Laundry Room Progress

Our Laundry Room also doubles as our mudroom coming in from the Garage and it is completely visible from the dining room. So a big old messy laundry room is not an option for us . . . I should add . . .  anymore . . .  as it has been pretty darn messy for the better part of a year!

Here's what we started with:

Two super cheap uppers, no washer, no dryer and the same paint color as every single other room in our house.
Some painters tape and a couple cans of paint later we had Stripes, and that's about as far as we got. Fast forward about a year and I'm still hanging wet clothes off hooks, loosing socks, and the occasional pair of sweat pants, behind the dryer and living with cabinetry that crushes my soul (me . . . dramatic ? ? ? no way).

Lee gave the A-OK to a laundry room re-do (mostly because he was the one fishing out the rogue laundry from behind the machines), we agreed to a VERY tight budget . . . $200!!!

So first things first, we needed a counter top!!! We looked into getting a granite counter exactly the same as our kitchen granite but a $400+ quote later and we gave up on that.
So we moved to laminate countertops but the problem with that was they only come in the standard 25" deep. And we needed 32" to cover the machines.

Here's what we did, because we also had to cover the water supply and hoses we built a false back, Lee framed out 7"at the back, that gave us enough depth to cover the hoses and it gave us the extra 7" we needed to use the standard laminate counters. We used Ikea's Pragel counters in White.
The back will be removable in case we need to turn off the water supply but otherwise will stay in place!

We also had to sacrifice some storage. Almost all of Lee's shirts need to hang to dry so we NEEDED somewhere to hang wet clothes. I gave up One of the Two cabinets in exchange for a bar to hang clothes off of. We literally had them hanging off our jackets, door knobs and the ironing board. So a dedicated space for wet clothes is the most exciting part for me :)

So that's as far as we've got, we should be finished by the end of this week! Just some bead board to install, some paint touch ups new cabinet doors, some serious cabinet organizing and purging (there's still a swiffer box up there and we haven't owned a swiffer since the townhouse), some door handles, and a bar to hang clothes off of. Phew . . . Fingers crossed we stay under the $200 mark!!