The Laundry Room Makeover You Need at Home

This Laundry Room makeover is something I have wanted to do since we bought our home in Oct of 2017. if you check my Pinterest board you can tell.

It was green with a wallpapered border trim and oddly placed cabinets, and while it was completely unnecessary, the laundry room is at the top of the stairs so every day it annoyed me. [shown below]

Every day I walked up the stairs and hated it. It did not spark joy. It needed to be fixed.

Because we were working on this bench, I decided to use the left over paint we had from the playroom and guest room and went to town.

SEE MY ORIGINAL LAUNDRY ROOM INSPIRATION HERE

The trick to wallpaper is warm warm and white water vinegar. I drenched it and then while it was wet used a plastic scraper to peel it off. When I used a scrub sponge to clean the wall of residue several times before painting.

I used the trick of painting the ceiling the same color. When you are using an almost white, like the Taupe Tease I used, it looks so much cleaner. And leaves you less edges to fret over.

Jeff took down the cabinets and originally we wanted to add a custom cabinet to the left side, but now with it open and having only the ledge, I love how clean it is in there.

I have been reading The Minimalist Home, and if you create a space like a cabinet, it will fill up with junk.

The ledge is one 2’x12’x8ft standard stud construction grade board.

It was about $10.

Jeff cut it to size. Let’s note: Walls aren’t ever perfectly straight, so the process was annoying. There was a lot of walking the board up and down the stairs. We hung it with metal cleats. I wanted it to be floating with out and brackets showing.

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We sanded the board and filled the knots with epoxy to keep it from getting too much moisture in it and then did 2 coats of stain on it. I didn’t want to poly it and I figured, for a $10 board I’m ok with it getting water marks on it. If we need to replace it down the line in 5 years, we can trace this shelf and make a new one.

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The glass jars are from Home Goods for a steal, I liked similar ones here. They hold almost 2 containers of pods and OxyClean, so extra storage isn’t incredibly necessary. The tin vase holds our laundry bags and is from JOANN Fabric (similar).

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The frame was in a closet and is old, I pulled out an old map of Atlanta and stuck that in there with some extra wooden flowers from Michaels.

It’s just so much cleaner!