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February 29, 2016

ROOM TOUR: LAUNDRY ROOM + MINTED ART

I finally finished my laundry room!! This project was my baby. The project that my husband definitely didn’t understand at first but who now thinks it’s the best room in the house! Anyone else feel like they spend half of their life in the laundry room? Well I did, and mine was a sparse, sad, blah, beige room with no window. Luckily I was able to bring the outdoors in with a partnership with MINTED! Their art became my own little window.

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We LOVE Minted! Their art is curated from independent artists which is SO cool. Minted prints the art in every size and even frames it for you. It’s incredibly easy to pick your art. You can search by color, style, medium, theme, etc. and make an art board to just try out the pieces you like together. I wanted cheery pieces with bright greens, pinks, and yellows. A mix of photography, paint, and prints give the gallery wall an eclectic look, but the color palette keeps it cohesive.

I chose standard art paper, and I opted to have the artists’ signatures on the prints. The frames are all Natural Premium Wood to give the room a little warmth.

I got the cabinets and countertop from The Home Depot, who installed it as well. If there’s one thing we’re not, it’s handy. I wanted a totally clear counter for folding and drying but for some ease I have one basket for detergent and dryer sheets. Everything else is stowed away in the cabinets.

This was a robe/coat hanger that was peeeeerfect for the ironing board and other drying items! It’s always good to think outside the box and look for pieces that have multiple uses.

I had my (very confused) handyman instal an L-shaped pipe in the wall to use as hanging space. It gives it an industrial look that I wanted and takes up no space so that I have full hanging for dresses, shirts, sheets, etc.

I got these soft baskets to transport clean clothes. I’m a little OCD and using the same basket for dirty and clean clothes is not an option. No no no no no. Scroll down to see where the dirty clothes hide!

The sink is clutch in a laundry room. Eventually I’d like to get a sprayer faucet…more OCD tendencies here.

One of my favorite parts of the laundry room are the hidden laundry baskets in the drawers! It is not okay in my book to mix dirty and clean clothes in the same basket. #issues. I had my handy man convert two cabinets closest to the mudroom to pull-out drawers. I found narrow trash bins for the dirty clothes! Even my kids like to put their clothes in there.. they think the secret bins are cool. Anything to help out, right?

LINKS:

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Striped Laundry Baskets

Wire Laundry Basket

Wooden Hangers

WASH wall letters

Trash bins used for dirty clothes

MINTED ART LINKS left to right:

Landscape, 11 x 11″

Abstract, 18 x 24″

Glass Bottles, 11 x 14″

Hexagons, 11 x 14″

Green Woodshed, 16 x 16″

My little “window” in my laundry room! If anyone needs me, I’ll be hiding in here 🙂

-L

February 16, 2015

FEATURED: DEVAN’S WINTER WOODLAND NURSERY

She did it again! Our dear friend Shara (remember her Shark Party HERE?!) is blowing our minds with her son’s dreamy gray and aqua nursery. It is styled. to. perfection. We’ve been ~~stalking~~ gently convincing her to let us show her whole house! One day, Shara, one day…. mwahahahaha!

SHARA:

When I was pregnant with my second, I was so sure I was having a girl that I went ahead and bought crib bedding and started planning out a perfect baby girl nursery. I was just SURE. Halfway through my pregnancy at the big ultrasound, the tech waved her magic wand, paused, and then asked me if I still had the receipt for that bedding… I was having another boy! I was shocked and kind of in denial, so I decided I didn’t need to do up another room for baby boy – he would just share a room with his big brother once he was old enough to move out of the bassinet in my room.

Fast forward to a month before my due date. The urge to nest suddenly kicked in haaaaaaard and I just HAD to have a nursery. Jenni had thrown me the most perfect “snowy sprinkle” baby shower (see it HERE), and I worked from that idea to create a gender-neutral winter woodland nursery. The room was already painted grey (Valspar’s “Cement”), so I left it as is and used that as my starting point. Anyone who has been to my house knows how much I love the color aqua, so I (unsurprisingly) decided on a grey/aqua/white color theme, accented by warmer tones here and there to keep it from being too matchy-matchy or cold. It took more than a year to finish up the room – I had my hands kind of full with two little ones! – but I think that the extra time allowed the room to evolve into something even better than I had originally visualized. Now it’s one of my favorite rooms in the house!

PS. I never did return that girly bedding… it’s packed away carefully in hopes that maybe one day my pretty pink nursery will become a reality 😉

SOURCES:

Tree decals – WallDecorative

Arrows – Mineral and Matter

Feather mobile – DIY

Dreamcatchers – DIY

Crib – Babyletto “Hudson”

Bedding – skirt from Land of Nod, sheet & chevron knit throw from Target

Aqua book cart – Land of Nod

Rocking moose – Ikea

Chair and ottoman – Little Castle “Charleston”

Polar bear blanket – Land of Nod

Polar bear “skin” – eBay

Lamps – Target

Squirrel nightlight – Modcloth

Tree wood bead puzzle – Skip Hop

Bird mobile – Boon

Changing pad cover – Land of Nod

Curtains – Amazon (blackout lining added DIY)

Dresser, end table, book ledges – Ikea

“Things” organizer – Land of Nod

Grizzly bear wood block calendar – West Elm

Fox, raccoon and owl art – Sass and Peril

Antlers – White Faux Taxidermy

Clock – Target

Rocking bird – West Elm

Ceramic fox figurine and white fox speaker – Target

Moon globe – Urban Outfitters

Marquee arrow light – Target

Forest Love screen print – Sass and Peril
Young & Brave print – Billy and Scarlet
Paper deer – Template from French Melody
Name letters – DIY
Woven baskets – Walmart, spray painted teal
Owl vase – Target

December 23, 2013

MAX’S NAVY AND GOLD NURSERY

Very excited to show you all Max’s nursery! I had so much fun finding little details to personalize the room. Max loves looking at all of the animal-themed artwork and the shiny gold details, and I love the cozy retreat from the chaos of toddler-world.