Guest Blogger | Laundry Room Re-Do

I can't pass a Garage Sale or Antique Store without thinking of my mother. For as long as I can remember, she's been collecting, buying and re-selling, or restoring vintage treasures. We share a joy of creating fun and bring spaces, and an eye for retro or nostalgic pieces. Here's her latest project in my childhood home.

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BEFORE (yikes!)

 AFTER (yay!)

This laundry room re-do is awash in bright colors and vintage containers. The colors were inspired by Hudson Bay blankets and old camp chairs. A camp/cottage theme is evident throughout.

Picnic baskets make for excellent storage, tucking away a myriad items from tools to cleaning supplies, extension cords to old sheets. Baskets can be transformed by painting them any shade you desire. The examples here were picked up at garage sales and flea markets ($5-$15).

Coffee cans are a real eye-opener lending a jolt of color and are great for storing smaller items like cleaning brushes, stray buttons, safety pins, or loose change that ends up in the laundry. These cans turn up regularly at estate sales, usually in the garage (nominally priced).

My husband has a colleciton of vintage advertising yardsticks which we used as shelf edging. My favorite is for a rendering company -- "Highest Cash Prices - Dead Horses - Cattle." You don't see that every day! The yardsticks were purchased at antique malls and feal markets ($1-$3).

The letters, door hardware, and metal shelf brackets all came from Hobby Lobby.

This room will help to wash away my laundry day blues!

- MJE

More posts from my mom:

If I Ran the Zoo...Or the Container Store

Baubles Bangles and Beads