Making a Crowded Laundry Room Functional and Stylish

We’re serving to a pair who aren’t strangers to do-it-yourself initiatives.  

Matt and Lindsey Binion purchased their mid-Fifties home within the midtown space of Cellular, Ala., a number of years in the past and have been busy making it their very own ever since. 

After utterly renovating their kitchen due to a water leak, they put in their outdated kitchen cupboards within the laundry room to provide it a little bit of a facelift. Nevertheless, its total look and performance want some enchancment. So, we’re right here to assist!

The Initiatives

Rearrange the Cupboards

Matt and Lindsey had been on the correct path after they repurposed the outdated kitchen cupboards for storage, however their configuration simply wasn’t working for the room. 

There have been massive gaps between the cupboards and the partitions, and objects ended up being positioned throughout. The room was handled extra like an indoor storage than a laundry room.

So, we reposition them and take away some to create storage that is sensible for what the couple wanted from it. 

Then we sand, prime and paint the cupboards a contemporary new coloration.

Add a Utility Sink

In a home with 4 boys, a laundry room with a utility sink is a should. 

Lindsey has been utilizing their new kitchen sink to scrub their boys’ muddy garments after sports activities practices. And after handwashing, she has no place to hold garments to dry. 

To put in the utility sink, we first moved the water and dryer so we may entry the plumbing. Sadly, we discovered some water harm behind the wall.

Unbeknownst to the couple, water had been dripping from the cross-linked polyethylene, or PEX, line for a number of days. We instantly cap the road with a Sharkbite cap till the plumber arrives to put in the sink. 

When our plumber arrives, we lower a gap within the drywall so he can entry the pipes and reroute them to the spot the sink might be. The plumber then runs the brand new drain line for the sink and extends the water provide strains from the spot the place we capped the leak.

We then substitute the drywall across the new pipes and at last set up the laundry sink cupboard and sink. 

Substitute Flooring

The tile grout on the laundry room ground is coming unfastened, so we’re going to exchange it with some leftover luxurious vinyl tile that the couple used of their kitchen renovation. 

After we take away the tiles and backer board with a pry bar, we discover a moist spot on the subfloor the place the PEX pipe was leaking. As a result of we caught the water leak early, we received’t have to exchange the subfloor. We use some dehumidifiers and followers to dry it out in a single day, after which deal with it with an antimicrobial spray to verify no mildew comes up by way of the ground.

To stage out the subfloor, we combine some ground patch compound that he spreads over the floor to fill in low spots and easy out the transitions. We then put in the oblong luxurious vinyl tile long-ways within the room to enrich the slender room. 

For a extra detailed take a look at find out how to set up this luxurious vinyl tile, watch Methods to Simply Set up Luxurious Vinyl Tile.

Set up Counter tops and Cubbies

Matt and Lindsey used a bit of plywood as a makeshift countertop for the repurposed kitchen cupboards. However, the plywood wasn’t a first-rate floor for folding laundry, so the couple was pressured to pile laundry in the lounge and fold them from their sofa. 

To make this counter area extra practical, we first set up 1-by-2 cleats to help a brand new butcher block countertop in addition to a shelf unit that may manage the children’ laundry baskets. 

For our shelf unit, we lower our wooden items on a desk noticed exterior and assemble them with nails and wooden glue. We then connect them to the cleat we put in subsequent to the bottom cupboards.

Subsequent, Lindsey coats the butcher block with polyurethane. After that’s dry, we set up the countertop over the shelving unit and base cupboards.  

We additionally:

• Repaired drywall
• Painted room new coloration
• Put in hooks within the hallway

Submit-Manufacturing Ideas

Matt and Lindsey had a decent-sized laundry room with numerous space for storing, however as a result of it had been thrown along with salvage supplies from an emergency kitchen renovation, the surfaces all regarded a bit worse for put on and the room lacked the considerate group and visible attraction they actually needed for the area.

However now, the outdated recycled cupboards have a clear new look and a simplified structure that works with the room relatively than overpowering it. The brand new luxurious vinyl tile flooring has changed the outdated cracked ceramic tiles and connects the room to the remainder of the home.

The laundry sink makes the household’s on a regular basis chores simpler and fewer anxious, particularly with the hanging area immediately above it and the brand new countertop is each enticing and helpful for a household with numerous laundry to fold. 

Plus. We did all of it for lower than $2,000 in supplies.

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