WE DID IT!!! We finally completed our laundry room renovation, and let’s just say I am one THANKFUL person to have all of those decisions behind us. We ran into a lot of difficult things, from sanding and painting cabinets, to laundry countertop installations being delayed due to Covid, to searching for a faucet that would actually fit this sink…but we did it, and I am so happy with the outcome.
BEFORE: When we purchased the house, this was our only first floor bedroom. We couldn’t really tell how big the room truly was, until the previous owner removed all of his stuff, and until we demoed a massive closet, which you can catch a glimpse of in the lower left hand corner. Removing the closet completely opened up the room.
AFTER: We hired a plumber to move the laundry room plumbing up from the basement (which was conveniently right underneath this room). We placed our cabinets in the area where the old closet was, and we tried to functionally use as much of this space that we could.
Here’s what we used:
Cabinets?
We repurposed old, leftover cabinets from my sister’s kitchen reno. We sanded these babies down, painted them, and mounted some new hardware, and VOILA! They look as good as new.
Also, my sister and her husband decided to donate the rest of their cabinets to Habitat For Humanity Restore Shop. Have you Checked out your local Habitat For Humanity Restore shop? I stop in there every once in awhile. It’s a GREAT place to find sinks, new doorknobs, old doused furniture, etc. Definitely put it on your list, if you haven’t visited before!
To prep the cabinets prior to painting, I used mainly used an orbital sander and a sanding block. Click the link below to check out the orbital sander that I used!
https://rstyle.me/+kCcHfHomSeIP7vaJ5M8uCg
As for the paint we used on the cabinets we chose Sherwin Williams Pro Classic Interior Latex paint (Semi-gloss in the color extra white)
Countertops?
We searched high and low for a countertop remnant at a couple of local countertop shops. We were searching for a remnant, because we were truly hoping to save a few dollars, and we had NO luck after searching for six months. We found several that we loved, but the sizing was not matching up with what we needed.
That’s when I did my research and found out that a blogger that I loved (Liz Marie Glavan), purchased her countertops from Home Depot. We headed over to Home Depot, and I instantly knew that’s where we were going to purchase our countertops. Come to find out?! They run frequent sales, and they were running a 20% off sale on all countertops. Home Depot is really open about sharing when their upcoming sales are, so if you are willing to wait, head in a talk with a representative, and they will give you all of the details! The 20% off sale is the highest sale of the year, so we totally lucked out. Another cool fact? Since we went with Quartz, Home Depot sells the countertops, but it was actually a local countertop shop (that we visited) that installed them and they did a fabulous job. They were in and out of our house within 10 minutes!
As for the style and color of countertops, we went with Rococo Quartz. I originally was going to buy marble, but I did a lot of research and found that there is a lot of upkeep with marble, and it can stain pretty easily. So, I truly loved the color of these countertops, because it was the closest thing to marble that I could find.
Flooring?
Home Depot. Flooring linked below!
https://rstyle.me/+yravJMPcLb3TeB6a6vBk3A
Shelf?
Oh that shelf. We originally had a shelf built at a local wood shop, and we realized we measured it a bit short, so we ended up having to buy another shelf. This actually turned out to be a bit of a blessing because the shelf we originally were going to hang was going to be extremely hard to hang on the wall, free-floating style. So, we ended up calling another local shop, and they built the shelf with two plywood pieces (on top and bottom) and put an actual piece of wood along the face of the shelf, and they constructed it so that it had a french cleat. This allowed us to mount the shelf really easily and it will allow me to put heavy items on the shelf. I’m always switching things up around here, so I wanted to be able to put heavy items on the shelf, if that’s something I decided I wanted to do, later on down the road.
Door?
I was inspired by an Instagram friend to create a laundry door using a $25 vinyl decal from Hobby Lobby, and we were so happy with the result! I found a $20 door on Facebook Marketplace, we sanded this baby down, added some wood filler, added shatterproof glass, and then added on the Laundry decal.
Lockers?
A $50 Facebook Marketplace find! How fun are these? They were covered in stickers and pretty dirty. So, after a good scrub down and half of bottle of GooGone later, we had some lockers that were ready to be sanded down and painted. I used Rustoleum Chalk Paint in the color Linen White. See link below to view the product:
https://rstyle.me/+bvRmYYci6PF3_Q1HyFgw-A
Other Details?
These french soap cubes add such a cute detail to any laundry or bathroom space.
Get them here:
https://rstyle.me/+62kkXofIYRf_R3RqUemFlw
Or here:
https://rstyle.me/+5KhU4n5J5BDv4gYXmrz0rQ
And that’s a wrap! So incredibly happy that we are finally done with the laundry space…which means that we have one room left unfinished on our main floor (hi, kitchen!) but we won’t be getting to that for a few years. Want to know what our next project is? Head to Instagram (@thisoldbrickhouse) to follow along with our daily projects!
Thanks for stopping by the blog today!
Jenna