Before and after of the mud room.........

You can see some before photos here and here

Here are a couple of before photos:

Well as you can see the major change is there are now closet doors on the closet and no holes in the drywall above the closet.  

 I had painted the door to "nowhere" last Fall but dh put a frame around it to finish it off.  The door still does not open but does look more finished now.

 I bought a couple of cushions for the bench; dh curses them up and down everytime he sits on the bench!!

 We finished off and painted the frame to the door leading into the kitchen.  That was the original back door to the house, so we have exposed wall there.

Another view of the exposed wall.

 This is inside of the closet.  We reused what was already there.

The door to the outside and the window. 

Total for this project, probably in the range of $250 to $300.  The closet doors were around $120 and we needed a lot of trim and we had to buy drywall and plaster.  I did just use what paint I had on hand and we did use whatever wood we could, but there was barely any trim work in this room.