I’m about to show you a room that I never intended to. My horrible, cluttered laundry room is a space that I keep the door shut. I’m not proud of it. In fact, most of the time it stinks in there like sour towels. Can you relate? I’m not the perfect housewife. In fact, I have been known to forget about a load of laundry in the washer for a few DAYS, yes days. In fact, there are times when I restart the sour load of laundry and then forget about it AGAIN!
So, hold onto your hats peeps…I’m showing you a disaster.
Need a few extra boob lights? We have some you can borrow.
Until now, as you can tell, the laundry room was the catch-all for crap. If someone didn’t have a spot for something, it ended up piled on the shelves in the laundry room.
Did you know that the average family does around 400 loads of laundry a year!?!? Well, I guarantee that our family does WAAAAY more than 400 loads. How did I figure that? Well, I have 4 kids. We have more kids than the “average” family of 2{ish} kids. So I think we do around 800 loads of laundry a year. Ok, I may be exaggerating, but it feels like a MILLION.
So, I decided to redo the laundry room with one goal in mind, “Create a space that I want to be in {kind of}.” I knew it was impossible to make the laundry room my haven and mom cave. Let’s be honest, I HATE laundry. But, the room hasn’t changed since we moved in 4 years ago. So, I figured it would be worth a try to change it up. Plus, I wanted the room to be a place that the kids enjoyed. After all, laundry is part of life, and it’s time to enlist the older kids to help out.
I started out by unpacking all the crap from the room. It felt good to throw away items that have never been unpacked in the last 4 years of home ownership. Why the heck was I holding onto this crap!?!?
Then I gave the entire room a good scrub. It felt good to finally wipe down the shelves that had been cluttered for so long. Are you the one that is on a monthly schedule and takes everything off your shelves and wipes them off? If so, we can’t be friends. You would hate me and look at me with judgmental eyes.
After the space was good and clean, I started out by painting the backs of the cubbies with chalkboard paint.
It took a few coats to cover, but the kids were already excited about the room.
Then we headed to the good ‘ol Home Depot and began picking out colors. I let the kids pick out the color they wanted in their cubby and then manipulated them to choose the colors I wanted. Shhhh, don’t tell them, they think this entire project was their idea.
We chose: Lipstick 170B-6, Watermelon Pink 120B-6, Emerald Coast 490B-6, Lemon Lime 390B-7, and Jazzy Jade T13-12.
I got $3.00 samples of each color {except the Jazzy Jade because I already had a gallon at home from our recent entryway makeover}.
I taped off each cubbie with my trusty Scotch Blue painter’s tape and got busy painting away. I painted the cubbies all different and then painted the edges with the Jazzy Jade.
After the painting was complete, I took the kids along to buy a few accessories and they had a blast helping me choose the art, and containers for the room.
The kids chose this cute puppy picture that we found at Ross for $14.99 to hang in the room. It has the perfect colors and it makes me smile when I walk by the room. I think the kids did a great job choosing the accessories!
I can’t keep them OUT of this room.
Now all I need is to do some laundry!
linking to Thrifty Decor Chicks Before and After party!