Laundry Room

Our laundry room used to be lacking in about every aspect - color, function, storage and organization.

It was just a blank slate... but it's actually a decent sized blank slate.  It's fairly deep so once you get the washer and dryer in you still have lots of room to take advantage of.  But that shelving up there was no doing it.  Not only does it limit how much goes up, but everyone gets to see it, too.  Not going to work.  So I added the same color I put in the bathroom I painted already, slapped some organization to the walls and voila! - a room you'd actually want to spend some time in.  (Sorry the pictures are a bit blurry - I'm not sure why they are).

The organization pegboard that Matt and his Dad made for me one weekend.  It's actually pretty easy to do and makes things look a lot nicer.  Here's the post for instructions.  I basically did everything she did, but you can modify it to fit your space pretty easily.

Just some decorations on the shelf.  The yellow ceramic carton is actually useful - I put loose change and things I find in pockets in it.  The owl is also a vase, but he's just there to look pretty.

The hanging thing on the left is a drying rack.  We air-dry certain things fairly often so it's nice to have a place to do it instead of just draped on random chairs in the kitchen.  The sign on the right I found at Kirklands last night and it basically sums up my attitude about laundry - "Sort tomorrow, Wash later, Dry someday, Fold maybe, Iron never".  

And here is the whole she-bang.  This room is done.