My Laundry Room Makeover
I know I’ve mentioned the new Laundry room a few times now, but I decided it’s important enough in my life to warrant an entire entry of it’s own. First off a huge thank you to my nextdoor neighbour Greg who is a plumber and could make all of this magic happen! Here’s the old kitchen “laundry closet” soon to be my “utimate pantry” (this will be an upcoming post as I need your best ideas!
For the past 7 years I had been doing laundry in my kitchen, which I know is not that bad as I didn’t have to lug everything down to the basement, but to me a kitchen is for food, appliances and eating, not buzzers, mismatched socks and dryer lint! The old laundry team- my trusty Maytags that I bought from a friend have been great machines for the past 12 years. When we decided to move things upstairs we realized that they were not going to fit in the 4×7 room, so a stacked front loading set was the answer. I decided to look up that friend that I bought the Maytags from all those years ago, and noticed her current machines from some Facebook photos were much older. I decided to pay it forward and offer the machines back to her. She was delighted!
The new Silver Blue Kenmore set has been here for about 6 weeks, but it wasn’t until about 3 weeks ago that we got everything installed. I am in laundry bliss! It’s amazing this new technology. Wow did I ever sound like my grandmother there, but it’s so true! Now wash cycles do seem to take longer, but the dryer totally makes up for that. Most loads are completely dry in about 25 minutes! I think it would take me longer to walk downstairs and hang out my clothes on the clothesline than to wait for them in the dryer!
I still need to set up some sort of shelving unit on the right hand wall. Ideally I’d like to have an area for detergent, a place to hang things to dry and a place to store empty laundry baskets. Yes they’re empty, before they always had either dirty items, or stuff that had not yet been folded or folded but not yet put away. So send me your ideas!
September 24th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Great job and love the washer and dryer set! I picture a floor to ceiling pantry cupboard and some bright metal art on the walls in yellows, reds, grey and black. Your moldings would look good painted white. A metal “coat rack” that hangs on the wall (similar to hotels) can be placed on that wall for hanging items up and you’d even have a spot up top for some wicker or woven baskets (for things like toques, gloves, etc.) and a spot down below for 2 baskets.
Great job!
October 25th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
The laundry room makeover looks great Cara!