Laundry Room Design Musings...

Hey everyone...I have been working on our laundry room for some time now (about 6 months) and am working on the finishing touches. The wall opposite the washer and dryer is going to need an ironing board station, ample folding space, pull out trash bin, and room for the dirty clothes hampers. Here are a few of my ideas

I installed these new cabinet pulls I got from Anthropology. Arent they magnificent?!

 Would love to make a little bench with beadboard like this in a small corner of the laundry room

 Fun DIY Laundry project I plan to do in the next month. Isnt it a cute idea for a change catcher?

 

Dont know why these leather simple pulls appealed to me...perhaps because I can make them? ;-)

 This is another I plan to make and put in the nook above the sink to hang wet clothes to dry.

 I know...its a little much...but since I am doing this to make my parent in laws house nice...it needs to match the rest of the house. This is certainly a bit larger than my laundry room. But the cabinets is what I love about this space. It is all custom work and has just about every sort of storage you would need.

 Like the different heights and depths of these upper cabinets. What do you think? Too messy?

 See the ironing cabinet in the back? Yep...lovely! Thats what I'm hoping to accomplish with my big cabinet makeover (see earlier post)!

If I were to paint the cabinets a shade other than white I would paint them this color. So pretty. I also love how the cabinets arent all facing the same direction.

Cabinet Makeover with pictures

 This is the before shot of the tall cabinet I am trying to makeover for our laundry room. Do you think I could make it into an ironing board holder where the ironing board comes down when you open the door?

 Outside primed and painted with a white semi-gloss spray paint.

 

Inside primed and hand painted with a glossy paint and the back of the cabinet has blue wallpaper I purchased from Ebay. Pretty, right?

A Laundry Room Makeover with Built-in folding area (repurposed an old desk top)

 This was a lot more difficult than it looks. The picture above is after all the cutting, caulking, and painting. I have more pictures of the process...I will post if interested.

It had SUCH promise to be more than this...

My Before & After Shots of a craigslist French Louis chair makeover (ONLY $20!)

This is what it looked like after I reupholstered it with vintage grainsack linen

Sorry for the bad photo...this was the before in midstage once I'd stripped the old fabric off.

 This is what the chairs looked like when I first got them. (only $80 for all four of them on Craigslist!) but that moldy fabric had to go (perhaps even the old blue paint)