Storage Room

I love organizing, therefore... I like my storage rooms to be 100% perfect! IN THEORY!! Lol

However storage rooms normally have the most stuff in them and are difficult to keep under control. 

Our new home has a very large beautiful storage room. I am excited to get started on it, and you have NO idea how excited I am to get ideas from Jen at iheartorganizing!!

Can some one say AMAZING!!!!! 

I seriously am in LOVE!! :) yes with a room!

Here is the space I am working with.

View from the door

Under porch cold storage

One of two walls of shelves 

Wall #2 of shelves.

I have already decided and asked hubby to be supportive. NOTHING goes in this room until I'm ready!! ;) hehe

Thanks to Jen. I have a whole breakdown of how I plan to do it.. However sometimes my ideas are bigger then me! ;) lol

I will start by painting the floor. Like she did here 

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When I shows hubby. He honestly laughed out loud. Really your going to paint the floor. "Whatever you want" 

 

This is the new catch phrase for me! 

 

I totally LOVE the blue she used, however hubby isn't quite on board.  So a few days ago, I sent him Paint color after Paint color after Paint color.. until he had had MORE then enough! :) lol

At this point we have decided on

or

Lush Sage                   or      Dusty Leaf

 

I love them both, so I am happy either way! I am using this type of paint and I am really hoping it will all turn out well!!

Beyond that, I want my storage room to look PRETTY!! :)

At this point I will be painting the wood White.  I have been on the fence between white and black, but I feel that at this point, nice clean colors would be very useful for this space.

I currently have alot of baby stuff to get organized, and I still have a huge garage storage area, so I think that for the most part, this will be the house to my scrapbooking stuff and baby items, until my little Ewan is too big for them!
Just imagine how BEAUTIFUL it will be, once I finish.

Budget for this project $50
I am hoping that the max I will need for this room is just Paint.
-Clean/Vacuum/Wipe down every service 
-Paint Floor
-Paint Shelves
-Match boxes
-Label EVERYTHING.


One day down the road. I would also like to add these

I have never been really big into food storage, however I think it would be very beneficial to get alittle stock pile.

I also want to put a deep freeze in this room as well

 

 

 

Coat Closet

 I love SMALL spaces.  I like organizing and figuring them all out, how I want to change them, and organize them. :D for me that is ENTERTAINMENT!! I also think that I can feel more accomplished with them.

I swear if the sellers of our new house knew that I was posting all these pics on the Word Wide Web, they would prob cringe.  HOWEVER, thats the joys of selling a house, EVERYTHING can be viewed. 

Here is our front closet as it is right now.  I totally love the french doors.  Not really sure why, other then I just dont like a BIG door right when you enter the house.

So far my hopes and dreams haven't gone TOO far! :) lol Because of the hopeful mud room in the laundry room this closet wont have too much use.  I am still not completely sure where the vacuum will be kept, if it does end up in this closet, i would like to build in some shelves like this. 

  

This isn't exactly what I want, but I cant find the proper picture.  

After we do that I would like to put some baskets at the top for our seasonal stuff. IE gloves/sunblock 

Then I want to keep our less used coats.  I am still not sure what i will do with the floor space.  I would like to keep all the shoes in the mud room, or in our personal closets, so at this point i would like it to stay empty, or possibly put a box for donations there so when we will be by DI we can drop it off. 

There are many ideas out ther to change their coat closet to a nice little bench area.  Needless to say I am NOT a fan.  If it is your cup of tea, go for it, it just doesnt fit me! :)

 No Thanks.  That's what my (future) mudroom is for!

I love how this looks

Im not really one for pastels, however I love how clean this looks.

 

I really like THIS one too! I just love how simple and clean it is.  

If you can't tell, this room will prob be the SIMPLEST to redo, however I think that is a GOOD thing!!!

I need some simple easy projects amongst all my CRAZY hard working ones.

Laundry room plan part 2

I'm gonna back peddle just a BIT.  You saw my beautiful lavender color I wanted to do the walls, well...I showed hubby, and he nixed that idea.  Needless to say, I was alittle sad :'( however, we have to work as a team right!
So I have NOT gotten the ok yet from hubby, but I think this is my new plan for the walls!
I love this TALL boards, so that is plan #1.  Add boarding and white to full wall, just like this.













However the top color, is NOT going to be my beautiful lavender.
So THIS is my How to from Young House Love (cause I know I will need alittle assistance) 

So I searched the wonderful internet, looking for a good paint color.  As I looked, I thought about my current house, and how I love the color of our current washer and dryer.  Needless to say, I have found a PERFECT color scheme!!

Blackstrap

Crucible

High-Speed Steel 

Porcelain Shale

Academy Gray

Iron Frost

Hopefully, it will look kinda like this (the walls) , when all is said and done. Now i just have to pick which ONE of those colors! :) lol

  OR

I really like the dark color, but im willing to compromise if chris doesn't like the dark.

I haven't asked the hubby  about the light, and since that is way down on the list.  I have even started thinking about some possible track lighting like we had in our family room, however they are not available anymore, i like this one 

However not necessary at this stage of planning (donesn't mean I cant Dream) :)

Also there is one last thing I would like to add

I think this will happen about the same time as the lighting, but I think that if I can find the right colors, it should look PRETTY!!  Here is how I plan to make it.
https://docs.google.com/a/utah.gov/forms/d/1AQYZ7BmnJKLB5oj0KVo2FK8gz8AokRa4CmdLSeIDysY/viewform
I am thinking of doing a gray or black with just a hint of color. But we will see how it looks!

Follow up: My wonderful hubby and I have now discussed the paint color, AND he approves.  Looks like right now my fave is Crucible and hubby's is High Speed Steel.  They seriously look almost the same, so we will have to look in person:)

     Lily's                        

Chris'

Laundry Room

It is already a WELL known fact that I LOVE LAUNDRY ROOMS!!!

This is our current laundry room with the current owners stuff.

Here are a few of my inspiration pictures, thanks to PINTREST :D

 

This is one of my FAVORITES

I love the cabinet in the middle.

I have found this beauty that I would love to put there

 

Im not sure how it would fit in the space, but I think it would look nice.

However with the $89 price tag it is alittle steep, considering I think I would need at least 2 or so. 

I have also been looking at our local Craig list (KSL classifieds) to see if I can find something for about $40. 

  

I love these sheelfs, I think they would look really nice above my sink.  I would prob make them alittle less tall, but still pretty cool.

 

I have found some good similarities at Ikea YES i LOVE IKEA! :) 

 

These average at about $10 each.  I have also found some at our hardware stores, so im not totally sure what my plan is, but im slowly thinking it though.

I really want to do THIS 

 

I have already told my wonderful hubby that I would like to add this style.  He is not really big into bold colors, he prefers neutrals, but Im thinking of doing a color like this for the upper half of the wall.  I love the clean lines of the white board bottom.   

OK ENTER MY GIRLY THING

I stole this idea from House of Smiths blog.  However, with 3 boys in the house, I need alittle girly BLING.  This also REALLY makes me want to make the walls this COLOR along with the white.  

Im not sure if I will be able to convince the boys, however the laundry room IS mine, so I will see what I can do! :)

There is currently a big sink and counter, along with a big cabnet however, I would like to get rid of all of that.  Well not the sink.  I really would love to have  mud room

OR  

I love how these cubby's look, and I think they would give a good use to our space.  I know that our space is smaller.  I would like to have a place for each of the 4 of us to have a drop zone.  IE shoes, purse, coat, backpacks, etc.

We currently have a 2 door system, from the garage into the house, so I would like to move the door from where it currently is, to enter a break between the laundry room and future mud room.

 

From this pic, i wold like to get rid of the counter next to the sink.  And add the door there.  I am not sure how that would go, so it is till very much in the air, but i would like the rest of that space for a mud room.

I have yet to figure out my estimated budget, but I know that this whole process will go SLOW, and I will be using alot of things I have around home to build my dream!

However I have put together a list of things to make it work for us.

• Paint
• New Washer and Dryer (our current ones are staying with the house)
• Iron Station
• New Light
• Panels on wall 
• Cabnets above Wash/Dryer
• Shelf's above sink
• Window treatment
• Move door
• Mud room plan
• Place for coats, shoes, keys, etc
•  sorting system?

Well as you can see there is LOTS of planning at this point.  I know that this is one of the rooms I would like to get working on just after we move in.  However we are not going to be buying our washer and dryer for a few days after we move in, so I would like to start with,
-taking down the current system on the wall, and Paint behind where the washer and dryer will go, and on the window wall.  We will see what happens!!!

Happy MONDAY everyone.