DIY Laundry Room Re-Vamp!

As mentioned previously, Chance and I bought a 1970's farm house a couple of months ago. I bet the distributors of wood paneling are STILL living high on the hog because apparently is was all the rage during that decade. 

I'm not one to decorate a laundry room, but when you spend as much time in one as I do mine, you don't want to be swallowed by brown. Before Chance flipped it the were brown paneling walls, brown faux wooden laminate, brown doors, hell even the DOORKNOBS were brown. Oh and I just remembered the brown crown molding. So glad they threw that fancy touch in. There were double cabinets on either side of the window that Chance had already taken down before I got a picture. I'll give you ONE guess as to what color they were. (Hint: rhymes with Crown)

Before: 

I chose a deep blue for the walls. Chance thought I was crazy for selecting a darker color for a room that's not too terribly large, but with the window and a (soon to be) white door on each wall, I was confident. 

I'm CRAZY about it! 

Chance had this old door in his shop, so he slapped a couple coats of paint on it and it became my counter. 

HOLY LAUNDRY BASKETS. Everyone has their own "clean" basket that they take to their rooms to put up after everything has been washed. Yes, there really are that many of us! Chance and I share a laundry basket because we don't have 12 foot ceilings and he likes to live out of his clean basket. You remember how we all did that in college? He never really shook that habit and his would stay filled, so I put all of his clothes up while doing mine. I bitch about it under my breath and put hexes on everything while I do it, too. 

Each basket has the kid's name on the handle, and is hung by a screw, which is surprisingly strong enough to hold them up even when they're filled to the brim, as they usually are!

Here's Chesney's full of clothes, shoes and two full sized towels. 

I realize one basket is blue while the others are white but when it starts to bug me I'm reminded that there are people dying all over the world and I have bigger issues to worry about. 

To make up for the loss of storage space after removing the cabinets, Chance built a shelf with drying rod on the perpendicular wall. Perfect!

Until the next project, I'll leave you with this vision in a tuxedo Tshirt. 

Xoxo

Lo