Lightening up the Laundry Room

Our laundry room is a small space that shoots off from a small hallway at the side entrance (which we never use).  It's in a part of the house that's often forgotten, even though it gets used on a regular basis.

Before and after

We're slowing making some changes in here.  As you saw from the last post, we now have a shelf for folding (thanks, Dad).  We also painted the inside and the outside of the cabinets white (Valspar white semi-gloss; the same white we use for all the trim). Priming and painting also helped take care of the old dryer sheet smell that seeped into the wood. We also added new shiny silver knobs.

Dark cabinets

White cabinets

To top things off we bought ourselves a new dyer!  It's nothing fancy (it was the cheapest model--Admiral--on sale at Home Depot for $299), but it works better than our old one which had to run for three hours before everything was dry.

When the old dryer was hauled out, we started painting the walls.  I can't tell you the exact color because it was a $3.00 can of "mistake paint" from Lowes, but it's some kind of periwinkle. We still have a couple walls to paint but it's already transforming from a dark cave to a laundry room that doesn't feel so much of a chore to be in anymore.