(The washer and dryer can both be pulled out too.) He used wheels to make it a little rolling cart instead of drawers so we can pull it out and get easier access behind there if needed. So, I asked Wyatt if he could DIwYatt for me. The little custom cabinet between the washer and dryer was also crucial! I found this option on Amazon but it wasn’t the perfect size and wouldn’t give us the built in look I really wanted. Not only does it look amazing, but NO socks or diapers or lint balls or dollar bills or random toys will fall back there ever again! Victory! At first, we were just going to do the shelf and the backsplash above it, but then at the last minute, we decided it wouldn’t be much harder and would look MUCH better to also add the backsplash BELOW the shelf to close everything off.
I obviously follow them for design inspiration but I had pinned this laundry room to my board before I even knew it was theirs! So that was a fun surprise when I clicked over to the site.īecause we don’t have a front load washer (we actually really like this top loader and since we use cloth diapers, it gets a workout each week), I knew a shelf above the washer would help make them look built in. I had been inspired by this wooden backsplash by Chris Loves Julia in their laundry room. Honestly though, my favorite thing is the wooden shelf and backsplash.
Still not as good as a window, but the next best thing. (We got the large size, but there is also a smaller one.) It kind of blends into the ceiling but also adds a bit of fun if you really look at it.Īnd let me tell you, it is BRIGHT. It had been a cheap fluorescent we put up right after we moved in because it originally only had a single 60 watt bulb, which was NOT enough for a room where I’m supposed to see stains and try to clean them. This time we went for an LED with a subtle geometric vibe. You can check it out here. The finished result is so nice and fresh and bright, but it’s not a particularly fun process to get there.Īnother important decision was the ceiling light. After that I am OVER IT.Įspecially when it’s white paint over white paint over white primer over white primer. Thank goodness it’s a small room because I might have gone crazy with just that part of the process. I actually don’t mind painting, the first two coats. In case you’re wondering how many coats of white paint it takes to cover a bright teal paint, it’s two coats of primer and two coats of paint+primer. There is zero natural light in this room so we wanted it to be as light as possible. (It’s actually really easy!) Then, the walls got a nice clean bright white as well. You can read all about our process of removing popcorn ceilings here. But, I am not wanting to drop several hundred dollars on a wide angle lens at the moment…so we’ll just do our best to share the loveliness with what we have to work with.įor starters, we scraped the popcorn ceiling and painted it a fresh, bright white. I think that’s how it’s supposed to be, right?Īnyway, let’s dive into the laundry room a bit more, shall we? I want to say that I’m bummed this room is so hard to photograph because it honestly does look so much better in person. Our style is changing and our abilities are improving, so every room we do becomes my new favorite. Now that I’ve seen how good it can look, I feel a little sad we waited so long to tackle this, but I know it wouldn’t have looked this good if we had done it a few years ago. Not once ever, I don’t think, in the six years we’ve lived here. As a reminder, this is what we had before, only a small cabinet on one side and it was NOT very functional for us at all! I was using hangers to hold lunch bags and coolers on the drying rack thing because we literally never used that for clothes. It’s better than I even hoped it would be!įrom the beginning, I knew I wanted a shelf above the washer and dryer, and cabinets all the way to the ceiling and all the way across the wall above them. I mean, isn’t this lovely? I just want to stand in here and soak it in every day. Plus, we’re beginning the year with a beautiful new laundry room, so there totally could be worse things in life, right? All of which did get done…so, I can’t complain too much I don’t think. I know that’s technically a fail, but, honestly, October was a rough month for home projects because we were busy with projects for Emma’s first birthday, Halloween ( did you see our costumes this year? Amazingly cute, right?), and tearing down our shed and getting the house painted. Well, it’s 2019 now and that means we missed the ending of the one room challenge by two months since we were supposed to be done at the end of October/beginning of November.
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