One Room Challenge - Laundry Room Redo - Week Four

Welcome to Week Four of the One Room Challenge.  In case you haven't heard, due to all of the terrible natural disasters of late, Linda has graciously extended the deadline of the ORC by a week.  I am so thankful that she did so, and I am sure others are also.

Week Four is a tough one.  It's really crunch time and you have to start making go or no-go decisions.  Doesn't that sound totally dramatic and earthshattering?  So it goes with the ORC - it can be all-consuming - but SO worth it in the end. 

This week has been all about the paint.  We decided on Behr Ocean Abyss for the trim and cabinets.  We used oil-based paint on the cabinets and latex on the trim.

To remind you how the laundry room looked before, complete with sheetrock repair circa 2005

After lots of prep work, we were ready to paint.  And paint.  And paint.  Three coats on the trim and two on the cabinets later

 

Y'all, I cannot tell you how much I love this color and how amazing it looks in here.  I mean, it's a hot mess right now, but I can see how it will be in the future and it makes me want to squeal.  I was SO worried about the cabinets looking super country with that arch, but they look chic painted.  And, bonus, I think that Mama is loving the painted cabinets.  She even started talking colors "if" we were to paint her kitchen cabinets, something she would not even consider in years past.  That is huge, let me tell you, true progress.  Or it could have just been the Moscow mules we drank. 

Until next week, folks.  Be sure to visit all of the One Room Challenge Featured Designers and the other ORC Guest Participants. 

Thanks,
Kimber

One Room Challenge - Laundry Room Redo - Week Three

I shuddered when I typed that 3 in the title, I'm not going to lie.  How can it already be Week Three and I have not painted a. single. thing.?  How is that possible?  How will I finish?  Will it look great or will it look like my kitchen that time that I painted it tan without really understanding paint undertones and my entire kitchen looked like vomit?  These are the questions I ask myself as I lie in bed sleepless every evening.  

Where are my manners?  Welcome to Week Three of the One Room Challenge, a wonderful event hosted by Linda from Calling it Home where Featured Designers are invited to completely redo a room in six weeks.  Linda is kind enough to allow Guest Participants join in the fun as well, which I have chosen to do.  A wise choice?  That is still undecided.  

For this ORC, I have strong-armed encouraged my mama to say goodbye to her dated laundry room and join us in the year 2017.  

Last week I showed you the various wallpapers that we were considering for the space.  I got a sample of Thibaut Tanzania and Brunschwig & Fils Les Touches.  Both are spectacular, but the Les Touches is 5x the cost of the Tanzania, and since we need 9 double rolls, we went with it.  Let's be real here - we will end up spending that money somewhere...let's just call it budget redistribution.

Speaking of budget, have you shopped for cabinet hardware lately?  There are SO MANY amazing options which I shared with Mama, confident that she would love them too.  And love them she did, until she counted how many she will need (26) and did stupid math and realized the money she would save from the wallpaper would be spent on handles.  For the laundry room.  She quickly told me that I needed to find something within the $3.00 range and to check the big box stores.  I laughed out loud then told her that we wouldn't find anything decent for less than $6 - even at the retail giants.  Then I may have told her, "Welcome to the 90's, Mr. Banks."  If you get that reference, you're my people.  After some skillful negotiating on my part, I got the budget increased to $7.69 (rando) and quickly fell in love with this one.

Classical Revival Drawer Pull

And equally as quickly realized that it does not come in the size we need, so I was back to searching. And let's be honest, my eyes were crossing from looking at 1,293 handles in my budget, like these -

www.myknobs.com

Woof.  No offense if you have those and love them, they just aren't the look I am going for.  I was not about to give up, I would persevere!  I expanded my search and came across these lucite and brass pulls, which Mama loved.  I ordered them very quickly before she could change her mind.  What of the budget, you ask?  I was $12.00 over (shipping).  Boom. 

Lucite Handles

Now that we have selected a wallpaper, we can finally get around to choosing a paint color.  We have it narrowed down to Ocean Abyss or Walk Me Home, both by Behr.

Ocean Abyss

Walk Me Home

They're pretty great, yes?  I am leaning toward the bolder Ocean Abyss, but will wait until I have samples in the room before deciding.  See how I have matured?  No more vomit-colored walls for me. 

Please be sure to come back next week to see which color we chose - and if we have paint on the cabinets yet.  In the meantime, be sure to check out the Featured Designers and the other Guest Participants.  Also, you can see my other ORC rooms - bedroom, bathroom, laundry room.  Have a great week!

Kimber

One Room Challenge - Laundry Room Redo - Week Two

Hello and welcome to the second week of the One Room Challenge.  If you're new here, thank you for joining me as I attempt to redo my mama's laundry room.  Last week, I showed the space, including the sheetrock repair from damage sustained by Hurricane Katrina.  Speaking of hurricanes, Nate paid us a visit...and let me just say, he is kind of a jerk.

 

 



Thankfully, we did not sustain devastating losses like others have this hurricane season.  God bless everyone that has.

When not preparing for the storm, seriously everything can be considered a projectile in 100mph winds, I have been trying to prepare for some laundry room goodness.  My Mama and Daddy retired last year and have spent the past few months traveling, so all of our design decisions have been made remote (which doesn't hurt my feelings since I may have a few surprises up my sleeve).

The design plan started with this gorgeous Designers Guild fabric.




Designers Guild Chinoiserie Garden

It's a gorgeous, vibrant fabric with watercolor florals and chinoiserie details.  What's not to love, right?  We originally planned on painting the walls white and the cabinets and trim a dark teal, like this:



But it feels kind of flat, yes?  I need something besides the fabric that unifies the space.  The logical answer was wallpaper.  Which leads me to these three options.  I am waiting on two more samples and will then make my final decision.  I have a favorite, but I am not telling yet.

 

 

 

Finalizing the paint depends on the wallpaper selected, so we are at a bit of a standstill; however, we are making other buying decisions and I feel fairly confident that we are in a good place (said every ORC'er ever during Week Two).  I may be singing a different song next week.  Until then, please be sure to check out the Featured ORC Designers and also all of the Guest Designers.  And, thank you so much to Linda from Calling it Home for creating this wonderful event. 



One Room Challenge - Laundry Room Redo - Week One

Hello and Welcome!  If you are new around here, my name is Kimber - I'm a southern gal from Mobile, Alabama and I love football, colorful interiors, and my dogs.  My kids are pretty great too.

I am excited, and a bit petrified, to be participating in Linda's One Room Challenge as a Guest Participant.  This will be my fourth (!!!) ORC, but the first where I am not doing a room in my own home.  You can see my bedroom makeover here, my laundry room makeover here, and my master bathroom makeover here.

For this ORC, I have decided to force help my mama makeover her laundry room.  She is blessed to have a laundry room that is really large, has lots of light, new floors, granite counters, and a utility sink.  What's there to makeover, right?  Oh, just you wait.

My parents built their home in 2000 and the laundry room has not been touched since then.

Mauve paint (because Mama's cullahs were Blush and Bashful)?  Check. 

Oak cabinets?  Check.

See that pig in the upper left corner?  I made that when I was in HS - 22 years ago.

Itty bitty cabinets above the washer and dryer that serve absolutely no purpose but my mama is bound and determined to keep?  Check.
 

Hurricane Katrina damage?  Check.  Wait, what?  Yes, as in that Hurricane Katrina - the one that hit in August of 2005!

As you can see, there's a lot of work to do.  And no, that bright green paint will not be staying.  Here's the plan, so far:

• Paint cabinets, walls, ceiling, trim, and anything else I see fit
• Replace pulls
• Replace light fixture
• Replace clothes hanging bar
• Sneak and remove the cabinets above the washer and dryer
• Upholster sewing chair
• Make window treatments
• Find a fabulous rug
• Convince Mama to spend big $$$ on wallpaper
• All the other pretty things I'm sure I am forgetting

 Be sure to come back next week to see what I have up my sleeve.  Also, please be sure to support all of the ORC Featured Designers and ORC Guest Participants at Calling it Home.

Thank you,
Kimber