Laundry Room Reveal

Okay, here is the deal.

I spend a lot of time doing laundry. 

And that is probably an understatement.

I also spend a lot of time doing hair. 

Also an understatement. 

And before my downstairs piano room got turned into a salon (reveal coming soon) 

I had all of my hair supplies in my linen closet. 

Which meant I had no linen closet. 

And although we built this gorgeous new home a few years ago, the laundry room came with one tiny, useless wire shelf. I am telling you that rooms with a single wire shelf are the greatest testament to men building homes instead of women. 

So we livened up the laundry room! The hubs built wooden shelves, I faux-bricked the walls, added every living kind of farmhouse container we could find, and voi la! Enjoy the photos and GET INSPIRED! If you are going to spend all your time doing laundry, it may as well be in a beautiful place. 

In the corner, the hubs built a small triangular shelf. I wanted a functional but beautiful place to hang wet clothes that couldn't go in the dryer- so we placed it high enough to hang dresses and made the shelf deep enough to fit hangers. 

We drilled through the shelf and hung a copper rod off the bottom. This is based off the DIY wardrobe rod we did in the nursery a few months prior.

We went to Home Depot for our copper, bought end caps and cut it to the correct length at home. Now I have the perfect place to hang clothes that need to be hung dry. 

The next area of focus are the amazing shelves. I knew the storage containers I wanted from Amazon  and linked for you right there in my list "for the home". They were big enough to hold several towels and sheet sets and come in a set of 6 for $75. Once I knew how deep and high the shelves needed to be, the hubs built the shelves. He used trim wood for the underneath and bought sheets of wood that we cut to size at home for the actual shelf.  The point of the laundry room was FUNCTION. The bins had to be big enough to actually hold the things I need and also look cute while doing it. They are perfect. I got magnets at Target and used place cards I cut in half to label the outside of the bin. As organizational needs change over time, it is easy to change the bin label unlike writing with a permanent marker.

The cutest thing I loved adding in was the vintage laundry container that I fill with Tide Pods. So yes, I did switch from liquid detergent to pods in order to have the aesthetic I wanted in my laundry room 

The faux brick was awesome but we definitely did it wrong. We did the shelves first and THEN the faux brick. DON'T do that. Do the faux brick first and THEN the shelves or you will be cutting the brick panels around the shelving instead of putting up whole sheets. 

Here is the tutorial I followed for making faux-brick walls. All you need is brick paneling, a nail gun, and some spackel. 

TIP: go light on the spackel. I put too much on and it lost the whole brick feel so i sanded it off. WHAT A MESS. Don't do that. After you are done, wipe your walls off with a wet towel to remove any dust that would brush off on your clothes.

For the finale- the hooks behind the door. 

I have created a board like this in my kids bathroom as well and it is a LIFE SAVER. Forget spending $40 on a pre-fab hook board from a store. Instead, get a piece of wood exactly the length you measure, stain it or paint it and add the number of hooks you like. This one in the laundry room was added specifically for the summertime when we have loads of wet towels and swimsuits that need a space to hang that is out of the way and won't ruin in moisture.

So there you have it! The glamorous laundry room of my dreams. Drop a comment if you have any questions. And follow along the rest of my life on IG @kristidbennett