Before & After: Upstairs Hall Closet

I have been home sick the last two days but have been incredibly bored leading to some projects around the house. Essentially, my routine has been Eat, Sleep, Project, Sleep a lot, Eat, Sleep. All that rest seems to be helping because I am indeed feeling better and will be back at work with the children tomorrow. Anyway, my project today was the upstairs hall closet, which has been something of a black hole:

(Please excuse the wonky angle but it is, after all, in the hallway, and thus hard to photograph nicely.)
As you can kind of see, I had tried to use those hanging shelf things to organize it, but they were just not cutting it. Additionally, random crap had piled up everywhere, including garbage bags of stuff that were thrown in the bottom.

After a quick trip in my newly inspected and emission-tested car to the nearby Linens-n-Things and a lot less work than I was anticipating, it now looks like this:

A marked improvement, if I do say so myself. Next up, the back patio.