• Laundry

    Monday, January 28, 2013

    My laundry room looked like this last week

    It is a wonderful large space but
    very dark due to the window’s light being blocked by the deck, and
     
    It wasn’t finished,

    Before




    My goal list
    ~
    Mud and tape drywall
    Paint the walls white
    Paint the linoleum floors and the counter top a light gray
    Hang shelves above washer and dryer
    Cover the big blue tank (which is a backwash tank part of your water purification system)
    Paint the furniture
    Hang a shelf over the sewing desk
    Replace the lights
    Spray paint the cabinet knobs black on the built-ins  
    Hang a clothes line
    Make chalk board hearts to hang above laundry baskets to label darks and whites (for the kids)
    Reframe pictures
    Create a cleaning supply bucket for the laundry room
    Organize all my craft supplies ~ a place for everything and everything in its place!
    Decorate!
    After


    Mud and tape drywall

    Paint the walls white
    Paint the linoleum floors and the counter top a light gray
     
    Spray paint the cabinet knobs black on the built-ins  

    Paint the furniture


    Hang a shelf over the sewing desk





     
    Organize all my craft supplies
    ~
     a place for everything and everything in its place!
    ~


    Hang a clothes line

    Make chalk board hearts to hang above laundry baskets to label darks and whites (for the kids)


    Spray paint silver basket black, (I got it on sale for $2.00) hang by folding table for lost socks



    Hang shelves above washer and dryer


    Reframe pictures


    Liquid dispenser used for my laundry soap, and my precious linen water that touches my sheets with spring
     

     
    A basket to hide all the laundry supplies I need on hand (iron, dryer balls, stain remover) but do not want to look at all the time
     
     
    Create a cleaning supply bucket for the laundry room
     


    Organize all my craft supplies
    ~
     a place for everything and everything in its place!
    ~


     
    Cover the blue tank (which is a backwash tank part of your water purification system) 
      the wood we got from a pallet that was in our barns

     
     This is my cost breakdown.
    ~
     
    $300.00 Used furniture ~ desk and wardrobe
    $20.00 Mud and tape supplies
    $15.00 Wall paint
    $40.00 Floor paint
    $10.00 Black spray paint for cabinet knobs
    $60.00 Light Fixtures
    $29.00 Curtain to cover the blue tank ~ the wood we got from a pallet that was in our barns
    $80.00 Ikea shelves ~ above washer & dryer and desk
    $40.00 Ikea rod with storage buckets ~ above sewing desk
    $20.00 Drying rack
    $24.00 Burlap cork board ~ on shelf above sewing desk
    $15.00 Picture frames
    $10.00 Liquid dispenser ~ designed for drinks but I use for my laundry soap.
    $40.00 Cleaning bucket microfiber cloths and cleaning supplies
    $219.00 Baskets, storage containers and decoration
    $50.00 Gas (I will add my gas price into the total expense for my accurate detail oriented engineer husband!)
    Grand Total = $982.00
    ~
    It took me
      with help from Roger
    a week!
    I am so delighted with how this room turned out. I do so much laundry and spend so much time in this room. I now have a lovely laundry room to conquer the piles of dirty laundry! I am also thrilled to have a craft room, life never affords me the luxury of starting and completing a project in one sitting, yet I could not leave my project on the kitchen table with all my little people ‘helping out’. Now when I have a few free moments I can work on my project then leave it, all set up and close the door behind me!
    ~
    I am a blessed woman today as I work on my loads of love in my beautiful laundry room!
    ~
    

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