Laundry Room Makeover from Discards for Susan's Metamorphosis Monday!

Laundry rooms are usually rather uninspiring.

They are necessary and useful but exciting?  Uh uh.

When the laundry room's location in a home is in the basement, it's worse.  It makes doing a required chore even more unappealing.

Before the makeover, when it was time to do laundry, I'd haul the overflowing clothes basket down the basement stairs, flick on an overhead bare light bulb, and fill up the washing machine. Then, I wanted to get out of there as fast as I could.

When my immensely multi-talented husband helped a friend install a new kitchen, he asked if he could have the old sink and  counter top.  The answer was "absolutely."  At first, I was unenthusiastic, thinking the materials would just be more junk to add to the "someday" list but my husband surprised me.

He got right to work installing the counter top and double aluminum sinks.  First, out came the horrendously ugly limestone sink that looked like something Dracula used.  My husband added a few decorative Mexican tiles behind the faucets for a special effect.  He then picked out some overhead lights at Home Depot and put those in above the washer and drier and another set near the counter top. He even hung up a big painting we bought in Central America so I could load the machine while looking at art!

The counter top has plenty of room on which to fold laundry, sort clothes, etc.

Then came black and white tiles for the cement floor and shelving under the counter top for detergent, bleach, etc. He used lumber he already had to make the shelves.

Today, guess what?  Doing laundry isn't such a bad task to have to do. I love my laundry room and it cost so little money to do it's not even funny. So check out used materials that are going to be dumped.  Who cares if they aren't new?  Add a couple of coats of white paint, some lighting, and they are good to go!

IS YOUR LAUNDRY ROOM A PLEASANT SPOT TO WORK IN?