My Laundry Room Renovation

Last September I wrote a blog post about my modern kitchen renovation. You can read about it here if you missed it. Another area that was renovated at the same time as the kitchen was our laundry room. I wanted to share the photos of that room in a separate blog post.

What started out as a small 6 ft x 5 ft box of a laundry room has now become a side entry, a room with storage cabinets, and a roomy laundry room. The old room was so small I couldn’t even take a picture of it, thus the only “before” photo I have is of the room in the framing stage. We installed a new entry door into the laundry room and the other entry point is from the garage. You walk into the kitchen from the laundry room. We still liked our stainless steel-looking washer and dryer. I coordinated the steel colour with the stone that we selected for the countertop that was going to cover the appliances.

My husband and I had difficulty figuring out the cabinet layout and where the washer and dryer should go.  So we taped out the layout options on our garage floor. Doing it this way helped us to “walk around” the space and decide on the best layout design option.

Once that was decided on, we could install the pot lights and the tall cabinet box that contains the tankless water heater. The plumber was coming and the cabinet needed to be in place before the unit could be installed.

We carried the same flooring (Kentwood Brushed Acacia Natural) from the kitchen through into the laundry room, and eventually, it will also be installed in the rest of the living area of our home. Once the flooring was complete, then the cabinet boxes could be installed.

We didn’t have a chance to paint the walls before the cabinet boxes went in (it’s all about the timing, isn’t it?), but we still had to hang the side panels of the cabinets so we could paint up close to the boxes. The cabinet boxes were then finished with the painted white (BM Ice Mist  OC-67) cabinet panels.

And finally here is the end result!

 

 

We are so happy with this transformation! It makes doing laundry just a little bit more enjoyable.

Are you thinking about a laundry room renovation for your home? If you would like some help with selecting the finishes for your renovation or new build, I would be happy to help. You can contact me through my contact page.