Summer Project: More Changes To The Laundry Room

A week or so ago we finally installed the curtain we've been talking about installing for months! This is the curtain that covers up the washing machine, dryer and cabinets. We also bought these awesomely colored bags to hold our recyclables (as you can see one bag needs to seriously be emptied). Another addition which was interesting to try and get a photo of being orange against an orange wall is the flexible Tubtrug (that's really its name) to hold our aluminum cans. I love how it matches so well with the orange of the walls and how it's bendable. They come in so many different shapes and sizes, I even saw online where one was used as a sandbox for kids! They'd be great for any kind of storage and for classrooms too.



Next for this room and probably the last thing that will need to be done is to cover up the disgusting linoleum that doesn't match. Since it's expendable, I'm going to attempt to paint it white and coat it with polyurethane for protection. I figure if it looks screwed up, then there's not a huge loss, but if it works like I envision it, then it will look super snazzy with the white and orange that's already there.

More admittance to being type A!

We just completed a lot of organizing and rearranging of the orange laundry room. While Julie finished up the trim work, I organized and cleaned out the drawer system in there. This really shows some serious type A personality going on, I know! What you don't see is inside the drawer labeled "Nails and Screws" (no dirty jokes) there are little plastic containers separating everything. Don't knock it till you try it now...when you make things more organized you spend way less time searching for things and more time doing things you enjoy...like organizing more stuff! It's just something you have to make time for. To me, it's totally worth it. I moved this painting from the office into the laundry room to cover up the nasty grey fuse box. Still have a few things left to do in here, but I think this corner is pretty much finished.

Things I Need To Get Done (part one)

The Laundry Room...is now ORANGE! BRIGHT, YUMMY, LICKABLE ORANGE! Hells yeah! The laundry room was perfect to do orange, so that we can partake of its goodness, but close the door so as to not make our friends sick or dizzy when they come over! ;) We're still the party palace after all! heehee!

• I've finished my part of the painting, now Julie will do all of the white trim and touch-ups (too meticulous for me).
  
• You see there's no cabinet doors on the cabinets, that's because I've got to start and finish painting those black (it won't look like Halloween, I promise...and if so...then woooooo...spooky!)
• Move all the storage cabinets, etc...back in and take the white shelf down you see---there will be two cabinets there for more covered-up storage.
• Eventually we are going to re-do the flooring (there's really yucky, NON-MATCHING, blue and white laminate right now)...probably going with tile because eventually---WAY EVENTUALLY where this window is will be a door that goes out onto a deck that leads down to the pool (the pool that isn't there yet, but will be). This is where people will go to and from the pool so the tile will be good to have wet feet on and not the hardwoods. (How ya like that planning?!)
  
• I'm also doing a painting that will be hung over the ugly grey (grey with an "e" looks artsier to me, sorry) breaker box.