Fabulous Laundry Room Makeover with easy DIY ideas

Help me Rhonda! Help, help ME!!!!! I need a laundry room makeover!

It’s a mess. I completely dislike this place and LOATH having to spend time in here. I am trying really hard to NOT use the word hate….but I hate wire shelves.

They are all over my house because that’s what builders use. Replacing them is expensive and I’ve never had the inclination to change over. But now I do!!!!

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Now I want my home to look like I care about it. I want to have function and purpose and NOT HATE it!!!! Not too much to ask, or is it?

I feel lucky to have a laundry ROOM. Our old house had a laundry closet. Nothing to do there. It was in a hallway and the washer and dryer were shoved in like a pack of sardines. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Now that I have a room, it seems to be a giant closet. What flippin sense does that make? It’s the room right off the garage so I could easily make it a mud room as well as launder the clothing there. Hmmmm……

I don’t want to stack the washer and dryer. And honestly, I like the idea of having a sink close by. We bought an utility sink BUT never hooked it up. Par for the course…but…we are changing our ways! So let’s tackle a laundry room makeover.

Appliances

The washer and dryer are new so we are happy there. We bought the drawers for underneath them so I didn’t have to bend so far to switch a load…bad back you know. But I’m not currently using them to their full potential…will get to that later.

The wire shelves are another bone of contention….how could we replace them without breaking the bank?

Easy…we make our own. HAHAHA…not always cheaper alternative but in this case it is.

I found this idea on Pinterest and immediately thought it was perfect!!!

In general, I’m not the industrial or farmhouse kinda girl, but these….these make me happy. I explain how we did the shelf here. But let’s continue with our laundry room makeover….

Remove the mess

I removed everything from the laundry room! Holy cannoli!!!

I don’t even know what to say! But it’s clear that this room needed a redo in a BAD way!!!

Redesign

Remove the wire shelf!!!! It was like a 1 ton gorilla getting off my back!

Be gone!!!

This hardware was a pain in my butt!! I tried hand twisting with a screwdriver, using a drill, and they didn’t move. I was getting so frustrated, I went for a hammer. When I pried the first one out….I was a little scared that I ruined the wall. But a phone call to my handy hubby made me feel better and I kept going! It was so invigorating to remove that shelf!!!!

I spackled the holes, waited for them to dry and sanded it down. It wasn’t perfect, but I knew the new shelf would cover most of this up.

Next, I painted. The color I chose was solely for cheap reasons. It was the leftover paint from the girls room makeover. I used this color on the bookshelves. I wasn’t going to use it on anything else and I couldn’t justify spending a lot of money on a laundry room make over.

The girls helped me paint…no one stepped in paint but someone did get paint in their hair. It was too small of a room to have 3 painters and one of those painters is also a dancer.

The new light went up thanks to Kris being super handy!

My next task was the shelf. I was still so torn about length and width. I decided I needed to just go put my eyes on this wood. We went to Home Depot and found the perfect piece of pine.

While we were at Home Depot, I decided to grab the rest of the pieces for my shelf. I need to grab a stain and the hardware for the shelf. Want to learn more about the shelf? I show you in this post.

Here is how it looks now –

Now the shelf is up and Chuck E.’s in love!

Back to the organizing part. (It’s my favorite part.)

PURGE!

I literally had 4 bottles of toilet bowl cleaner. Do you know what this tells me? I found a really great sale (several times) and then forgot I had the ones at home. No one needs that much on hand….not even the shittiest people. 😂😂😂.

I had Borax that was one giant clump still in it’s box…what good is that going to do?!? NONE. Trash it!

Home-use dry cleaning kit…NOPE, I’m a grown-up now, I take things to the dry cleaner (or don’t buy the clothing because I don’t want to bother).

I also wasn’t using my pedestals to their full potential. They don’t fit tall bottles so the laundry detergent wasn’t going to go there. However, other things could and I needed to make use of the space.

So I pulled out the grossness, vacuumed and wiped out the pedestals, then proceeded to put less used things in there.

Cleaning stuff on the right and laundry stuff on the left. There is some more room in the left one…I’m sure I’ll find something to put in there.

Clean

Oh lord, it was a mess. Dust and fallen socks behind the machines. Gross doors and trim. Grimy little fingers and dogs noses sure do create a giant mess.

I sprayed the doors with Mrs. Meyers and ended up using a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to get rid of the scuffs.

Rather than pushing the dust around and creating more of a mess, I pulled out the shop vac. Game changer! I was able to get behind the machines with ease.

The baseboards needed a scrub too but I’m old and I can’t be doing all that. So I put the kid(s) to work!!! She only agreed to allow this picture on the blog for a small fee.

I’m sure I should mop and clean the grout…but I don’t really feel like doing that ever today.

Organize

I mentioned needing a mud room. But it just isn’t big enough for everything I wanted. So I had to improvise….

What I absolutely have to have – Storage for book bags – right now the kids throw their bags on the back of the kitchen table chairs. Well, the bags are heavy and they tip the chairs over.

I found this cute wall hook from Home Depot. I ordered it online and picked it up in my store – shipping was free!!!

Handy man, Kris, installed the hooks and the girls tried it out with their heavy bags.

I’ve been collecting wall art over time. I see something that strikes me, and if it is a reasonable price, I buy it. I have 2 discount “pottery” stores close to me so I can find cute little things for less than average prices.

While Kris and I were looking for more storage options, we came across this sign that my friend, Kate, made us and we agreed that it would be perfect in here.

Two reasons – colors worked well together AND most people enter our house through this room.

We have already talked about adding another shelf and changing out the laundry dispensers BUT we didn’t want to hold off on finishing the room because of those things.

It feels so good to have this room done. I’ve been planning it since April. It makes me want to do another one….

Have you tackled a laundry room makeover? How did it go? Any paint in your hair? DIY accessories? Share with us!!!

Happy Decorating,