 years of previous owner fingerprints:

gross.

when we first moved in, i set up billy's clothes in the closet off of this dressing room, and i put my things in a little closet that's in our bedroom.  the closet off of the dressing room has a lot more space, and i got to thinking, why didn't i take this closet in the first place?

so on saturday after work i took out all of billy's clothes from his closet, and the idea was to replace them with mine.

and then i remembered why i didn't take that closet in the first place.

it looks like this:

upon closer inspection, i also realized mice had been living in there, nice and cozy behind billy's clothes:

there was a lot of poop.

so of course, i did the super woman conqueror thing to do, and called billy.

(he's good at vacuuming icky stuff)

so last night we ended up getting the room and the closet all cleaned out and wiped up, and then today we put a layer of paint on everything.  this is a huge deal because 

1) it's the first time billy ever has let me paint any of the wooden walls in the house and 

2) i got billy to start a project on superbowl sunday.  

*curtsy* *curtsy*

this is just the first layer of paint in the creepiest closet of all time.  i'm going to paint the floor in there too.  it's already looking a little less scary now isn't it?  aww come on, just a little bit?

i decided to paint it antique white.  i didn't paint the trim yet because i ran out of time before the game, but i'm going to paint that too, don't worry.

i'm really excited about my theme for in here as well.  

but i'm not gonna tell ya what it is yet.  

you'll have to check back.  

i can't wait to get back to working on it tomorrow!  

i'll post lots of progress pictures as things move along. wish me luck!