Project #3: Completed

You know those laundry rooms with clean, crisp blue walls, handy storage, cute sayings on the walls and a treadmill in the corner?

Yeah, I don't have one of those.

But I dream about them.

And long for one.

Not really. But sometimes.

Especially when the clutter that has become our laundry room about sends me over the edge.

But no more! Because Project #3: laundry room is complete.

You know how when you have space, you tend to use it and fill it up? That's how I operate as well. So our pretty decent sized laundry room had quickly become the resting place for any items that wouldn't fit in our kitchen or our busting at the seams storage space under the stairs. After almost three years of this, it had become quite the sight. This picture was taken after a couple trips of donation goods and garbage had already been made out of the house. You can't tell, but that's a 4-slice toaster, waffle maker and KitchenAid mixer still in their boxes, all never been used. "Someday!" I tell Tom. We also found beautiful Nautica glasses that we are apparently waiting to use for a really super special occassion. Or in the event that our other everyday glasses all break. We had both totally forgotten about them. It was like opening wedding presents all over again.

Anyone need an air filter? Wrong size.

We are finally parting ways with a set of antique dishes my dad found for us that we thought we would need/use but never have. Hopefully someone else can use them joyfully. And lots of random bowls and kitchen stuff and photo albums and empty boxes ("but what if we need to mail something?!")

What a difference two hours and some Hoarders (please tell me you watch that show?!) training tips make!

Tom said we didn't need two coolers, which I disagreed with.

It's not blue, doesn't have storage bins for detergent/sprays/clothes pins and whatever else people put in those, nor does it have a cute "Loads of Fun" or "Home of a Domestic Goddess" saying on the wall, but there is ROOM and SPACE and I can see the FLOOR and I love it.