Getting Steamy

Hoo-boy, I’ve been excited to share this one.  As you may know, I am a proud contributing writer over on one of the best sites on the interwebs, Cake Wrecks. All week long Cake Wrecks is a barrage of the most hilariously terrible professional cakes that your eyeballs can handle, and then some.  Come Sunday, your eyeballs no doubt need a break from all that wreckage, so that’s where I come in. I write about beautiful cakes and confections in a feature called Sunday Sweets.

But ANYWAY that’s not even the point.  The point is Jen, the mastermind behind Cake Wrecks also has a more personal blog called Epbot, where she shares her love of all things girly and geeky and steam-punky. She and her husband John recently gave their laundry room a steampunkified makover, so let’s check it out right now!

What’s that you say?  You don’t know what steampunk is?  Steampunk is really cool … and really hard to define in a few words.  I’m no expert, but here’s a few: Rust. Cogs. Gears. Corsets. Crazy old-timey inventions. Industrial Victorian.  A fantasy sub-genre that blurs the lines between the future and the past?  Does that help?  You’re probably better off Googling that one.

But anyway, here’s how Jen and John steampunked their laundry room:

 

Steampunk is all in the details, so you’ll have to head on over to her blog to see them up close.  My favorite is the ‘steam boiler’ which is actually the water heater in disguise!

They also disguised that totally NON steampunk pantry with a sliding barn door and shared their easy tutorial here.

Note the faux tin ceiling?  Fun touch!  Next up, Jen hopes to give the washer and dryer the steampunk treatment, which would be so super cool to see. And speaking of cool, here is one last steamy makeover from Jen, this time as her cosplay character ‘Lady Vadore,’ a very loving, steampunky, and girly homage to Darth Vader. Again, I’m the last person on the earth who could adequately define ‘cosplay’ but it sure looks like fun.