If doing the laundry seems like such a heinous, boring chore, the problem might be your boring washing machine! Just kidding, the problem is the laundry. Laundry is the worst. Until they invent a washing machine that dries, folds, and puts away your clothes, or alternately, we all become nudists, laundry is something we’re just going to have to deal with. Might as well accept it. (Unless you guys are on board with the nudist thing. No? Are you sure? REALLY sure? Ok, but I thought of a funny name: The Nudest Nudists. Haha! Still no? Right. I was just checking).
Anyway. You may have to accept laundry in your life, but you don’t have to accept a boring washing machine. Medina at Grillo Designs figured out a way to bring a little excitement to hers with …
… this! What do you think it is? Paint? Vinyl? Stickers? Stencils? Guess again. “That’s all of my guesses,” you are thinking. “There is literally nothing else it could be unless she somehow cut a piece of fabric to fit perfectly over the front panel and around the door and applied it with a mixture of glue and mod-podge.”
Well I’ll be darned. You’re right. You’re so smart. Check out Medina’s process on her blog!
And if you want to add some more excitement to your entire laundry room, you’re only fooling yourself, I mean, yes, totally, good idea. That will obviously make laundry a party. Party time! All kidding aside, jazzing up your laundry room really does make laundry more enjoyable. That’s a scientifically proven fact.
Better After reader Patricia had a vision for her laundry room, and you’ll never guess what it was. Unless you guessed plaid. Wow, you’re on one today!
She says, “I’ve wanted to do that for a very long time. Finally did it. Freehand, as you can tell. Just a straight edge and sponge brush with paint. Each of the four colors used was leftover paint from other rooms in the house. (I like color). It’s a relatively small change to the room, but it carries surprisingly high impact in person.”
How fun, right? I love that she went all the way across the ceiling. Now I’m dying to see the rest of the house!
5 Comments
Jessica
November 10, 2016 at 11:20 AMWow on that plaid paint job! I’m impressed all the lines are so straight and evenly spaced. Wow again.
Patricia
November 10, 2016 at 1:36 PMThanks for featuring my plaid laundry room, Lindsey. Just to be clear, the rest of my house is not plaid. colorful, yeah, probably. plaid, no.
@Jessica – simply a laser level to show where the line is and a thin sponge brush.
Once you start, it’s not so bad. But very easy to overthink and get a bit freaked out before even starting. 🙂
Patricia
Elaine Wagg
November 10, 2016 at 2:58 PMI am so impressed by anyone doing anything freehand. Wait – I fold my laundry freehand – I don’t use one of those boards they use in retails stores to make all the dress shirts just so. Does that count? Am I am artist?
Hil
November 10, 2016 at 7:47 PMWow, nice! Both are very creative and personalized 🙂
The plaid one makes me nostalgic for some 1980’s contact paper in the house I grew up in… Oh, I found a photo: https://img0.etsystatic.com/042/0/6749504/il_570xN.558547130_3v68.jpg
Lindsey @ Better After
November 14, 2016 at 7:57 AMOh man, that was totally a blast from the past! I remembered that from my childhood too, once I saw the picture!