Good morning! If you enjoy before and afters as much as I do, then this post is for you.
On my list of home resolutions for this year was to organize and "pretty up" my laundry room closet. I have a cute little laundry closet upstairs (sidebar: having laundry on the second floor of a home is life changing and I am forever spoiled). The closet needed a little work. Here's the before:
On my list of home resolutions for this year was to organize and "pretty up" my laundry room closet. I have a cute little laundry closet upstairs (sidebar: having laundry on the second floor of a home is life changing and I am forever spoiled). The closet needed a little work. Here's the before:
The first thing I did was pull everything out. I really like to start with a completely blank slate.
I moved my swim bag (the blue and white striped bag in the first photo) to my bedroom closet. Then I did some thinking about what I wanted to put back on the shelves. I thought it made the most sense to keep my bedroom sheets and extra towels up there. I wanted baskets to hide them and to keep them, and the closet, looking nice and neat and impossibly orderly. So I measured the shelves and figured out how big the baskets needed to be and put the measurements in my phone. I keep a small tape measure in my weekend purse because you never know when you will need it. Jamie and I were at the Christmas Tree Shops in Lancaster when we hit the outlets recently. I found these baskets there. They were the absolute perfect size (I knew this because I had my little tape measure) and they were marked $12.99, which seemed like a steal. Little did I know they were an additional 50% off. They were $6.50 each! Excuse me while I go ALL CAPS on you: THREE BIG BASKETS WERE UNDER $20 TOTAL.
The baskets are super nice too. Well made and sturdy. I paid less for all three than most other places were charging for one. Bargain! Anyway, I moved the iron to the lower shelf and bought a little glass jar from Target to hold these nifty clothespin-hooks that I use all of the time to dry my bathing suits.
I moved my swim bag (the blue and white striped bag in the first photo) to my bedroom closet. Then I did some thinking about what I wanted to put back on the shelves. I thought it made the most sense to keep my bedroom sheets and extra towels up there. I wanted baskets to hide them and to keep them, and the closet, looking nice and neat and impossibly orderly. So I measured the shelves and figured out how big the baskets needed to be and put the measurements in my phone. I keep a small tape measure in my weekend purse because you never know when you will need it. Jamie and I were at the Christmas Tree Shops in Lancaster when we hit the outlets recently. I found these baskets there. They were the absolute perfect size (I knew this because I had my little tape measure) and they were marked $12.99, which seemed like a steal. Little did I know they were an additional 50% off. They were $6.50 each! Excuse me while I go ALL CAPS on you: THREE BIG BASKETS WERE UNDER $20 TOTAL.
The baskets are super nice too. Well made and sturdy. I paid less for all three than most other places were charging for one. Bargain! Anyway, I moved the iron to the lower shelf and bought a little glass jar from Target to hold these nifty clothespin-hooks that I use all of the time to dry my bathing suits.
Here's the closet all neat and tidy! Oh, I also took the ugly stickers off the washing machine (notice the yellow sticker on the front and the red and white sticker on top are gone). That alone made a nice difference.
As for what is left, my initial plan was to paint the space a pale blue, Rainwashed (Sherwin Williams), which I have on hand. But the more I think about it, the less inclined I am do so. I think this is a good opportunity to challenge myself to do something with white walls, since I am renting after all. Most renters cannot paint, and while I think my landlord would have been cool with a soft blue laundry closet, I am going to try my hand at white. The laundry room is a drab, ugly stained off-white. So I may bust out my Sherwin Williams Alabaster and give it a fresh coat of paint. Beyond that, I am unsure. I may hang some art, I may do a stripe on the wall (that I can paint over when I leave). We will see. But for now, this space makes me happy the way it is.
See you swoon,
See you swoon,
It looks so tidy and clean.
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