I'm finally coming out of the closet

I've been holding out on you guys. There's been an ongoing project that I haven't posted about mostly because I'm slightly embarrassed by it. In hindsight, what was there was fine. But my OCD got the best of me. 

I moved the door to our closet exactly 3" to the right.  That's right.  Three Inches

Best pic i have of closet door
 before on the right.
The trim goes right into the corner.   

Closet door after it's been
moved 3 inches to the right. 

I knew I wanted to replace the trim on the interior of the closet. It was trimmed in simple 1x2 pieces of wood and since doing the window in there, I wanted the door to match. But the wall the door is in has been covered in drywall on top of the plaster. And when they added the drywall, they just cut around the trim which meant the trim was actually flush with the wall.

So to install new trim, I'd have to take out the door, build a jamb extension to make it fit the actual wall depth (it's about 1.5" thicker than it was when the door was installed) and then reinstall the whole thing. So I took the 1x3 plain casing that was inside the closet, trimmed it down, added it to the jamb and, voila, jamb extension.

 

 Since I didn't want to mess with saving old plaster like I did last time, I went ahead and ripped out every bit of plaster that wasn't covered in drywall and then some. Then I thought, "hey, it's always bugged me that the door is right in the corner so why not move it over a little." So I did. Then reinstall jamb, add new lathe and wire mesh, plaster, install new casing, wood putty, caulk and paint. 

 

 The surprising thing about this project is that there were no surprises. At least none that added work to the project. The only real surprise was figuring out that this door had always been there and always been a closet door. When I took off the plaster inside the closet you could tell there was a small closet there. Except if you would have opened the door in 1899, you would have been greeted with a closet that was the exact width of the door and maybe 20" deep. That's why the trim on the closet side of the door was so plain: no one would ever see it. And at some point, someone felt the need to make it feel even smaller and painted that little closet a very dark forest green.

Oh, and the closet, that I started on in November, is finally done. Well, the baseboards need replaced, but I'm at the screw-it stage.