Pinterest Inspired Laundry Room

Anyone that is facebook friends with me knows that I've recently become obsessed with www.pinterest.com . I could spend hours browsing recipes, hairstyles, DIY projects, and other inspirational ideas. This fall break, I decided I would use some of my renewed interest in crafting and organizing to spruce up the laundry room. It's been somewhat of a disaster for several months now, and I always knew it had potential. I obviously didn't want to spend a ton of money, so I tried to fix up items that we already had. I will highlight some of the changes I made, but unfortunately I forgot to take before shots of most of them.

The first unsightly part of the laundry room was the water heater and all the copper piping leading from the top of it to the ceiling. I decided to bring down a room divider that we had up in our bedroom. I'm not really sure why I ever bought it, I never really needed to divide a room, but we had it and I knew I could make it work! I painted it white and put fabric on the back side so you couldn't see through the top section, and set it up in front of the water heater and voila! Above it you will see a $2.00 goodwill frame that I painted white and also added fabric to, and hung from the ceiling to hide the copper pipes. I wish I had a before picture, because it really does look so much better!

Up next was the ironing board. I basically just used the same fabric, recovered it and made a "curtain" to hang in front of it. The purpose of the curtain was to hide the litterbox and extra litter. Here's how it turned out:





Next, I had a three part hamper that I really liked, it was just ugly and in no way matched my new bright color scheme! More new fabric and my favorite tool, my glue gun, and it was covered. I made a lid with some more fabric, cardboard, and of course my glue gun. I love how this turned out! Before:

After:

I also added a shelf with some cheapo wal mart baskets above the hamper to keep random items that otherwise had no designated place in the room.

Now I just need my dad to finish framing the door and that's it, new, cheery laundry room! I only spend $19 on the fabric, $20 on the 5x7 rug, and about $15 for the shelf and baskets. Next up, is the office, which has now become the "catch-all" room.

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