A Peak into Our Mudroom / Laundry / Pantry / DUNGEON!

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Yep, it really is a dungeon.  Not only does it not have any windows, it also has the light burned out in one of the overheads.  AND it has a hideous color on the walls AND the ceiling.  What am I talking about?  I’m talking about our laundry room, which is also our back mud room and our pantry as well.  Oh my gosh I’m kinda scared to show you these pictures…

Do you see what I mean.  These pictures were obviously taken with basically no natural light, uh, since there isn’t any in there.  Also, you can see the light that is out…

Ugh, notice the painted ceiling.  Who does that!?  It’s like a cave!  You can also see that the space is very small.  The door to the room is off to the side, so it’s hard to take pictures of the space.  However, you get the idea.  Small, cluttered, stuff everywhere, yea that’s what’s goin’ on right now.  I didn’t clean up at all for these pictures so it is what it is.

This space is also our pantry.  We don’t have a pantry in the kitchen, so we added this large shelf from Target to the room to hold food-stuffs & also a lot of our small kitchen gadgets.

But don’t worry!  I have so many plans for this space!  First of all, that ceiling is going to be painted WHITE, and obviously, the light bulb in the one light fixture will be replaced.  Then, I really want to paint stripes in here.  Like these

I’ll have to empty the whole room out to do this, which is a good thing!  My shelves need some organizing.  I’d love for my “pantry” to look more like this

I will totally be hitting up the dollar store for some pretty containers to help with organizing that area!

We also store all of our cleaning supplies in this room, including our vacuum & steam mop.  They are currently kinda all over the place, but for these, I plan on building a cleaning closet to put up against the wall to hold all of those cleaning things.  It will contain a big area for the vacuum, plus lots of little shelves & hooks for all of those extra cleaning supplies.  I have found a few online that I like the look of, that I’ll likely base my design off of.  Ones like this

Or this

Lastly, we also store our recycling, bottles for return, and dog food all in this space.  So much stuff, so little space!  See why I need some major organizing solutions?  Don’t worry though Ana White has me covered!  I’ll build one of these for recycling & bottles

And one of these for the dog food

Can you picture it.  Think of my little space all organized with these items… I can see it!  It will look so much brighter & cleaner!

I’m sure this project will take me a while.  Since racing season has started I’ve been a lot slower because I rarely have a day off work to get things done.  Plus, I still have one pretty big project to do in the master bedroom before I can get started on this.  But, it’ll get done eventually & I’m pretty excited about all of the ideas I have planned.  Are you planning any major room overhauls this summer?

I’m linking this post up to Mandi’s Fearlessly Finding Awesome Challenge on Vintage Revivals.

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