The Laundry Room, Part 3

Mid-week last week, Ken told me he thought we could pick up a couple more upper cabinets for the laundry room. So on Friday, I asked about his plan for the weekend. He said that a check we'd been expecting had arrived so if I wanted to deposit it, I could go buy all four of the cabinets to finish out that part of the project. Whee! The catch was he expected me to put them together while he went over to meet with a potential renter of the Money Pit on Saturday.

Deal!

I did some housework on Saturday morning and then went to Home Depot to buy my cabinets. Saturday afternoon I watched a "Hawaii Life" marathon on HGTV while assembling cabinets. As I finished them, I put them in the laundry room, just waiting for us to mount them on the wall Sunday.

Installation required a few colorful words, a head banging into a cabinet, and moving the washer and dryer again. But when all was said and done, I was dancing around doing my happy dance. Well, in my head anyway.

 

Above the washer and dryer -- and notice the nice white water hookup box!

 

A line of white storage -- and Soleil says hello.

 

 

After taking these pictures, I went to Home Depot one more time.... to pick up caulk and a spacer for the end of the row of cabinets. I love Home Depot! After picking up what I needed, I planted myself in a main aisle for a minute until a young male employee came along and asked if I needed help. I asked if he could rip the spacer down from 3 inches to 2.5. He looked at it and said that their saw wasn't all that good at narrow things -- that they were not supposed to use it for materials less than a foot wide. But.... he'd give it a try. He carefully measured my spacer -- not just twice, but three times -- and placed it in the saw. He then got a wider scrap of wood to put in with it to help secure it in place. Mere minutes later I have a beautifully smooth cut on my spacer. I took it home and glued it in place.

 

Next up is installing the laundry since and cabinet. It should arrive this week and we'll install it on Saturday. Then, I'll caulk everything and we'll be done.... until I find something else to do in there. :-)

 

In the meantime, I did add a couple of fun things. First I replaced the oak and brass hooks with these:

 

And I also put up a sign -- fair warning to the Budget Director and any visitors:

To be fair, Ken does a lot of the laundry. The sign might be more aimed at me!

I am still organizing in the cabinets. The one directly above the sink is for all my cat grooming supplies. Yes, it takes an entire cabinet for that. Poor show cats! The ones above the washer and dryer have laundry supplies, along with some other rarely used things on the upper shelves. Those shelves are hard for me to reach -- a step stool is necessary -- so they are good for those things I can't part with, but might need later. Or might throw away the next time I go on a serious clean and purge binge. Other stuff is put away, pending me rearranging again and again and again....One cabinet is still empty, but I doubt that will last much longer.

So... from 80s ugly and very little storage to bright, beautiful and organized! What a change, don't you think?