Laundry room...

While looking at my kitchen this week I realized we don't have a lot of storage space and the grocery bags and Tupperware were very quickly taking over all of the cupboards. So after a quick trip to Home Depot and Walmart, I decided that today was the day we were going to re-do our laundry room for extra storage and a place to store kitchen appliances that really didn't need to be in the kitchen 24/7, such as the crock pot,  juicer, and espresso machine. While at Walmart I picked up hooks to hang my cleaning supplies and Home Depot we picked up the shelves. 

Please note my beautiful drawing of what I wanted the room to look like when we were done:

My mother always told me to be an artist, but I suppose I will write until my art career takes off (sarcasm noted).

I picked a burn your eyes blue because I hate doing laundry with the deepest passion of my heart and I figured if it was bright and cheery, I might want to go in there more often. 

As always here are some very important things to keep in mind:

1.) A laundry room has a lot of pipes and wires and other such surprises running behind the drywall so understand that you may not be able hang shelves where you had planned so just go with the flow and do the best you can.

2.) Learning from the flooring disaster we just went ahead and pulled everything out of the laundry room (expect the washer that requires four men to move it) to paint and hang shelves to make the job much easier.

3.) Do not buy the first "L" bracket you find. We traveled into the deepest darkest pits of Home Depot and found much more efficient brackets and saved ourselves five dollars a bracket. Overall, that is $45 we saved.

4.) Don't use a stud finder. Because of the pipes and wires running behind the drywall the stud finder will go insane and you could send a screw through a water line. Not good. I have attached a video if you have never found a stud without a stud finder. It is always a great skill to have, especially for DIY projects.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XALXlx5cc1s

Yay! Now the almost finished product! It needs some more organizing and more efficiency, but the end is near...