Showing posts with label mud room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mud room. Show all posts

Friday, July 17, 2009

projects

A few months ago I posted about all the projects I have been working on. Well, this one has been a never-ending (as I'm sure our friend, Jake, who built it all for us can attest to) one but I am getting SO close to being done so I thought I'd go ahead and share the results with you. Jake built all these cabinets (THANK YOU!) from a rough sketch I did of what I wanted and he did an amazing job. Jamie and I spent hours at night after Hudson was in bed painting all of this wood. And of course the wood just soaked up the first 2 coats so we had to put 3 or 4 coats on it all. We've been working on it for a long time! But I have so much storage now I don't even know what to store in all the space!
This is my new mudroom. When we finished the basement we moved our laundry room downstairs so this is the old laundry room. It's the entryway from the garage to the house and was a VERY tiny laundry room. So it works much better as a mud room - i.e. place to put down all your junk as you are walking into the house! I still have to paint the drawer fronts (not pictured here) and put pulls on them. I also haven't found the hooks I want for the right side. It's like a big locker and I want to hang hooks there to put bags and coats on and such. I am looking for hooks that hang from the ceiling - anyone seen those? The left middle part has a "smart station" which means an area where we can put all of our electronic devices to charge them up. It's really just a fancy name for power strip hidden behind a piece of wood but I love not having all those cords all over the kitchen anymore!
This is my new storage area in the laundry room. Like I said, I haven't even found enough stuff to store to use all my space yet!

And more storage! I like having the counter top for folding laundry and the top drawer has a fold out ironing board! Yes, still more painting to do here as well.




And this is my new craft/scrabooking area which I am MOST excited about. Now all my stuff will have a place instead of spread all over the office floor. And I can sit in a chair instead of on the floor to scrapbook! For my birthday I am getting some baskets and organizer things for this area. Once I get it all done I'll finally get back to my scrapbooking - and a few other projects!



This is a peg board that hangs above my scrapbook desk (Thanks Jeremy and Cecil for getting it put up!). I'm going to use it to organize more of my scrapbook supplies, wrapping paper and stuff like that. I'll post a picture once I get it done.
So we've been busy - and now that it's (almost) done I have a whole list of other projects to start on!