Sunday, January 25, 2015

Laundry room reveal! (before & after)

I keep waiting for the perfect amount of sunlight and the perfect artwork and for every bit of the room to be perfectly clean, but you know what?  Life, y'all.  A whole lot of life happens in a laundry-room/mudroom combo when you have eight humans and two dogs living in one house, know what I'm saying?  So I'm just gonna show you now and it's gon' be great.  Greaty greaty great great.

Ready?

Before:

taken the first weekend after we closed on the house

taken after our first weeks of living here









 You know why I started with this room?  Because we haven't closed on the sale of the old house and can't rip out the kitchen yet!  Yay!  (it's going to be so wonderful/horrible when we get to that point, see.ree.ous.LEE.)

Ready for the mostly finished product?



I got this stick up light from Amazon to brighten up my laundry corner.  Cheesy Catholiciness ftw.

that set of cubbies on the left isn't even finished.  They didn't have enough pieces in stock at Menards, dagnabit!


tools on the bench = real life happening


Do you love it?  Wanna see what took the longest?

Fixing.  This.  Ceiling.
before

after

You guys.  It used to be BLUE.  Blue.  Blue!
before

after
But it was sooooo worth it.  And it was basically an exercise regimen, what with the up-and-down off the step stool and the arms-over-the-head-bicep-burn


before




after




before


after
Sometimes I just to in there and stare at the trim and drool.

Before
During

can you believe that before it was brown it was ORANGE???

After




Thank you all for making our lives so sweet.  Here's to you!

Inspired Eggshell Interior Paint, Aspire .01, Gallon
Roundhill Quality Solid Wood Shoe Bench with Storage, White
Lockube modular shelving cubes 
Door color: Turquoise Tint by Valspar
Free-standing drying rack
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30 comments :

  1. Charlotte (WaltzingM)January 25, 2015 at 10:51 PM

    I think the only thing this post is missing is a bicep before/after. Let's see those muscles, woman!

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  2. UnknownJanuary 25, 2015 at 10:56 PM

    I'm highly disappointed I don't see that RAD Menard's toilet lid in there somewhere. #fail But, seriously, I love that cheery yellow. It's lovely Dweej!

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  3. Erica SaintJanuary 25, 2015 at 11:03 PM

    I love the colors. It looks fantastic!

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2015 at 11:33 PM

    The ceiling is so much better! Love the colors. Just beautiful!

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  5. LeAnnaJanuary 26, 2015 at 1:28 AM

    I love it! It's so fresh & feminine & bright.

    The pic my feed displayed with this post was one of the "befores" and I was feeling pretty worried. Along the lines of "but this is worse". So glad it wasn't true, lol.

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  6. Mary @ Better Than EdenJanuary 26, 2015 at 5:58 AM

    Love the door color and the ceiling! Ah, the power of caulk!!!

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  7. JENJanuary 26, 2015 at 7:51 AM

    I like it! I'm glad it's nice as I'm sure you spend a great deal of time in there!

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  8. Miss MerryJanuary 26, 2015 at 9:10 AM

    Gorgeous!! 8 humans and that room looks terrific! I am down to the two of us (well, kinda almost 3) and I would just curl up and die if my laundry room looked that fabulous!!! You are the winner!!!

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  9. CatJanuary 26, 2015 at 9:30 AM

    The paint is great, but thank you for caulking! Makes a world of difference. Also, cabinets in a laundry room are a winning idea. Great job.

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  10. Laura @ Keeping Up With the MikesJanuary 26, 2015 at 9:51 AM

    The wall of coats is the best part! You are so blessed!

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  11. JamieJanuary 26, 2015 at 10:16 AM

    I love it! Love the cubbies, love the shelf, love the blue door! :)

    Jamie

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  12. Hannah GokieJanuary 26, 2015 at 10:56 AM

    Your caulk job looks fantastic. When we renovated our nursery, I felt like putting so many hours (so many!) into the caulking was worthless, but it makes a HUGE difference in how finished everything looks! Looks great!!

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  13. AndreaJanuary 26, 2015 at 11:48 AM

    Oh, Dwija I am so happy for you. This is just so, so lovely! All of your hard work is evident and what a wonderful space!!

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  14. EmilyJanuary 26, 2015 at 11:59 AM

    So beautiful!! Love everything about it!

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  15. HannahJanuary 26, 2015 at 2:33 PM

    I love seeing the house blessing! Just this last Christmas we learned this was a thing...and then came home to our purchased-right-before-Christmas house and found the blessing over one of our doors! From 1999! So cool!

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  16. LisaJanuary 26, 2015 at 3:06 PM

    Love that door!! And the room looks great- so much natural light, too. :)

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  17. AnonymousJanuary 26, 2015 at 4:02 PM

    I love the aqua door! what a great choice!

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  18. EvaJanuary 26, 2015 at 4:05 PM

    That room looks like it's ready to get to work! Love the door. Good job!

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  19. FrancineJanuary 26, 2015 at 6:36 PM

    It looks so great! I wish my laundry room was that bright and cheerful! :) Maybe it would help if it wasn't in the basement...

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  20. UnknownJanuary 26, 2015 at 10:35 PM

    Okay, I'm missing something. What is the algebra-looking code on your door? Love love love the colors. So fun. You are my hero when it comes to house-doing and ohmygoshidon'tknowthefirstthingaboutwhatproducttgoesonwhatproblem. Can I rack your brain when it comes time? (P.s. It really is rack and not wrack. I just had to check, because nerd.)

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  21. Csmithfamily09January 26, 2015 at 10:55 PM

    I like it very much! The color and the trim are great and I love the windows and that door! In my entryway I needed coat space so I bought an 8 ft pine board (super cheap) painted it matte black and put 12 large white screw hooks into it, (rubberized so I can hang wet things without rust forming). It cost less than $15 and looks really nice, something like that would be good in there.

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  22. NicoleJanuary 27, 2015 at 7:19 AM

    LOVE it! Yay for this!

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  23. theresa EHJanuary 27, 2015 at 8:14 AM

    I have laundry room envy right now. Thank you for the link to the light. I work in an interior office and my workspace is under a set of shelves that creates a dark spot. worst of all I have used all of the electrical outlets so no room for a desk lamp.

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  24. AileenJanuary 27, 2015 at 8:47 AM

    I LOVE this!! What a difference! So bright and finished looking. So happy for you and your family in this great house. :)

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  25. dutchdanishJanuary 27, 2015 at 2:53 PM

    Love the colour of the door, the ceiling and the cabinets above the washer/dryer. How was it that there weren't any before? Seems like such an obvious need right by the washer/dryer! Great job with the cheery colours!

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  26. dutchdanishJanuary 27, 2015 at 5:03 PM

    Here's the Ephiphany Blessing that's on the door:
    http://www.carmelites.net/news/chalking-door-epiphany-house-blessing-2015/

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  27. UnknownJanuary 27, 2015 at 8:40 PM

    LOVE the door!! Great color choice!

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  28. PattyJanuary 29, 2015 at 9:28 PM

    Yowzer!! Great job!! And that door color...love it!

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  29. LisaFebruary 4, 2015 at 1:02 AM

    Looks great! Love the color of your door!

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