Redecorated Laundry Room With Chandelier, Paint and Pictures
Submitted by Dimples and Tangles
I recently completed redecorating my laundry room, all because of a light. We had a big fluorescent light in there that I really didn’t like. We’ve never changed one of those out in a house before, so we didn’t really know what to expect once we got it down. Thankfully, it was just a regular hole and connections like any other ceiling light fixture. I had purchased an iron chandelier from a thrift store over a year ago thinking my sister might want to use it in her new house but it didn’t work out for her. Yea for me! My plans were to just paint it and have my handsome helper install it, but that started a big snowball rolling for a redo.
One night while my youngest sister was visiting (who is very hip and cool and creative!) I asked for her thoughts on a fun color for the light. At this time, the laundry room was a celery/sagey green that we had painted when we moved in. I really wasn’t planning on re-painting, just spiffing it up a bit. She looked around and said “I’m really loving the navy/coral color combo right now,” and I thought “I am too!” At the time I was seeing some coral on blogs and really liked the bright pop of color. I had nothing like that color combo in my house but the more I thought about it, I decided to go for it! Although I knew I didn’t want a dark navy in such a small, dark room, I love the color that we painted my son’s room and thought it would be perfect. It’s a blue-ish smoky gray which I’m sorry to say I don’t have the name of. I wanted to make this a really fun room and could really do whatever I wanted since it’s totally set apart and didn’t have to blend with the rest of the house.
So, here’s the before shots (after I had already done some clean-up. Why is the laundry room always such a dumping ground? At least for me it is!). Nothing was really connected and I had temporarily clipped that fabric up for a curtain to see if I liked it,
OVER A YEAR AGO!
And the other side:
And, the after!
It’s so nice to just have everything fresh and clean!
Here’s the light that started the ball rolling. Sorry for the bad picture, but I’m still working on my photography skills and it’s really hard to photograph lighting! The color is Behr “Lipstick” and it’s a great bright-orangey coral. I started off by brushing this when I couldn’t find anything close to a coral colored spray paint. It was awful trying to coat all of those arms and twisty iron parts. I finally improvised and gathered up a pump aeresol bottle, watered down my paint pretty thin and sprayed it with the pump. It’s definitely not perfect, but it’s way up on the ceiling and no one can see it up close! My parents’ garage is a treasure trove, and they have a huge box full of a variety of crystal prisms, so I borrowed a few to bling it up. I also covered the candle covers with scrapbook paper, being careful to trim it enough so that the paper wouldn’t touch the bulbs.
I also couldn’t resist these new knobs from Hobby Lobby. How perfect are those?
I painted the sink cabinet base black. Someday we’ll redo that little strip of counter and sink, but it’s usually full of paintbrushes and splatters anyway. The curtain is a scrap ofthisfabric that I had left over from making some pillows. I wanted something colorful to tie together the coral and blue, and you can’t beat free! It is tied up with a few strips of zebra ribbon and hot-glued onto the metal frame of the blinds. I searched around town for a zebra rug but could not find a good one, so I checked Ebay and got a super deal on a great rug.
I LOVE the gallery wall and just stand at the door and stare at all of the pictures. The day I was wrapping up the painting I had to run in to Hobby Lobby and happened upon the 80% off aisle, where I found those awesome black frames with blue polka dots. Could not have been a better fit if I had planned it from the beginning. All of the other frames I had and just sprayed them all black so they would be uniform. I’ll be sharing more details on the gallery wall soon. I think I’ll probably continue it around the rest of the room…it would be great to fill the walls with treasured memories and loving faces.
Backpack/jacket hooks-I’ve had this coat rack for a long time but painted it using a stencil from-you guessed it-Hobby Lobby. My kids are actually using the hooks. Yea! I do enjoy having this side entrance door, but the laundry room was usually too trashed to bring friends through that way. Now it’s so nice to have an inviting entrance for back-door guests. We all know they’re the best anyway, right?
Well, laundry still isn’t too much fun to do, but at least I enjoy my space when I’m washing and folding now!
I am the husband of the amazing Cassity of Remodelaholic. I love to problem solve and to design and build things inside and outside the house to make life better. I am a professional Landscape Architect by trade and love the outdoors.
WOW!!! how fun is that room! and i LOOVE that chandy!
I’m thrilled to be at Remodelaholic today! Thank you so much Justin and Cassity for showing off my laundry room.
Love it!
I absolutely love your laundry room redo!!! It is so much fun and makes me actually want to be in there doing laundry. I love the pops of orange and all the pictures. So great!
I love this, great inspiration… I am excited about the chandelier in the laundry room!!! I am stealing all of these ideas for my laundry room. Again, thanks for the inspiration.
Besos,Lynn
Such a fabulous laundry room, I love that it’s not only gorgeous, but so functional! I’d be more than delighted to fold clothes in there, actually I’d be happy to eat lunch in there! Great job, Jennifer!!
How cute is that! All those smiling faces almost make me want to come and do laundry for you. Almost I said!
~Bliss~
Love it! Such personality. Now it looks like a really fun and awesome family lives there 🙂
Very pretty!!!
Just fabulous, I love the chandy painted coral…great job on your laundry room!
That is truly lovely. I might even enjoy doing laundry with a space like that. The chandelier is most awesome!
Woooooooooooow. I’m thrilled you were able to make a space you love.
I love your laundry room. You put things together that I would have never thought of and it looks great. Thanks for the blog.
This is awesome! I love love the Orange and the animal print- truly beautiful together!!!
~Jen @ hutchinsonherd.blogspot.com
This is fantastic, I love the new wall color. And all the pops of colors throughout are fantastic. But my favorite part is the hand painted artwork.
I found this blog while doing a google search of painted chandeliers – specifically painted in navy. I’m not sure why I was brought to your blog but I thought I’d take a look because the colour scheme I am using in my living room includes navy and coral as well! Anyways – I couldn’t resist commenting because I have purchased curtain fabric that happens to be exactly the fabric you have used! It made me happy to see it because I can now see how awesome it looks!
I love what you have done with the room – and the coral chandelier looks amazing 🙂
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