More Future Planning

More project planning today!

Much like our powder room that I posted about here, my laundry room hasn't had any type of update since I painted the walls the same shade of blue I painted the guest bathroom was when we rented the house. Also much like the powder room, the laundry room is SMALL. It holds exactly the washer, dryer, and a cat box for the length of the room.  There's also a door to the garage.  That's it! Lately, I seem to have laundry room envy for people who have these bright, airy, spacious laundry rooms with a sink, storage, and natural lighting. Ours is a windowless room stuffed between the garage on the one side and stairs on the other. I "suggested" putting in a cute round, porthole style window, since the back wall is the side of the house, but The Builder just laughed and promptly said no. 

Here were the updates I made back then:

I never got my Tiffany blue paint.  I do have the Ikea countertop and container for the liquid laundry detergent soap. There was one for fabric softener as well, but it got broken. I still have my Breakfast At Tiffany's artwork in there, but I'd like to move it up to new office space this summer. Also, I no longer have the white Whirlpool machines. They died within a week of each other!  Now I have this pretty red set from LG:

This room is more challenging than I want it to be. I need to add some storage. Despite having two adult kids and two teenagers, they somehow manage to spill detergent all over the room. We currently have the Ikea counter above my machines as a folding table. We foolishly cut it down to fit just the top of the machines.  The kids pile it high with clean laundry as they pull it from the dryer which then spills all over the floor next to the cat box. I don't think I need to continue. I realize no amount of storage will accommodate these issues. But I would like a better option to store cleaning supplies, the iron, extra detergent (you don't want to know how much laundry detergent and fabric softener we go through in a month!!) and have a little more room to fold the laundry.

So I'm going back to the drawing board!  Stay tuned...