Our washer went up in smoke in November. We pulled it out to get ready to have a new one delivered and Himself said, "Girl." "Girl! The wallpaper has to go." It is unstuck from the wall. Girl said "No, no! I want it!" But after looking the situation over and finding that, indeed, the 30-year old paper was at the end of its life, the "I love my laundry room" wallpaper went.
The big old enamel topped sink went too. It took up the back corner of the laundry room for 35 years and was never hooked to water that I know of. So it is out and will be repurposed at the cabin! What a clever plan! And removal of that sink caused me to clean out corners and Himself to take out shelves precariously hung and balanced. Removal of all that let us hang a bracket for the iron and ironing board and made for a better corner for the vacuum sweeper.
Hollyhock Green Pittsburg paint replaced the old wallpaper. The photo above does NOT do the Hollyhock justice. It is so cheery and pretty!
I love looking at our jars of home-canned tomatoes and pickles.
There's nothing prettier; Himself did these all on his own.
We have three double-door cupboards hanging above our washer and dryer so there is still plenty of storage.
Who needs a pencil sharpener? I have to warn you, it is an old-fashioned manual sharpener. Himself gifted us with a new electric sharpener a few years back. This manual crank might be obsolete but on the other hand you could say to a child "when I went to school, this is what we had to use!"
If we weren't so honest (gosh darn, dang it!) we could have had a second washer just like this. I'm sure it would have caught up to us tho and we would have been billed for it.
We ordered a washer on line, the Des Moines store didn't have it but the store across town did have one. The second store said they had to cancel the first ordered washer in order to charge us for the second ordered washer. OK. Fair Enough.
We got credit for the first credit card charge and copies of all the paper work. The second store delivered and installed a washer. We are up and running!
Two weeks later, the first store called and said "we will deliver your washer tomorrow". Hmmm. Okay. We slept on that . . . and then Himself called the first store the next day and said, "uh, don't deliver that washer. We already have one." It was the right thing to do, of course . . . just tempting!
We are not done with the Laundry Room. We still need to move all my clothes out of the shelving system on the other side of the room and paint the rest of the walls. Maybe we will get that done now, with Christmas and New Years behind us.
Happy New Year!
3 comments:
I love it! And we need that old fashioned pencil sharpener! We installed one at Montgomery st and forgot to take it with us. We loved that pencil sharpener!
oh and good for you for not having that 2nd washer delivered. . . I always worry that karma will come back and bite me in the butt if I do something like that!!
we will get that pencil sharpener down for you. Of course, I probably should get Maddie an electric one for her office : ) There was never any doubt that we would stop delivery of the 2nd washer . . .but there's always that first ah ha moment.
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