Laundry room "mostly" finished

Yea! I love my new laundry room. Well I guess I shouldn't say new, it's just kind of a makeover. You remember I got a new washer and dryer and painted the room. Well I have just been putting the finishing touches in there now.

There is a picture of those beauties. I have really loved them, but, you do have to remember I was using 20 year old ones before.Here is my new sink and tile counter my hubster did for me. And, look there above the sink, I needed some place to hang things to dry so hubster did that for me too. Gotta love it.Then for the "Mudroom side" of the room. I got this fabric at JoAnn's. I covered the bench with some quilt batting and then stapled the fabric on top and trimmed with a board around the edge.
Then I made a little curtain to hide some things under my fold-out table. I can hide alot of stuff back there.The baskets on the shelf above the bench holds hats, gloves and scarves.
This little cabinet hides the fold out ironing board I made from one that hangs over a door.I don't know about you but we have winter here. I always have wet gloves and hats when the family comes in from the cold. I bought this shelf thingy from Walmart years ago and it works so well to dry and warm up the hats and gloves. Just place it over a heating vent. Everyone puts their wet items on a shelf and the heat blows up through the vent and dries all three shelves of gloves and hats. It works great. In the summer I just put it away under the fold-out table, behind the curtain.
In most of the pics you can see I got a new rug also. I ordered it from Overstock.com. I got one that almost covers the whole floor this time. I am tired of wet boots making a puddle of muddy water on my tile. Hopefully this will help.
If you would like to see what the room looked like before you can go to my laundry room show and tell post.

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Shelf in the laundry room

First I have to say "I AM IN LOVE"....with my new washer and dryer. You know after using the same one for 23 years, you just don't realize what you're missing.
I got busy on the shelf over the pegs in laundry/mudroom. I bought a 1x8x6 board at Lowe's.
The shelf will need to make a 90 degree turn, so I cut the pieces to fit.
On each end I cut off the corners so there wouldn't be a sharp edge sticking out.
These triangle pieces turned out to be perfect for the shelf brackets. I drew out the design of the shelf bracket.
Cut it out with the scroll saw.
I needed three so I found another scrap piece to cut the last one out of. I drilled holes in them to fit the screw into.
Here are the brackets in place.
I put the wood plugs in the holes and painted them white. Here they are finished.

I think I better run back to JoAnn's and see if they still have those cute baskets. I need one more, don't you think?

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Laundry room show & tell

A few weeks ago I did a post on laundry organizing. I had some people ask me some questions about my laundry room. So even though I am thinking of redoing my laundry in the near future, I thought I would show you the things that really work in there.
A few years back I realized there was a huge problem with shoes in my laundry/mudroom. Everyone came in that door (off the garage) and kicked off shoes until there was a huge mountain of shoes and it became difficult to get in the door.
I found a solution that I have loved ever since. I bought some MDF board and went to work. Since there are five people in our family I made 5 shoe slots, spots, or bins whatever you want to call them.
I put a board on the top for a bench to sit and put shoes on or take them off. Above I put the coat hangers. This has really worked. Everyone has their own slot and just kicks their shoes off into their slot. I put some batting and material on the top of the bench and just hot glued the ruffle on to finish it off. I then needed a place to craft and also to fold clothes. So I built this folding table that flips back when not in use. It is attached to the bench and the wall.
Here it is folded out.
I use this to fold clothes, crafts, and scrapbooking. I just put a 1x2 board on the wall to hold the table up when it is folded out, like this.
Underneath the table I keep all my scrapbooking supplies.
I also needed a place for the ironing board. I don't iron very much, actually very little. I hate to have to drag a big ironing board out somewhere and then put it back whenever I use it. So I bought one of those ironing boards that are suppose to hang on the back of your door. You know what I mean, right? Looks like this.
I built a box around it and hung it on the wall. Now I have one of those great built in ironing boards that cost alot but mine was cheap. I know the blue pad doesn't match but it really doesn't matter because it is never out. Ha!
I put a door made from 1/2 inch thick MDF board and painted it the color of the wall so it doesn't stand out.
So I hope that answered some questions. These things have really been useful in there and were not hard to do. I am wanting to maybe paint in there and do a little update. I really hate the cabinets in there and hope to do a makeover on the doors soon. Until then I guess I will go do some laundry. UGH!

Laundry organizing

I built many of these "boxes" back in my "building days".
I sold quite a few as magazine holders or totes for crafting supplies.
I have used this one for many things, but lately I have used it in the laundry room to hold supplies. I didn't like the fact that I had painted it green for another use and now I needed it to be red. So I painted it red...
Sanded the edges...
When I sanded, the green color from underneath came through. Loved that. Then I took an old sock and Special Walnut stain and rubbed it on the whole thing. I like how the stain just antiques it a little.
Here you can see how the green is coming through...
Here it is in the corner of my laundry room where I fold clothes and do craft projects.
It is nice to have everything organized and where you need it, when you need it.
I think I would like to get a vinyl to put on the side of it that says "laundry" or "supplies" or something. What do you think?