It all started with a grew Black Friday Deal on a new washer and dryer.
I can’t remember exactly what the numbers shook out to be but we got our new set for almost 50% off sticker price. Who pays sticker price any way!?
Once we got the new washer and dryer in place we realized that the laundry room could use some sprucing up. There wasn’t a lot of thought that went into the room when we moved in. We were on a time crunch when we moved in. We had built out house about 10 years ago. (Boy were we young!) We had to do the obligatory purchase of new appliances complete with all the decisions that come with that exciting purchase. At the time a front loading washer for home use was a fairly new concept. The price tag was more than I had wanted to pay (hmmm wonder why!?) but I knew that the cost savings in water usage would offset the price over time. Plus there was the whole environmental/use less water thing that went along with the front loader. So we settled on a front loading washer and dryer and had it scheduled to be delivered 3 days after we signed the final papers for the purchase of the house.
Enter the reason we had to spend little to no time on the design of the laundry room: We had 3 days to decide on colors and get the paint on the walls! Not a big deal to most people but I am the most indecisive person when it comes to decisions of color. (my upstairs hallway is STILL painters white after 10 years for this reason!)
I ended up convincing my husband that we NEEDED to have vertical stripes in yellow for the laundry room. Due to our time crunch we did not paint the alls white but left them the ultra thin painters coat of paint and added our yellow stripes. I wanted them to have a but more sheen and contrast so I had him use gloss paint. Looked good. I was happy. I knew that when it came time to redo the laundry room covering over those stripes was going to be a pain. Boy was I right!
Here is a shot taken from in front of the window from the photo above.
Feel better about your laundry room?
I bet you don’t have 2 portable patties in your laundry room. I do. One for the car and one for when the youngest child potty trains. I am on my third kid so I have a plan and I love a plan.
You can also see an assortment of my couponing stockpile.
See I am not as bad as I could be!
Let’s see what else we see: Home made laundry detergent, Pinterst art projects, cloth diaper covers, miscellaneous paint cans, and just general clutter.
There. That is my current laundry room. How is that for ‘airing dirty laundry’?
We cleaned out the majority of the things in the room and got to sanding. (I will NOT be showing you where all the ‘things’ went….they are all over my first floor!)
Sanding with a palm sander seemed like a good idea. Till we (know that I use ‘we’ loosely and I really mean ‘my husband’) decided that the whole room needed a skim coat of dry wall compound. This was going to even out the texture and sheen difference in the yellow and white stripes.
Then there was more sanding.
See I told you this was going to be a lot of work!
The it was time for 2 coats of primer.
Once the primer was on the wall we could still see the difference in colors and textures from the stripes! GRRRR (insert some bad words here)
But once the primer had a chance to dry over night and ‘cure’ there was minimal variation in the primer color.
ON TO COLOR!!
We chose a blue called ‘School Boy Blue’ by Valspar. Also we did the eggshell finish. As we are applying the blue we realized this was the THIRD blue room in our house. How this happened I have no idea.
Well, yes I do…we painted them…blue. Oh well. There are worse things in life than three blue rooms in one house.
Pictured above is one coat of the School Boy Blue while the paint is still wet. EEK!! Do you see what I mean about still being able to see the stripes? I snapped this photo and went to bed hoping that the blue would dry as the primer did. All one sheen. Only time was going to tell.
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