laundry room reveal

I mentioned last week that one of my goals this weekend was to organize my laundry room, and that I did! I repainted it a lovely shade of pale aqua, bought a hamper-cart-on-wheels to stick in between the washer and dryer, recovered the top in some dwell studio fabric I had leftover from our bedroom roman shade, and voila! ...a place where I don't mind spending hours in!

I also seperated household cleaning supplies from bathroom supplies and stashed them in some metal baskets from Home Goods, so now I can tote around a basket without having to grab different cleaners from 6 different places around the house. The third basket holds all our light bulbs, batteries, and masking/packing tape.

One of the things that I've had tucked away in the back of my mind since we moved in a year ago is to organize contain the multitude of appliance/instruction manuals we've collected. I filed all those away in a lovely Ikea box, and paired it with another box full of household receipts (save plant receipts from Lowe's or HD- if they die, you take back and they replace!).

My one DIY project was hot-gluing clothespins to a chalkboard mirror I already had. We've got lots of little socks floating around in the Layton household. :)

This laundry room was my inspiration... so fresh, bright, and pretty! 

Please forgive the normal people pictures...I'm not blessed with mad photog skills or a nice camera like most of the blogosphere.

{Before}

{After}

The only free laundry stain guide I could find online wasn't exactly what I wanted, so I opened up Illustrator (yes, this former Microsoft Word user has converted, thank God!) and made my own. I copied the stain tips from the aforementioned find...click and you'll see why I re-did it...then double checked them with Martha Stewart's stain guide, so they're tried and true! Print and hang if you're so inclined. :)

Download here!

~Yay for loads of lovely laundry!~