New color!
New tile
AAAhhh! SO much better! Funny, they hold so much more but are smaller! Go figure!
Old floor
Really? Man, that's bad! What a boring room!
We've had a list of projects that we've wanted to tackle for awhile around the house. When we made the list, the laundry room wasn't even in the top ten! Well, a few months ago, our washer started making obnoxious noises - it got so bad that we started to worry about it affecting the stability of our house! So, it was moved up to #1!
We don't move too quick on projects without doing some research so I started looking and planning. Aaron had no idea that I was also looking at paint and tile color as well:)! As far as machines, there were a lot to choose from. Our laundry room is interesting - it is located beneath the stairs in a small closet - I have learned to be grateful where it is - I love that it is a separate room that you don't have to walk through to get to the garage. I also love that I can shut the door and not see the clothes. With our old set, however, when they were running the whole house seemed to move and hum. I had not heard all positive about the front loaders and had already decided to stick with the top loader washer. And the color didn't really matter to me as it was not a room to be viewed in Better Homes and Gardens any time soon. So I chose a front loader that held about twice what our old models held!
For the color on the walls I wanted to pull on the grey/blue that I've been adding to the kitchen and family room - it's darker but I LOVE how it turned out. For the floor we chose a lighter color with greys and khaki's. We spent conference weekend painting and tiling (Thanks Todd for your help!) and the new machines were delivered yesterday! Happy Day! I didn't realize how bad our old ones looked until I saw these - I want to apologize now to any family and friends who have used our laundry room! How you must have run away! But guess what! I dried a whole load of towels today in 25 minutes! My old dryer was up to 1 1/2 hours for the same load! I feel like I've just been handed the gift of time! And I can't believe I'm blogging about appliances but with all the time I spend washing, this is really a treat for me! Now all I want to do to finish off the room is to build some shelves in above the washer and add some cool laundry prints - almost there!
3 comments:
It looks beautiful! I love the blue color. And aren't new machines the best? Makes you wonder how you did it before, doesn't it.
I have that exact same washing machine. Scott got it for me 2 years ago and I love it. It does wash a big load of clothes. Your laundry room looks great too.
Your laundy room looks wonderful, but beware. One change means that you want to keep on changing things and that's lots of work and a lot of time and money. Karen bought a new bedroom set and then informed me that we were painting and getting new carpet before it was going to be delivered. Our whole house has been a state of move things out/move thing in for a month now and we didn't even do the painting or carpeting. Our painter said "Good bye" yesterday so it's our "baby" now. I'll try to send pictures when things are cleaned up and presentable. I'm a slow worker.
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