Before I even start to show you the beautiful new rug in the laundry room, can we all observe a moment of silence that I even have a laundry ROOM. With windows. Two windows. I’m dizzy with happiness.
The novelty of this has not faded for me yet, and I hope I never take it for granted or forget how much I hated doing laundry in laundromats and dirty basements for the past ten years. I positively longed for a laundry room.
The laundry room in our new house is right off the mudroom and you haven’t really seen either of those spaces here on the blog yet. Largely because my precious, longed-for laundry room has been an easy dumping grounds since we moved in.
But I have plans. Oh, do I have plans.
Just this week I cleared out some of the clutter and added a plush indoor/outdoor rug – the Barcelona Flores Off White Rug by Jaipur, from Payless Rugs.
It is so soft and cushy underfoot, I kick my shoes off just so I can soak in all the springy goodness. It’s hand hooked polypropylene but even up close it looks and feels more like a hand hooked wool rug than your traditional indoor/outdoor rug.
So for a really affordable price point, you get all the durability and ease of an indoor/outdoor rug with the look of a higher end hooked rug.
It’s perfect for a laundry room, porch, covered patio, but really equally at home in any room in the house because of the look. The quality is so much nicer than most indoor/outdoor rugs I’ve seen.
The rug also comes in another colorway, called Cloud White.
I stayed with the blue and white because I have a couple rolls of Serena & Lily wallpaper I scored at Home Goods a few months ago and plan to use in the laundry room. The blue and white is perfect with the wallpaper.
By the way – this wallpaper is on sale RIGHT NOW for 50% off – $44 a roll!
My plan is to paper the wall you see when you look in from the mudroom, around those glorious windows.
Now…the rest of the laundry room. It is taking an epic squashing of my pride to show you these photos but here’s what else I’m working with.
My big gripe on this side of the room is the colossal waste of space. Do you see how much wall is just staring back at me insolently??
I’m picturing a to-the-ceiling cabinet here – lower shelves for the things I use most often for laundry, upper shelves for storage of less-used items. But I really want everything covered with doors. The dust that collects here is such a problem and who wants to dust their bleach bottles and Oxi Clean boxes? If you raised your hand we probably can’t be friends.
Then there’s the other side of the room. *hangs head in shame*
This is the sink where I rinse painting supplies so I’m sort of picturing this side of the room as a project-center. Not for all my project supplies, but the ones I use most often – drill, paintbrushes, etc. I want to add some doors and drawers to the cubbies below the counter and compartmentalize things so they’re neater and better organized. How I do this still remains to be seen, but I’ve definitely been using this room long enough to see how I need it to function, and this isn’t quite cutting it.
The new rug is an excellent step in the pretty factor direction though. A quick reminder about some of the things that are so great about Payless Rugs, where this rug came from.
- free shipping over $50
- lowest price guarantee
- negotiate your price option
- thousands of rug choices
- easily navigable site
