This is my laundry room. Have you noticed that laundry rooms have some necessary things in them that are ugly? Like the tap/drain box and the outlet. You definitely need these at an easily accessible location, but they don’t add much charm to the room!
And since we all love doing laundry so much, we want our laundry rooms to be as cute and inviting as possible to lure us in!So here’s how I hid my laundry room “uglies”. . .
. . . a cute towel bar and towel to cover the electrical outlet. Found the towel bar on our local “Buy and Sell”. I’ve never actually had a towel hanging in the laundry room before, and I use it all the time – how did I not have one before?To cover the taps I used a long narrow basket that used to sit on my counter and hold the keys. I spray-painted it oil rubbed bronze to match my knobs and chandelier and stuck a fake plant in it. Fits perfectly and hides the lovely red and blue taps!
So much cuter!!!I think the vintage washer and dryer add to the charm. We got these babies just before our first daughter was born, so they’re over twenty years old now. We’ve only ever had one minor problem with the washer. Yay Kenmore!!!
I love the wall colour {Grey Evening by Behr}. And I love my light!!! See the lines it casts on the walls – feels like water, which seems appropriate for a laundry room.This is an interior room so there is no window. When I hung the mirror window on the wall it immediately brightened and enlarged the space. See that little brown bag sitting on the mirror ledge? It’s a bag of wild flower seeds that actually came from Green Gables in PEI. When I have a yard, I’ll plant them.
I really love my little laundry room. This is my view as I walk past it many times a day (it’s right beside my bedroom – very convenient!). See those white shelves in front of the washer? They’ll be going up on the wall over the sink someday. I’ve got more plans for this room – including a quote from President Thomas S. Monson about laundry!Stay tuned (hopefully within the year!).
Here’s the quote from Thomas S. Monson:
“Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant memories for the future…If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled, will disappear all too soon, and that you will, to your surprise, miss them, profoundly.”
