Laundry Room

So we have started work on the laundry room. Actually we are halfway through with the laundry room project, but I'm just getting around to showing you the progress. I'm very excited to get it all finished so it can actually function as a laundry room and not as a dumping ground for all the tools & crap that seemed to collect in there.

This started because Bryan wanted to finish out the tile floor downstairs. It was a project we actually had everything we needed, so seemed simple enough. But as always happens, the project quickly spiraled into something more. Kind of like the "If you give a Mouse a Cookie" book.

It started with tiling the floor. But since you are going to be doing that might as well fix the holes in the wall. And while at that might as well scraped the popcorn off the ceiling. And while doing that you might as well fix the heat duct which is exposed and just sprayed with popcorn instead of finished off properly.

In order to do all that of course all cabinets must be removed from the walls. This leads to deciding to create a pantry upstairs in the kitchen instead of storing all the food downstairs in the laundry room where there was an overload of cabinets. While there was storage galore in this room, it was very inconvenient to constantly run downstairs for that can of tomato sauce or box of noodles for dinner.

Unfortunately I didn't get a very good before picture of the enclosed hallway this room looked like with 2 full walls of cabinets. The countertop was great on the one wall, but the room always felt very claustrophobic due to the excessive use of cabinets. Which didn't even match.

Bryan had already started removing cabinets when I remembered I didn't have a before picture. But you can tell where the cabinets used to be by the paint color on the wall.

Notice these cabinets don't match the ones on the other side of the room.

Progress being made. Walls all repaired, popcorn ceiling scraped, heating duct covered. Originally when we bought the house there were 2 laundry rooms. At one time our house functioned as an Adult Care facility. They had added a really crappy room outside our ugly laundry room door and put another set of washer & dryer out there. The plumbing was jimmy-rigged in here to accommodate the new "laundry facilities". We removed all that when fixing the bathroom downstairs, knowing we would repair the walls when we finished the laundry room. We also removed the room outside and reclaimed the lovely covered patio outside last year.

Halfway there! Texture sprayed & walls primed. Looks so much better already! We took a break in order to get some laundry done. Apparently when dad says "Get all your laundry done because the washing machine is coming out" that actually means wash a couple of pairs of pants, but forget to actually do the full basket of dirty clothes in your room. I think they get the concept of no washer & dryer while the room gets redone now.

So now it's on to the floors before we can paint the walls.

I know you can't see it, but the white circle in front of the kitty door is a perfect paw print cast out of some wet mud that dropped during the drywall phase of the project. Poor kitty wasn't too happy with dear old dad I'm sure! LOL

And what is the finished color going to be you ask? Well here is the wall color & fabric for the curtain for the door.

I absolutely love this fabric and plan on using it upstairs in the kitchen too. Only with green instead of the turquoise. The wall color is the new Martha Stewart paint at Home Depot. The color is called Hummingbird Blue. Matches the blue color in the fabric perfectly! The fabric is a Moda print of course. From the Cherish Nature line. I LOVE Moda fabrics!

It was actually sort of Bryan's idea to paint a bright color in here. He wanted to use a color for the walls! My dear hubby. Lover of white walls actually suggested using a color we haven't used yet. Something bright and different. I'm so proud of him! I never thought I would get to actually use a bright color like this in my house, but I'm so excited to try it out.

So this weekend it's removing old flooring and tiling the floor. Then we can paint! Can't wait!