Laundry room makeover...

About a week ago I was in our laundry/mud room and noticed how cluttered and dark it looked.  I wish I had taken some "before" pictures but I didn't think about it.  The walls were a taupe color, and I had a tan valence on the door and café curtains on the window.  It was not a very cheerful space!

 

The weather is very dreary this weekend, so the pictures don't really do it justice on how bright and cheerful it really is. (Marc is replacing the outlets and switches today!  I think he has just about finished changing the whole house out  to white!)

Almost our entire house is repose gray now!  It is such a clean, peaceful color!  Another project we have been working on over the past year is getting rid of ALL of these ugly popcorn ceilings!  We have smooth ceilings in most of the house but we have done these ceilings in part of the house, and I love them!  Marc is planning to do that in this room soon!

I replaced the tan curtains with this light airy valence I found for $10!  Much better! :)

I couldn't get this picture to rotate, but I can't decide if I want to paint these cabinets or not. I'm leaning towards leaving them .

I like that I can look out the window and see the horse pasture now.

A closeup of the valence.  I am leaving the door window open. I'm not sure why I ever thought it needed a curtain. :)

I wish I had a before picture of this wall.  It had a terrible, bulky plastic thing on the wall that we had our reusable shopping bags, broom and "Sh-mop" (if you have wood floors you need one of those!)  hanging on it.  It was functional but very unappealing to look at every day.  We go in and out of this room all day, and it is the entry door that most people come in.  I really don't want to look at all of that junk.  I put the bags in the back of my van and tucked the broom and mop in the corner behind the freezer.

My mom bought me this freezer for Christmas 16 years ago, and we have never had a repair on it!  We have another chest freezer and a second refrigerator in our well house.  I have decided to sell the old fridge, move this freezer outside with the other one, and Marc told me I can get a new refrigerator for this space.  I can't buy a weeks worth of groceries at a time because I don't have enough room. (We go through a TON of fresh produce in a week!) We also have lots of fresh goats milk most of the year, and that takes up space too.  When you have a large family, and you eat most of your meals at home you go through a lot of food! :)  It isn't convenient to put our extra groceries outside, so I think having the extra fridge inside will be handy!  Mariah spent yesterday scrubbing the old fridge out to list and sell!

All of the cute little laundry signs came from Hobby Lobby. :)

 

Well, that was my weekend project!

~Until next time....