The Laundry Room-after

Surprisingly (and you're going to laugh) the laundry room was relatively easy (that is-compared to the kitchen). Yes, we....
removed walls,
flooring,
ceiling,
put in new electric and drywall,
leveled the floor with cement,
tiled the floor,
painted walls with stripes and then
painted trim...whew!
But....all in all, it was a pretty basic reno.



It's coming....We did replace the windows and that made a huge difference! Not only do we not feel cold air blowing in, but the new windows look huge!

 I absolutely love stripes! After many failed attempts to mathematically calculate it, we went ahead and painted and I love the effect! To see more on painting stripes, click here.

Remember that old paneled closet in the previous picture? Well, it's gone and in it's place is more space and a "do it yourself" dry-erase calendar. to see more pictures of the calendar, click here.






Ahhh....so fresh and bright. It almost makes doing laundry enjoyable. Almost.

The Laundry Room-during

In this particular house, the laundry room space became huge after we took out the paneled closet in between the kitchen and the half bathroom. This is good. It's nice to have more area than you actually need for rooms like these because we can store our little Toto's crate in there and have room to fold clothes. In our old house, I could not open the door to the laundry room and open the dryer door at the same time. It was a balancing act of squeezing in there, closing the door, and then opening the dryer door to remove clothes. Those days are long gone....ah. But anyways, here is a picture of the walls, floor and ceiling apart.

And here is a picture of the green tiling removed with the washer and dryer once again moved into place. The washer and dryer, like many of our appliances became moving vehicles it seemed. There were many times we wished they would just sprout wheels! Oh, and you can even see the little dolly made it into this picture, so in a sense, they did grow wheels!

The Laundry Room-before

With the laundry room, let me first start by saying how blessed we are that our laundry room was upstairs on the first floor. We had looked at other houses where the laundry room was in the basement and we were wanting to move it upstairs. After dealing with moving kitchen plumbing around, I am so thankful that we did not need to run any laundry room plumbing. Here is a before shot of the laundry room:

Here's another shot from the other direction looking into the old kitchen and bathroom. The big "paneled" thing in the middle is actually a paneled closet. The benefit of a renovation is that you can completely change things around. It's amazing what you can think of if you have a little creativity. One of my favorite slogans has become: Where there's a will, there's a way. We didn't like the closet...so we took it out.