Laundry Room Touch-Up
I have seen some very pretty laundry rooms on Blogger here within the last few weeks, I have laundry room envy! The house came with this awful paneling and dark shelves. I would love to paint and get real cabinets to hide my stuff...some stuff I can hide in my antique baskets but not those tall dorky liquid laundry soap bottles..Am I the only one that still used the liquid kind..the powder is so very pretty and elegant in those glass bottles. I have a small collection of antique baskets and for awhile there I started to collect anything Amish, you can see a few in my laundry room. I dusted and moved alot out of here, it has become the catch-all for recycling, pets, and camping..uugghh. This is what I have done today on this very cold snowy slow day, the kids have come home early from school and are doing homework now.
Yes, that is Wheeler, he doesn't know that he is really an outside cat..lol..
13 comments:
Looks great. I have a very small utility room. I will have to show it one day. Oh and I still use the liquid.
You asked about my bears. I started collecting in 98 and stopped in 06. I just had way too many. You should have seen my collection before I started down sizing. I still have a few stuffed in the attic and some holiday resin in the clock. The clock has storage behind it. I used to have the houses and some dolls but I did away with all that. Now I am a basket nut. Which by the way I love your baskets.
Donna
I still use the liquid too! And painting the paneling would make such a difference. I found it much easier than I thought it would be. Shhh - don't tell - I didn't even use primer - I just ued top quality paint!
Heather,
Looks real cute. We spend so much time there it should be pretty.
NANCY JO
cute :) I've been meaning to do stuff to ours..... I think you inspired me
heather, stop over by my blog. the pic of my pantry area is over top of my washer and dryer. i painted the paneling and stencilled stars. :)
you got me thinking on what we could use for liquid laundry soap.... cause i use it too. :)
I would paint the paneling like Linda said and a prim color for the shelves. By the way I still use the liquid.
Michelle
The room looks great! Thank you for coming over to my blog. I am not sure if Gretchen did it or not but I can't wait till next week. I think I will be very sad if she did. That was so mean of them to do that to her. Hugs, Bobbi Jo
Your laundry room looks very nice!
Belle (homesteaderbelle)from MJF
I love it. You have a nice large laundry room. We just have our washer and dryer in the basement.
Ruth
Your laundry room has lots of potential! Paint that paneling and you'll think you have a new house, I swear!
I still use liquid laundry detergent. I don't have room to fit both that and my fabric softener in the the cupboard, though because I have little cupboard space and use the cupboards above the washer and dryer for so many things. Anyway, my fabric softener sits inside a crock. You can still see the top of it but it works :) They really do need to make something to put liquid detergent in. It's just not fair!
Have a great day
Leslie
I think it's looking great Heather. A lil' spruce up never hurt anybody and yes, I'm right there with you - on that laundry room envy. Aren't there some gorgeous ones out there. Mine is actually in need of a serious redo - might tackle that next. Have a great evening! Cathy
P.S. Wish we were snowed in - but it missed us :( .
Wow! It looks just wonderful. I've been antsy about my laundry room and just bought a quart of paint and a sponge at Walmart today. Now I've never painted a thing in my life ... well I did once and it was a disaster ... but I'm ready for a makeover. Soon my laundry room will go from plain old cream to Autumn Sunset. Doesn't that sound nice? Hope it looks as nice on the wall.
Smiles,
Lea
Heather, I too an in laundryroom envy. My laundryroom is very small. I have two open shelves and a cabinet with a door on it. I hung a curtain to hide the open shelves, because they always look messy. They are the wire shelves, not wood like your's.
They are above the washer & dryer and the waterheater is in another corner. Not much room in there for anything else. The only plus is that it has a door to close it off.
Maybe one of these days, I will have the laundryroom of my dreams. And I hope you will too.
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