The Duck is just all studs and insulation and no ceilings and unfinished floors. it is rather depressing at times. So, i decided to pretty up something....anything. the laundry room was the logical choice....it was the smallest room. yes...there is no washer and dryer in there...yet; yes, there is no tile on the floor...yet; yes, there is no baseboards or trim where the ceilings meet the wall....yet; and, yes, the corrugated tin that i plan on using on the walls is not up, either...yet. but, damn it...it looks almost normal.
I painted the ceiling something called Rich Caramel....sort of a yellowy brown. and the walls are a Burst of Orange. you won't be bored doing laundry. baseboard and window trim will be chocolate brown.
I found this cool piece of furniture made from old barn wood in a local antiques store. it's been sitting in the Duck's garage for months. my sis helped me haul it into the house....no easy feat.
Don't know what i will do with the bottom. maybe some square baskets to hold something. or just some quilts under there.
Here is a small quilt that i found .... for a buck at Goodwill.... to hang behind the glass in the top of it.
The top of it has a flower box that i will put greenery in. the piece on the wall above it was on sale for half price at Pottery Barn.
Notice the little candle holders on the sides? i found those cute orange candles at the local Salvation Army in Centralia.
And these two orange glass containers with brass lids came from the same antique store that the barnwood furniture came from. i paid $15 for the 2 of them....pretty expensive for me...but they seemed perfect for the room and i liked them. the larger one has clothespins in it, the other will hold those little bars of soaps that you find in hotels....just need to accumulate more of those or find some in a thrift store. hahahaha
The set of brown glass jars were an auction find....$4.50. of course, i dropped the lid of one of the large ones and broke it....so that one will be a flower vase. the the green runner on the piece also came from the thrift store....$1.29...someone knitted it.
I have this huge basket on the floor...not sure what it will hold yet. it might even live somewhere else in the house. gotta think on it.
On the wall above where the washer and dryer are going....i strung some burlap string...clothesline style. i found these 'wallie' laundry items...in a thrift store, naturally. the wallpaper paste doesn't really stick much anymore so i am going to clip them to the string with cute tiny colored clothespins that i found at Hobby Lobby. along with the quilt and the apron, there is a shirt and some socks. will finish hanging those next time. there are 26 pieces and will go all across the wall. the apron is about 5" tall.
This is the wall you see when you walk in the door. i found this old wooden ironing board ...antique store...$7.50....and mounted it on the wall. i will use it as a bulletin board and tack laundry coupons and ads and laundry related items to it. metal Tumbleweeds Hotel sign up in the corner. i plan to add more metal signs as i find them.
My sister spotted a gift bag at the Salvation Army that had these tiny baby clothes on it so i got it and cut them out and put them on the board. more things to come as i find them.
My sis also found the little girl with her umbrella for me at the Salvation Army. I scored the scrub board and found tiny magnets at Hobby Lobby that i will put on the corrugated part to hold laundry notes. the switch plate cover was found online. and the tiny wooden laundry basket was a thrift store find, also. there is a thrift store theme here, isn't there? i love thrift stores. did you notice the electric box to the right of the washboard? i painted it, too....hoping it will blend in. i guess i could have hung a picture over it....might still do that.
The lace curtain was found at Salvation Army...the plaid curtain parts on the edges came from Walmart. i scored the little red ladder at a thrift store closing up and got it for $2. then found the little hankies to hang on it at Salvation Army for 19 cents each....need 1 more. the the white piece hanging over the doorway was a Salvation Army find also...$1.99. might put some paint on it one day.
So, i can now come into the laundry room and see some pretty when i get tired of looking at insulation walls and no ceilings. LOL
Of course, eventually the laundry room will have to be cleaned out again to put in the permanent wall covering and beadboard on the bottom of the walls. and trim around walls and windows. but for now, a gallon of paint made some of my world happy.
Hopefully i will get back to the Duck in a few weeks and get more insulation hung.....
Later
I painted the ceiling something called Rich Caramel....sort of a yellowy brown. and the walls are a Burst of Orange. you won't be bored doing laundry. baseboard and window trim will be chocolate brown.
I found this cool piece of furniture made from old barn wood in a local antiques store. it's been sitting in the Duck's garage for months. my sis helped me haul it into the house....no easy feat.
Don't know what i will do with the bottom. maybe some square baskets to hold something. or just some quilts under there.
Here is a small quilt that i found .... for a buck at Goodwill.... to hang behind the glass in the top of it.
The top of it has a flower box that i will put greenery in. the piece on the wall above it was on sale for half price at Pottery Barn.
Notice the little candle holders on the sides? i found those cute orange candles at the local Salvation Army in Centralia.
And these two orange glass containers with brass lids came from the same antique store that the barnwood furniture came from. i paid $15 for the 2 of them....pretty expensive for me...but they seemed perfect for the room and i liked them. the larger one has clothespins in it, the other will hold those little bars of soaps that you find in hotels....just need to accumulate more of those or find some in a thrift store. hahahaha
The set of brown glass jars were an auction find....$4.50. of course, i dropped the lid of one of the large ones and broke it....so that one will be a flower vase. the the green runner on the piece also came from the thrift store....$1.29...someone knitted it.
I have this huge basket on the floor...not sure what it will hold yet. it might even live somewhere else in the house. gotta think on it.
On the wall above where the washer and dryer are going....i strung some burlap string...clothesline style. i found these 'wallie' laundry items...in a thrift store, naturally. the wallpaper paste doesn't really stick much anymore so i am going to clip them to the string with cute tiny colored clothespins that i found at Hobby Lobby. along with the quilt and the apron, there is a shirt and some socks. will finish hanging those next time. there are 26 pieces and will go all across the wall. the apron is about 5" tall.
This is the wall you see when you walk in the door. i found this old wooden ironing board ...antique store...$7.50....and mounted it on the wall. i will use it as a bulletin board and tack laundry coupons and ads and laundry related items to it. metal Tumbleweeds Hotel sign up in the corner. i plan to add more metal signs as i find them.
My sister spotted a gift bag at the Salvation Army that had these tiny baby clothes on it so i got it and cut them out and put them on the board. more things to come as i find them.
My sis also found the little girl with her umbrella for me at the Salvation Army. I scored the scrub board and found tiny magnets at Hobby Lobby that i will put on the corrugated part to hold laundry notes. the switch plate cover was found online. and the tiny wooden laundry basket was a thrift store find, also. there is a thrift store theme here, isn't there? i love thrift stores. did you notice the electric box to the right of the washboard? i painted it, too....hoping it will blend in. i guess i could have hung a picture over it....might still do that.
The lace curtain was found at Salvation Army...the plaid curtain parts on the edges came from Walmart. i scored the little red ladder at a thrift store closing up and got it for $2. then found the little hankies to hang on it at Salvation Army for 19 cents each....need 1 more. the the white piece hanging over the doorway was a Salvation Army find also...$1.99. might put some paint on it one day.
2 comments:
Nice color! It's starting to look nice and homey.
Actually I like it, had my doubts but knowing you I should have know better. Love You
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