Laundry Rooms Past and Present

I have had several requests for photos of my old laundry room that I did for the One Room Challenge. I do miss this room. It was huge as you can see, and a pleasure to do laundry, ironing, crafts, and flower arranging. The wonderful wallpaper is the discontinued Brunschwig & Fils "Ironing Bored."

Although my new laundry room will be much smaller (this one was 250 square feet), it will be darling.

I have the wallpaper to use.

I got this beachy rattan pendant at Lowe's.

I am looking today for a new laundry sink in stainless steel - the current one is plastic. The laundry room has built in white cabinets, but the knobs are sad and I need some really fun ones - so I just ordered these on Etsy.

Hope you enjoyed this post. The house is really coming together beautifully. The painters should be out tomorrow.

HomeGoods Find

I found this very Chinoiserie Chic mirror framed giclee at HomeGoods and ended up putting it in my laundry room. It is a beautiful giclee and very well framed - it is by Art Source. Anybody familiar with them? A great piece at any rate.

Chinoiserie Trends 2017 - The Laundry Room

Kevin Walsh

The laundry room will continue to be a hot trend in 2017, with more and more homebuyers putting a great laundry room on their must have list. Laundry rooms, far from being purely utilitarian, are getting more and more decorated, with beautiful wallpaper, lighting, and furnishings.

Chinoiserie, especially blue and white, is a perfect choice, giving a laundry room a fresh and clean vibe. Blue and white wallpaper is a natural choice, as are blue and white accessories.

Kevin Walsh

My Laundry Room Inspiration Board

My Laundry Room

A Chinoiserie Christmas - Day 12

Beth Connolly Interiors

My laundry room  decorated for the holidays. Also please check out my new Houzz Ideabook by clicking on the link in the right column for my picks on decorating for the holidays with blue and white.

The Blue and White Chinoiserie Laundry Room

Kevin Walsh

 Since I turned my laundry room into a blue and white Chinoiserie retreat for the One Room Challenge a year and a half ago, I have enjoyed discovering more great laundry rooms that have been elevated from utilitarian to extraordinary.  In addition to doing laundry, a beautifully done laundry room can be the perfect space for a home office, wrapping gifts, crafts, flower arranging, homework, the possibilities are limitless. Recently I toyed with the idea of adding an antique Chinoiserie daybed I saw at auction, but decided that might be too weird.

Here is a fantastic laundry room that includes many of the same features I used in my own laundry room.

*A dramatic wallpaper in blue and white, here the iconic Clarence House The Vase. Since a laundry room is probably not a room wants to use artwork on the walls, a great wallpaper is the perfect solution. I personally think that no color scheme is as fresh and clean and crisp looking as blue and white in a laundry room.

*White cabinetry and white washer and dryer - again, I think white is such a clean look and I am not personally a big fan of washers and dryers in colors.

*A classic black and white tile floor.

*Upscale lighting and accessories.

*Seating.

*A Steele commercial laundry hamper.

If you'd like to check out my own laundry room, click here.

Kevin Walsh

Kevin Walsh

My laundry room

My laundry room

Christmas Chez Chinoiserie Chic

Starting today, we will be taking a tour of my home decorated for the holidays. I hope you enjoy it.

For the laundry room, I have hung a Chinoiserie stocking in blue and white and a burlap stocking. The large ginger jar gets adorned with a preserved boxwood wreath. And I have placed on my work table a favorite book of mine, Winter House by Charlotte Moss.

The One Room Challenge - The Laundry Room

Next Wednesday, October 1 is the launch of the new One Room Challenge and I am so excited. On Tuesday, we took a look back at the room I did for the last ORC, a Man Cave for my husband. The room I have chosen to redo this time is a space just for me.

For the previous One Room Challenge last fall, I redid my laundry room. It went from a depressing catchall to what may be my favorite room in my house. I like being in there so much, I have even toyed with the idea of moving my desktop computer in there and/or a television. Here are some photos of it - to see the full reveal, you can click here.