Laundry Room

These are the stairs to the laundry room (and the back entrance to the basement unit). It is a sad, dismal, dirty stairwell. When you get to the bottom, it doesn't really improve. Old, cat-urine soaked, smelly, crumbly, brown carpeting.  Navy blue, light blue, or white color walls, some of which is flaking off--including on the brick wall that makes the foundation for the house.  And the laundry itself is pretty depressing.  It is cramped.  Dirty.  Dusty. Spidery. Not at all a place that I want clean laundry to touch. 


So, since our dear friend in the basement is gone for two weeks.  We are taking advantage of her absence to clean up the space:  New paint!  New carpet!  New dryer! New floor!  When she returns, this will no longer be a disgusting part of the house to walk through, or to do laundry in.  We are making the laundry room pretty!

It should be easy!  Scrap the walls, remove the carpet and linoleum tiles, sand the steps/walls/doors, and repaint and retile.  We bought the stick-on grey tiles (we are going super upscale for the room, can't you tell?) that will be the flooring throughout the laundry room and outside in the hallway.  We bought carpet tiles that adhere to the treads with the rest of the stairs being exposed, painted wood.  We have a nice light cream color-- enough to be a color but not enough to be beige-- for the walls.  The stairs, doors,  and trim will be white.

The new dryer comes on June 23rd.  Dear friend returns June 24th.  That gives us 12 days.  We totally have this!