My {{Beachy}} Laundry Room Reveal!!

Jen — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:32:00 +0000

My Laundry Room is finished!

I keep getting distracted with Halloween projects – LOL! Here’s what it looked like before:

Here’s a messier. more recent picture:

My Laundry Room is the darkest room in my home. It is situated right behind our garage, so it has a firewall on two sides of the room. The other wall in the room butts up against the family room and there is a bedroom above. I found out there was no way to install any natural light. The only light in the room was a flourescent light.

The first thing I did was installed Board & Batten treatment. Have you seen Shelley from House of Smith’s Bathroom? Well she inspired me to put some color in between the panels. I stenciled the walls using a wonderful stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils. If you want some tips on Board & Batten tips and how to stencil the walls — I posted about it in my Laundry Room Quick Peek post.

The cabinets were a high quality maple, but the color wasn’t quite what I had in mind, so I painted them. I tried a couple of different techniques. I also decided to paint the bottom cabinets a darker color to ground the room. I painted the walls using Mythic Paint — Aquarium Water. {{Mythic paint is a non-toxic, odor-free paint that is safe for children and pets.}}

Then I went two shades darker for the cabinet color. Here’s what I learned in painting the cabinets:

Wash the cabinets with a cleaning agent.
Take the doors and cabinet fronts off to paint.
Prime all the cabinets first.
Use a small, foam roller and a small, angled paintbrush.
Paint the cabinets with a thin coat of paint. Let dry.
Then using a fine grade sandpaper. Lightly sand. Then wipe down.
Paint all cabinets and drawer fronts 3-4 coats of paint.

Another big project in the room was making a cabinet underneath the counter for laundry baskets. And getting it in the room took a few tries – lol.

I also made some little plaques for the front of the laundry baskets with scrpabook paper, mod podge and vinyl. I hot glued them onto the front of the baskets.

I found a vintage chandelier on Craigslist for $30 from an estate in New Hampshire and had them ship it to me. I love how rusted and old it looks. And my FANTASTIC Father in law came and installed 4 recessed lights. PLUS, he put the chandelier and the recessed lights on separate dimmer switches. So now I have mood lighting in my laundry room!!!!

I installed these sparkly knobs from Rockler – they dress up the cabinets and add a little sparkle to the room.

The lockers are in an area of the room that used to be a closet. We took the doors off and drywalled the opening. Then I painted the lockers the same off-white as the top cabinets. I added a little vinyl lettering on the bottom drawers.

And I found some little frames at Michaels for .50 each. I added a little scrapbook paper behind the frames and then printed out some vinyl letters and put them on top of the glass. {I promise my children have names – they are not just numbers LOL}

I originally had a cork board in the room for school papers. I took the board, covered it with wrapping paper. Secured the paper with glue dots and then made some rolled fabric flowers to dress it up. Then I hung the bulletin board on the back of the door. This way there is still a place for papers, but they are not out in the middle of the room.

Above the sink I added a magnet board. I had this board and it started out blue. I added a few coats of glossy off-white spray paint and voila — it matches my room now. I made a rolled flowers and attached them to magnets with a few dabs of regular Gorilla Glue.

One of the newest sponsors of the DIY Club is Design Divas Vinyl Lettering:

They sent me a cute Laundry Room vinyl decal and I put it on this mirror that was in my bathroom. I spray painted it Heirloom White. I think the mirror mimics a window in the room.

Whew!! I think that is everything!!

Sorry for the long post. To wrap up — I am thrilled with my much lighter and brighter and more organized laundry room. I told my friend the other day, I need to install a comfy chair in here — it’s now my favorite room in the house!!

If you’ve made it to the end of this very long post — Thank You!!

Have a Terrific Day!!

XOXO

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Laundry Room Quick Peek

Jen — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:51:00 +0000

As you have probably seen on the blog or Twitter, I have been hard at work redoing my laundry room. It is coming along. I am almost done painting the cabinets. I just thought I would share a little quick peek on what it’s looking like so far!!

Have you ever heard of Cutting Edge Stencils? They make the coolest, big stencils. They sent me their Designer Stencil “Damask”.

For this room, I copied the same Board and Batten wall treatment that I did in myBeachy Bathroom. {**Tip — I used Gorilla Glue Wood Glue underneath the boards on the wall when I nailed them in for an extra secure fit.}

I spaced the wall panels out so that the Damask stencil would fit in the middle. And actually the wall panel is long enough that I was able to fit two stencils on each panel.

I was a little nervous about doing the stencil. I was afraid that the paint would soak underneath and there would not be a clean enough line. Cutting Edge Stencils sent me a little roller and a foam attachment and if you use these stencils you definitely want to use something like this.

I could not find any repositionable mounting spray, so I taped it up with blue painters tape. And it was just amazing!! I just rolled it over and took the stencil off and it looks great!! I used DecoArt’s Stencil Paint and mixed a little Americana green craft paint in so I could get a bluish-green color to match the Mythic Paint on the walls. The color is called Aquarium Water. If you don’t like paint fumes, you should check out Mythic Paint. It has no fumes and is non-toxic so if you have small children or pets it’s a great product to use! And — I couldn’t smell the paint at all!!

It took me awhile to figure out how dark I wanted the paint to look and by the time I got to the end I had it perfect. So I would recommend playing with the stencil on a big piece of paper or cardboard first to really see how the paint color looks and the effect that you want to achieve.

I am painting the upper cabinets a really pretty off white {actually it matches Heirloom White perfectly}, but the lower cabinets I painted a greenish-blue and LOVE it! Then I installed these sparkly knobs from Rockler!!! SQUEAL — Aren’t they pretty? And they look very expensive, but are actually very affordable.

I still need to install the lighting. I found a vintage chandelier from New Hampshire on Craigslist and had them ship it to me. I LOVE it! And — it was $30!!! So excited! And just in case you want to see a messy “before” picture, here it is….

{It really needed a makeover!!!}

Sorry about the picture color — I am still dealing with a FLUORESCENT Light – and no natural light.

I hope to have the whole thing done this weekend!!
**Final Reveal coming up soon **

Some other elements of the room that I will reveal are:

Painting the Locker Cubby {which used to be a closet}
Made a built-in shelving unit to keep the laundry baskets for each child.
Of course, painting all of the cabinets {takes a LONG time!}
Installing more recessed lights {there are no windows — ugh}

So there’s my update! More coming up soon!

Have a Super Night!

XOXO

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