Laundry

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

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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

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 a place for everything and everything in its place!

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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

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 a place for everything and everything in its place!

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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.

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$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

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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!

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I am a blessed woman today as I work on my loads of love in my beautiful laundry room!

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