Renovated Laundry Room: New Flooring and Paint Job
Ok, you caught me. The laundry room still is not 100% complete. There’s still some minor things we need to do and a few things we need to get. Nonetheless, I’m ready for a reveal. Just as a reminder, at some point, previous owners had used these two rooms for their dog breeding stuff. (Check out this previous post for a few “before” pictures). Obviously not something we were thrilled with, but when we bought the house, we knew someday we could turn it into something useful. Fast forward 3 1/2 years and we are so pleased with how it turned out! I just wish I had more “before” pictures for some better comparisons!
Here’s the still-to-do/get list (doesn’t include things like fill up the walls with artwork that are more long-term things):
*Putty holes & paint trim!
*Paint doors
*Baskets for shelves
*Shelves for above washer & dryer (done! see it here!)
*Doormats!
*Curtains
Now, be prepared for a lot of pictures….sorry for the poor picture quality for some of them….
First, another “before” picture (yes, I was too lazy to scan this so I took a picture of the picture)…it’s the view standing in our kitchen looking out to the hallway – the door straight ahead leads to the garage. Lots of wallpaper. Lots of blue. Wallpaper and blue seemed to be the main themes of the house. And yep, those are ducks on the border. Or possibly geese.
Continuing forward:
Straight ahead:
Now looking to the right – I want to put baskets on the shelves to hold hats, mittens, etc. The sliding door on the left leads to a little porch area:
Just on the other side of the door is the utility sink:
And on top of the pantry shelves, is this collection of stuff I don’t know what else to do with – the Hops bottle is from the (now out of business) restaurant that Jon & I went to on our first date (awww!), the crock and some of the blue mason jars (I loooove blue mason jars) are from my Grandma’s house:
I first posted about these letters back here – we found them at an antique/flea market place – they are letters from an out of business movie theater. At first I was going to spell out “LAUNDRY” but Jon thought that was too typical. He was right. When I saw the “&” it all fell into place. The only problems were that some of the letters were red and some were black – we solved this with a little spraypaint – also, there were no “A’s” – we solved this by turning a “V” upside down and adding a little piece of Armaflex (with an insulator for a husband, many household things are fixed with Armaflex).
Cassity Kmetzsch started Remodelaholic after graduating from Utah State University with a degree in Interior Design. Remodelaholic is the place to share her love for knocking out walls, and building everything back up again to not only add function but beauty to her home. Together with her husband Justin, they have remodeled 6 homes and are working on a seventh. She is a mother of four amazing girls. Making a house a home is her favorite hobby.
>love the drying rack! =)
>I would give anything to have a laundry room with all of that space but what I am most impressed with it that drying rack, it's adorable and the fact that your husband actually thought of something you would want, remember it and tell his mom, shock! Great space. How about hanging those crates on the wall?
>Wow now that is a laundry room and I love the drying rack
>The whole area is spectacular even before being completely finished. How great is that!
I have to say, though, the drying rack is my favorite. I wish I had one of those.
>Now that is a laundry room. You have so much room I wouldn't mind doing laundry in there.
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>This space is huge! I wish I had that much room for my mudroom/laundry! Everything looks so clean and bright and I love the pain color you chose.