...3.21...Friday Update...

3.21 Laundry Room Project...

...it's finally time to start on the last of the downstairs rooms...the Laundry room...

...we've been colour swatching...this is Shoji White...the same colour that's in the downstairs hallway...

...and these are left to right Spangle...Potentially Purple...Seafoam...and Rhapsody Lilac...I want to paint the room a nice soft purple...like my childhood bedroom which was a colour called "Crocus"...and I remember choosing the paint and Mom painting my room...I had just turned 10...and gotten my canopy bed for my birthday...I loved it so much...I had a purple bedspread and canopy flocked with white daisies...

...this is what the laundry room looked like when we moved in...and nothing has changed...well...except that I chiseled away the blue plastic film that covered the old-but-brand-new machines...like most things in the house they had sat unused for 20 years or so...you can see that the handles have yellowed with age...everything works fine...but we had to replace a couple of plastic parts that had deteriorated and broken...the little plastic button that tells the dryer that the door is open...that was kindof funny...when you opened the door the drum kept turning...so you had to turn the timer to the off position to take the clothes out...and sort of the same thing on the washing machine...the plastic button that stopped the agitation when the lid is opened had gotten brittle and broken as well...but there's really nothing wrong with them...they're not fancy new machines...but we're going to continue using them until they are un-reparable...

...and this is what the room looks like now...

...we put each machine onto an old quilt and just pulled them out into the hallway that leads to the kitchen...

...it's not ideal as they are in front of my cute little storage bins...but we can reach over them...and go around through the den and living room to access the bathroom and laundry room...it's only going to be for a few days...hopefully...

...everything out and ready to begin the refresh...

...we pulled up the old lineoleum...it's roughly a 6'X8' piece...so it should be big enough for someone to reuse...and we were really careful not to tear it at all...

...removing the shelves and outlet covers...

...ready to begin the final downstairs project...(well...if you don't count the garage...which will be a huge project that we'll leave until everything else is done)...

~Have a lovely day!