New Closets!

We love our house and are planning on living here a good while, if not forever.  However, there have been a few major drawbacks to our house.  I guess every house has them, right?  Anyway, among other things, our house does not have a coat closet and does not have a pantry (but it does have a nice, large kitchen!)  Anyway, we used this little portable coat closet ever since we moved in (shown in the corner in the picture below):

Several months ago my sis-in-law Brooke had the idea to put closets on either side of the window in our "dining nook" and then put a window seat in between.  Alan and I hired our amazingly-talented family friend Brian to build these closets for us.  (See Brian's website here if you would like to hire him to do a project for you, too!)

Here is the "before" picture:

And here is the "after" picture:

The closet on the left is a coat closet, and the closet on the right is a pantry with shelves:

And there is the amazing storage bench in between the two closets!  

We couldn't be more thrilled with the result!  We still aren't quite finished yet.  The closets need to be painted, and we are going to paint our whole kitchen a new color while we are at it.  I'm excited for the new look of my kitchen!!