Oh, how I’d love to have a nice, big laundry room with a window (mine’s a laundry closet).
Susan knew that her basic white laundry room had potential to be a cheerier space to work in, so she added some fun color with paint and wallpaper, and here’s how it looks now…
Susan’s Laundry Room Makeover
I said, “Wow!” out loud when I saw its new look. Love it!
Susan says, “Those upper cabinets just smacked you in your face when you walked in and made the room feel claustrophobic. So we removed them, and I can’t tell you what a difference this made.”
“The Dash & Albert rug was the jumping off point, but the Amy Butler wallpaper brought it home for me! The cabinets I painted with a custom mix of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint (50/50 Provence & Florence).”
She says she wanted the laundry room to be a pretty space because this is the room that greets you at the top of the stairs: “It has a window to the backyard that lets in a ton of light into the hall so this door stays open pretty much all of the time. So here is my view now… and I kid you not, I smile every time I walk up the stairs and see it!”
“We replaced the ‘boob lights,’ of course. This one is so cool, it’s made from a vintage can. I picked it up at Shades of Light.”
“We also replaced the sink and faucet with a new stainless steel sink and chrome faucet. The old ones were pretty beat up.”
After:
Thanks to Susan for sharing her laundry room makeover with us.
Visit her blog Uniquely Yours or Mine for more photos and information.
Beautiful job! (I would even take the old laundry room though. If you have
to do laundry in the basement that would be a hugh improvement! 🙂
So true. I had a basement laundry at my last house and am grateful to just have a laundry closet upstairs in this one so I don’t have to schlep my baskets up and down the stairs. An actual upstairs laundry room like this with a window would be a dream! 🙂
This picture did it. I see absolutely no reason why I can’t paint my laundry room cabinets. Thanks for the inspiration.
Go for it, Michelline! Seems like a laundry room is one of those spaces you could really experiment and have fun in.
That is my dream laundry room! I love the drying racks on the wall.
Wow, thanks so much for sharing my laundry room makeover with your readers! It’s still one of my favorite updates I’ve doen so far!
I love how it turned out, Susan. So pretty! 🙂
Susan, could you share where you got the “washing instruction” framed piece? I could so use that in my space. What a gorgeous space you have!
That is the prettiest, happiest laundry room I’ve ever seen, I love it!
I used to have a laundry room that had been the old service porch off my kitchen. When we remodeled our kitchen, we knocked down walls and opened everything up and I lost my laundry room. Now the washer and dryer are stacked in a closet. Sometimes, I miss my laundry ROOM.
Terrific! Would love a laundry room. This one is a real inspiration. Had to laugh at ‘boob’ lights. Never heard that term but I know what she’s talking about. I had a couple of those at my last house, which replaced some earlier mushroom lights. Funny, but descriptive, names for light fixtures.
Wow! I love it!! I’m so JEALOUS! I think the cabinetry colour, light and fabulous wallpaper are so lovely. I would have happily taken her “old” laundry room (I have a closet on the main floor). Susan’s vision is inspiring. Who says a laundry room has to be utilitarian? She’s made it such a pretty space! Thank you for sharing.
Wow is right! I love this – the wallpaper, the cabinets, the marble counter, the planking (?) on the rest of the walls. A laundry room is the place to experiment and go a little wild. I do laundry in the “utility room”,which is the dingiest, most depressing room in the house, full of piles of my husband’s work clothes and tools, the boiler, the electrical panel, and no walls or ceiling (torn out years ago in our old house to do wiring that’s not quite finished yet). The upside is that he’s very handy and does do this work, and the room is nice and warm in the winter with the boiler in there. If I had a room like Susan’s though, I think I’d find excuses to do laundry!
I have never seen a french country laundry before. How elegant! Love the wallpaper and color scheme!
What an inspiring use of color. It makes me too want to get a paint brush out and brighten up the laundry room — though I found that paper didn’t last long due to the steam/heat from the washer/dryer. The marble gives me counter envy…. I look forward to the day I can replace the laminate on my setup.
I read on her blog that it’s actually faux-marble laminate! Can you believe that? It looks great but cost a lot less.
Oh wow! I had heard the new marble-look laminates looked great, but with this edge treatment it looks even better.
Wow. So, so pretty!
As someone who does laundry in her unfinished basement, this laundry room is all sorts of heaven!
And seriously, what is it with builders and boob lights? Can’t we get something better?!
Absolutely adorable! Very creative redesign for a small and awkward room. Every inch of space is utilized to the max! She did a lovely job.
Love the color and wallpaper. Didn’t realize at first she got rid of the uppers; I was begging for uppers in my laundry room for extra storage, but to each their own. The wallpaper is charming.
Wow. I love the colors. What a fantastic laundry room.
It’s very whimsical. Had to be really fun to do. My washer and dryer are in our garage! Hahahaahaha………….