The laundry room...
As you can see, I basically moved my old dining room into our new breakfast room…
…no drastic changes. I even ordered the exact same light fixture I had at the other house!
(Can you tell I discovered my wide angle lens on my Iphone…lol!)
This house has a formal dining room, but we really aren’t formal dining kinda people so I have not been in a hurry to do anything in that room just yet. This week I finally ordered a “formal” dining table. It will take about 4 months to deliver so at some point I will figure out what I want to do in the way of chairs. No hurry…we have the breakfast room and 4 bar stools.
One of my absolute favorite changes I made to this house was in the laundry room, which is adjacent to the breakfast room….
The laundry room in this house is amazing…good sized with lots of storage and a utility sink! Even a cute little built in ironing board!
Originally the laundry room had a full wall of upper cabinets above the counter.
Nice storage, but something I can live without. So I decided to add something I have always wanted…a huge window in my laundry room!
The window opens to the side screened porch, but it still provides a ton of natural light and fresh air. I absolutely fricking LOVE it!!!
(This house has lots of windows in each room, but it also has a screened porch, an “all-season” room and a covered front porch…so all the natural light is a bit “defused.” Great for keeping the house cool in the summer and cozy in the winter, but it does make the house a tad “darkish.” )
Adding a window is not for the faint of heart…the cabinets had to all be removed, new framing, new sheetrock, removal of the old brick and then new brick around the new window.
But it was worth the effort and cost.
I had new quartz counters installed, new tile backsplash, a new stainless sink, new LED lighting and of course new paint…same color as my last laundry room makeover in the last house. The nice thing about having just completed makeovers in my guest bath and laundry room in the last house is I spent NO time deciding on counter top and wall colors…I knew what I wanted!
Eventually I will change the flooring…this tile floor is pretty dated. I may eventually paint the cabinets. In all honesty I am so in love with the window I don’t even notice the floor or the cabinet color!
There were a few changes I made to this house that were spot on…this was definitely one of them!
The kitchen is finally complete. Our tile shower is finally done! And this week I started painting all the trim “whiter.” Hopefully next week the landscaper will start the yard.
It is coming together nicely!
