Nearly a Laundry

Our upstairs laundry hasn't had much air time on this blog.

When we first moved in to this house, the room we're now calling the laundry was actually just a corridor with a crummy built-in linen closet that led to our disgusting and dingy old bathroom.

And we just jammed the washing machine in the corner there (so you had to hug it as you rounded the corner toward the bathroom) so that we could wash our clothes.

But once we destroyed the dingy old bathroom and the linen closet, this corridor room actually got to edge closer toward truly becoming a laundry. Although it had to share that purpose with that of general storage area for miscellaneous household items... i.e. junk.

And then, as the tiler started making progress with the downstairs bathroom and the ensuite, we realised that it was finally time to focus a bit of love and care on the laundry.

So the back wall was closed in...

The waterproofers came and waterproofed the floor...

And we slapped some paint on the walls and ceiling (after first scraping all of the existing paint off the ceiling - always a joyous task).

So what was next, you ask? Tiling!!!

And because it's such a tiny room, with no need for a floor waste or a sloping floor, it went from un-tiled to tiled in what felt like seconds! Oh the wonders of paying a professional to do the work!

There is unfortunately still very little to hint that the room is in fact a laundry, but it's one step at a time round here, ok?

And one step we will have to get to eventually is putting up a skirting board around the edge where the tiles meet the wall, since you can still see the waterproofing underneath the paint and it's not very pretty. I could have got the tiler to put a little tile skirt around the edge there, but I thought that a timber skirting board would fit the house and those timber walls a bit better.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves. I think I can safely say that that skirting board won't go up particularly soon. I'm much more interested in getting some cabinetry and a sink and a working washing machine in there again! Not precisely in that order. After all, a girl's got to do her laundry!

In the meantime though, I'm happy to celebrate this little transformation. It's hard to believe it took us two years!