My Laundry Room Transformaion

Sadly, my laundry room is a pass through to the garage! Yes, I hate that fact. It is small and only comfortable for one person working in there. On a positive side, it has a wonderful built-in bench that opens for sorting clothes and a coat closet. My young and cute, handy dandy handyman came over and gave it a face lift.  Here is what we did...

Added Bead Board in the alcove of the built-in bench.

Added trim to the front of the bench...this is before I painted.

Before we move on further, I want you to see what it looked like when we moved in 8 years ago.

Before...Yuck!

Just a white room with two wire shelves above the washer/dryer and of course that built-in bench. Okay, now remember, this was a while ago and I wanted to add color...plus I LOVE to garden, so I painted a mural on the alcove wall and the rest was painted in clouds...And we added cabinets on the walls where the wire shelves are here.

Over the top

A little of this goes a long way...if you know what I mean.

The berry basket turned on it's back was a great solution for empty hanger storage.

This worked for four years then I came around to wanting something more FRESH and clean looking. Not busy or too colorful in this tiny room. So my young and cute, handy dandy handyman put up this bead board right over that painted garden!

Then, I finished up the rest. I painted the bead board in my white. I painted the walls by mixing several different paints until I came up with a soft color that I could live with. I changed out the light fixture and added a rod between the cabinets to hang empty hangers. So NOW, here is the final reveal of my laundry room.

Just a little left over decor up high.

Old vintage hangers for decor

These are old silverware handles. I cut off the fork or spoon, I bent them after filing them to eliminate any sharp spots. Then I drilled a hole in the handle and mounted to a board for holding our keys.

I added this rod for hanging 'hang up clothes' until I take them upstairs.

Hooks were purchased at a garage sale to save tons of money...have you priced fancy hooks?

Very old fruit and roses picture that I found on an antiquing trip.

My dear friend Gail made this black apron. The other one is vintage.

It has a more open feeling now, it's simple and functional. I don't have much display space not only because it's a small room, but I don't want to clean the lint that seems to get on every surface in that room.

Note: Notice how in 8 years, I have been through three washer and dryers. The first set was getting old so we gave them to my son...he still has them. The second set was Maytag. Years ago in Tulsa, I had a Maytag set that I loved. So I wanted another set. Well let me tell you this Maytag set did nothing but put lint on every piece of clothing. I hated it, so we sold them quickly and bought my new Whirlpool Cabrio. I love these. They do a great job.





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