House Tour – The Laundry Room
I think that I’ve mentioned before that our house was a builder’s spec house. Everything was painted off-white. Now I know that so many of you love neutrals (and I have seen many gorgeous neutral rooms), but that just isn’t me. I have to have some color!
This print, by artist William Mangum, served as the inspiration for the decor of this entire room.
It is titled “Cynthia’s Garden” and I just love it! It was the very first Christmas present that Pookie ever gave me. Want to know why I love it so much? Look closer.
It’s that bunny! I first told you here about my love of bunnies.
If you aren’t familiar with William Magnum, I urge you check his work out – especially if you are from or live in or just plain ole love North Carolina.
Not only was this room painted off-white when we moved in, there was only a wire shelf above the washer/dryer and the worst excuse for a laundry sink that you ever saw. It didn’t take long for Pookie to replace the wire shelf with these
ready-made cabinets from Lowes.
The baskets up on top came from Target and hold extra paper towels, lightbulbs, napkins and stuff.
We replaced the ridiculous laundry sink with something better. We found a close-out base cabinet at Lowes, purchased a laundry sink and dropped it in. Pookie raised it up a little so it wouldn’t be so hard on my back when I wash the dogs.
Here’s a shot directly from the front.
Do you love that little birdy clock? I’ll do a feature one day about the place where I bought it for a song.
The towel holder was a Goodwill find. I think that I found the fingertip towel at Target.
Let’s take another look at the wall where my inspiration is located.
Wonder what that thing is below the picture? Why, it’s only the hardest working thing in the room – after the washer/dryer, that is. It’s an aluminum, expanding clothes rack. It may not be as pretty as some of the wooden ones that I’ve seen, but y’all, it will hold a ton of wet clothes.
I simply pull it out when I need to use it, then push it back against the wall when it’s no longer needed.
On the back wall, I originally intended to find and hang an old window frame with a mirror added to it. But once I decided to use “Cythia’s Garden” as my inspiration, I had an “Aha!” moment. After raiding my stash of stuff and finding a few things at Goodwill, my garden theme came together.
The shelf was originally white and was a Goodwill find. I found the little sign below it there too. It says “With each thought of you, happiness blooms”. Awww. The giant pear and fat, little birdies were found on clearance at Lowes.
The chalkboard was also a Goodwill find. It’s really a mirror with a silver frame. I painted over the mirror with chalkboard paint, painted the frame a glossy black and hot glued red ribbon down each side. Now I use a chalk pen (love those things!) to change out scripture that I want (or need!) to be reminded of.
I stole the topiary plate and garden plaque from my stash.
And lastly, the most recent addition are these two jars that I purchased at Walmart, One holds my washing powders (that’s laundry detergent for you non-Southerner’s) and the other holds clothespins. I cut oval shapes out of some black vinyl that I already had and wrote on them with the chalk pen.
Well, that’s it. Hope you enjoyed this tour of my little laundry room!
I love anything apple green! What a happy place to do laundry 🙂
You have probably used my very favorite color here and I love the red accents. Such a happy room that too often neglected design wise. Thanks so much for linking up your divine decor at BeColorful. I know everybody will love it as much as I do.
Pam
Your laundry room turned out great! I’m with you, I need some color around me, too. 🙂 Where did you get the drying rack? It would be perfect for our laundry room.
What a lovely laundry room! The wall colour is really nice and love all your decors 🙂
Anke – Please see my comment above yours for a place where you can buying a drying rack like this one.
Now you could really have fun doing laundry in this room! Love the color and that drying rack is so clever! A great use of space on that wall.
You’ve done a fabulous job here. I like all of it, especially your color choices.
Enjoy!!
Kathy
Love this space! Bright and cherry and that is what ya need in a room with no window! Mine is the same way.
So cute! Would you come and paint mine? I have got the paint,got to get to it.It is really nice. Thanks for sharing.
I LOVE this room! It’s super cute. Gal 2:20 is by far my favorite verse! Thanks for sharing!
Shannon @ Imperfectly-Inspired
I love this! We don’t have a room its more of a large closet, but I absoultely Love the clothes rack! You must let me know where you got it and if it comes in different sizes!
Kelli @ http://www.theinspirecollection.blogspot.com
Wow! How beautiful! I am with you about color…white is wonderful…but color pulls me right back. I am your newest follower. Found you @A Creative Princess’ Party.
Blessings, Audrey
Very pretty! I love the color and the glass laundry containers are adorable!
How lovely. We have only painted but done nothing else in our laundry room. This is certainly inspirational. Love the scripture.
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Thanks!
I have the exact same laundry room! (except I have a window where you have the chalkboard wall)
Q for you: do the lids on your jars rattle when you run the dryer? Because I have those (one with detergent and one with oxyclean) and they rattle like the dickens when the dryer runs. Atop the washer is even *worse*! I use fabric to dampen that, but I’m curious if yours do that same rattle thing.
Gyen – Yes, the lids on the jars rattle and drive me crazy when they do! I mostly solved the problem by applying thick, felt, stick-on pads to the bottoms of the jars (you can buy them at Lowes and Home Depot). That got rid of the problem most of the time, but I still have to mess with the lids once in a while. If they’re turned just right – they don’t rattle. Great question – thanks for asking!
Your laundry room is so cute! Love the bold green color, I always love a fun color in a small space, I did my laundry room over recently its about the same size as yours and did horizontal stripes on one wall. I’d love it if you could share this space at my link party….www.mysimplehomelife.com
Gorgeous!! I love it. I love how you put the cabinets above for more storage space. You can never have enough, right?!? You did an amazing job with it!
Jill @ http://twoyellowbirdsdecor.blogspot.com
Prettier than most people’s living rooms- you showed taste and attention to detail.
Who cares if the rest of the world loves neutrals – if you love color, go with it, which you did, beautifully.
Emma in Edmonton – I just realized that I never answered your question – so sorry! Yes, that is a drip pan under the washer. I don’t know where it came from – probably Lowes – it was put there by the builder. The building code in our county/state requires a drip pan underneath the washer.