Laundry Room Remodel!

I have been meaning to show you guys our laundry room for a while now. You are riveted, I can tell. You mean the place you clean your dirty underwear? Yes please, let me seeee.

Laundry room just out of site...

Remember when we remodeled our kitchen? Well, we had to wait for a little while before we could finish the laundry room because we were out o monay. To me, the kitchen was not truly completed until the laundry was all finished up. Mostly because it was such an eye sore, especially the hot water heater, just sitting there like a troll. Ugh.

Laundry room when we first saw the home in 2009. The whole house was painted "hot urine."  As you can see, it was just a pass through to the outside with a door that closed it off form the kitchen. I hated that because I wanted to see out to the back yard from the kitchen.

Scott, our contractor's rear. Sorry Scott. Here he is installing our "new" front load washer and dryers. Say hello to the hot water heater troll.

What we did:

1. Replaced our old washer dryer with front loaders (that we bought for a few hundo off of my sis, thanks Linette!) We added a deep wooden counter top from Ikea to create a work surface.

2. Put up a wall between the "utility" or hot water troll/recycling/yard-shit area and the food/laundry areas. Installed shelving with under-mount lighting (which we never use, really). Added doors to hide the laundry when not in use. Its all painted BM Grant Beige, like the kitchen. Same hardware as kitchen too.

Notice the door. It was the original front door to our home. Now we have this one. 

This is what it usually looks like around here. We have a heavy duty storm door,. We also painted the shed a dark green so that it wouldn't stand out when we had the door open, now it just blends into the background.  We love those doors btw.

3. Created a top storage area with pull out shallow drawers for storing things we really hardly use, like the pot O bought for making spinach that is so huge, it hovers over two burners on our stove. Sweet.

4. We recycle, so we needed something that would fit into a very small, read: shallow space. Enter Amazon. But, because we buy so much from Amazon, we needed two containers to hold all of that cardboard and such. So we just stack them. Classy, but it fits and we can close the door and pretend we are all neat and stuff.

How it looks when the doors are closed. I love the hardware (notice we never altered the previous door jam, lazy).

The space is layed out so that we can open the left door, and get to everything we usually need. But we have to open the whole thing to wash clothes, or get to things on the right side. Notice the lighting, sweet. Also, the wooden counter is un-finished due to impatience. 

5. We removed the ceiling flush pendant that was originally in the room, b/c due to the built out laundry area it was no longer centered. Plus, I hate overhead lighting. Instead we went for over door sconces.

6. The rug is from Flor. To my mind, this room is begging for a beautiful, bright rug like this one. But reality is a soggy dog with muddy feet and spilled tomato sauce with a side of yard shit. Thus.

The whole glorious shebang. This is what it actually looks like, right now. No preppy styling for you to be jealous of how neat and beautiful my life is. I can get to everything I need, and I love having my vases up there, all nice and ready for me to grab. 

The only part I am not showing you is the very top, with the pull out storage drawers. But you can guess what those are like. There is a ladder that fits perfectly in between the hot water heater and the dividing wall that we use to get up there. There you have it. I have been on a huge nesting surge lately, and I cleaned it the hell out recently, so its all pared down to only what we actually use. Ahhh, feels good. Our local Good Will is bursting with our stuff.