To start from the beginning, the walls were a depressing gray and the room was basically a closet and two laundry machines. I started with the idea of some fun, whimsical wallpaper. I was obsessed with this sample on the wall:
But there was one small problem and that is my knack for picking expensive things. THEY FIND ME. Jason went along with it for awhile (see statement above) but once the installer quoted $400 and we did the math on the actual wallpaper cost (over $1,200, who could have known?) well it was astronomical for a room that is 8x12 and basically a reservoir for dirty clothes. Even I couldn't justify paying that.
So then I was all fiiiiiiiine, I'll just paint (bahahaha, meaning I'll pick the color, Jason will paint). While I was noodling on that, Jason started to build out the shelves/laundry machine "housing".
The laundry room is small and hard to get decent pictures of. This is the view from the hallway:
Anyway, Jason added crown moulding and after I settled on a color (Pink Bliss/Benjamin Moore), he painted.
Then. THEN. Came these. They were just what I needed to turn this space into something special. The decals came on giant sheets, I had to cut them out and spent a lot of time grouping them on the wall, moving the clusters around, etc. so the overall pattern was balanced.
Let's pause for a moment of appreciation because I'm super proud of how this came out lol. All the little sprigs and leaves had to be arranged not only so they looked good, but in reverse order of how they were going to be peeled and applied so that the layering looked right. Plus I did the whole thing not actually knowing the full color of the decals under their white paper.
The boys helped me peel once I was 100% sure of the placements (there was no rearranging these - once they were stuck that was it):
(This was last June, by the way, hence the bathing suits. That's how behind I am!)
Anyway, final wall!
It looks painted in person and I totally love it.
Ok what else. We swapped out the light fixture,
Hung a drying rack:
Let's pause for a moment of appreciation because I'm super proud of how this came out lol. All the little sprigs and leaves had to be arranged not only so they looked good, but in reverse order of how they were going to be peeled and applied so that the layering looked right. Plus I did the whole thing not actually knowing the full color of the decals under their white paper.
So- before:
After:
(This was last June, by the way, hence the bathing suits. That's how behind I am!)
Anyway, final wall!
It looks painted in person and I totally love it.
Ok what else. We swapped out the light fixture,
Hung a drying rack:
And I made a wreath out of clothespins. Yep I did. Like almost 200 of them, that I spraypainted and then glued sparkly paper on top of. Briefly, the process:
That's it! A couple before and afters:
(Used canvas to simulate countertop)
And just some afters. As I said this is a hard space to photograph because it's small!
To completely geek out over this, my dryer sheets are in the pink box and my stain soap is in that octopus thing. Decorative objects can be functional.
Alright well...off to
Wash...dry...fold...repeat!
