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A Happy Green Laundry Room

July 21, 2008 By Rhoda 130 Comments

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One of my favorite spaces in the house is my laundryroom just because it’s so darn cute and happy, so I thought y’all might enjoy seeing it all again. I posted it last year when I did the black and white peel and stick tile project here, but didn’t post all that many pics and I have so many new readers now that I doubt you’ve all seen it and I doubt you’ve all read my 145 posts from 2007. This time I went all around the room, so you can see the whole thing. I love this little space and doing laundry isn’t nearly so hard to do now.
Most of this came from my old sunroom and screened porch, so it was easy to come up with gardeny things for this room. And gardens make me happy, so it was a perfect match. You may recognize the bunny weathervane from Target that SO many of us picked up 2 years ago. I had my eye on him for months and finally scored it for about 75% off. That white hanging cabinet was an old pine castoff from my parents that I took and painted, adding the molding to it to dress it up a bit. Wall color is Behr Grasscloth (at Home Depot).
I knew I needed something in here to hang clothes on, so I bought a closet rod from Lowes and painted it black. Added the wooden brackets to the wall and side of the cabinet and figured out the height I would need for it. Works great for hanging up damp clothes.
Those 2 garden prints were a gift from one of my Birmingham friends.
Found the laundry sign at TJ Maxx. Powder laundry detergent is stored in the harlequin box and dryer sheets in the red basket. I put this shelf here to disguise the washer hoses right below. You hardly notice it now.
More garden things on this Homegoods shelf….and bunnies…did I mention bunnies?!
A yardsale frame got a new print to go with the laundryroom.
All of this is from my old porch and sunroom. That’s a decoupaged old window with dried flowers which I found at a yardsale.
Cute birdhouses and topiaries.

Bunnies and plants
This was my old island in my Georgia kitchen and was made from scratch with granite tiles. Note the bunny pulls.
Added this molding to the front of the cabinet to jazz it up a little, as well as crown molding. You would never know this was an old utility room castoff now.
Valance that my mom made for my old screened porch. I used left over fringe from my kitchen window treatment.
A garden rug was a big inspiration for this little room and goes perfectly with the new peel and stick tiles.
One of my blog readers sent me an email recently to let me know that she had used my laundryroom as an inspiration for her redo and used the same colors and similar accessories in there. It turned out SO cute, so go and have a look at Tam’s laundryroom. Hers is in the basement of her home and I think she has done a fantastic job with it all. I love the fabric she chose too, as well as all the little details that pull it all together. Great job, Tam!
Hope you enjoyed the tour and maybe you’ll get some inspiration of your own for a pretty and fun laundryroom. If yours is not big or pretty, look around and see what you can do to improve it. I know there’s something you can do to make this chore easier to do! My old house just had bifold doors for the laundryroom, so this one is huge to me.

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  1. Sarita Leone says

    July 21, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    I love the color!

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  2. duchess says

    July 21, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    I just love your laundry room, especially the bunny weather vane – I have the exact same one on top of a chest in my living room.

    Thanks for the tour.

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  3. Dana says

    July 21, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    To cute, what a great space. I just did my laudry room a few weeks ago and it makes such a huge difference in doing laundry now. I actually think I may be caught up! Thanks for sharing.

    The island is awsome, it is so unique and I love the black and cream mixed. Great Job!

    Many blessings, dana

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  4. Francie of The Scented Cottage says

    July 21, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    I do love your laundry room…you can’t get into mine, sigh.

    (())

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  5. Anonymous says

    July 21, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    This must be the preeties laundry room I have ever seen! Absolutely love it! And of course the bunnies are my favorite. I have tried to search back through, but I don’t remember seeing pictures of your kitchen. Can you post those? If your laundry room is this cute I just can’t imagine what the kitchen looks like!
    Sweet Blessings,
    Margaret

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  6. Smelling Coffee says

    July 21, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    Beautiful ideas! We have the very same peel and stick floor in our laundry room (but still have white walls). I’ll have to re-think the laundry room and make it prettier! Thanks for the inspiration.

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  7. Beverly says

    July 21, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    It looks great, Rhoda. I love the green, and the white and black accentuate perfectly.

    I know how you feel, because I love my laundry room, too.

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  8. Scooterblu's Whimsy says

    July 21, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    What a cheery and fabulous laundry room! I wouldn’t mind laundry so much in here! 🙂 ~Rhonda

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  9. windycorner says

    July 21, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    Now that is a cute laundry room. Black and white floors are hard to beat, that’s something I’d like to have in the kitchen, but I’m afraid to paint the wood.
    Holley

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  10. Picket says

    July 21, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    Girl I loved every inch of this room…I would have to sit alittle chair in there so I could call it my quiet space! lol It’s just so pretty and everywhere your eye falls is just another wow factor..I love that flooring and that green color in there is so fresh and crisp looking like it was made for a laundry room…lots of great inspiration in there girl…thanks for sharing…hope you have had a great day!

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  11. Garage sale gal says

    July 21, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    Oh My, WOW, your laundry room is so swesome. Mine is still in the 70’s and really needs help. We have so many projects that we are working on,it will be awhile. Thanks for some great ideas that I may have to copy 🙂 Love Bunnies 🙂
    Thanks for sharing. Warmly, Deb

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  12. Rosemary says

    July 21, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    I swear Rhoda, I think you have the cutest darn laundry room I have ever seen.
    I would be doing laundry everyday!!
    My washer and dryer are in my garage, so it’s not quite that fun.
    Rosemary

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  13. chelle's winks says

    July 21, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    Stopped by from Susie’s blog…I love the way you took your old treasures along with the new and coordinated things…you inspired me to move to my laundry room next…

    enjoyed all of your blog…

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  14. Jen - Balancing beauty and bedlam says

    July 21, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    oh my goodness…I am just pulling up my cot and cup of Starbucks and living there. Can I? I can squeeze really. I love the green so much I did my great room in it, but my laundry room is depressing. The really bad thing is is that every one comes in through the laundry room. I am hopping to it. I love the molding on the cabinets. I have those cabinets and am doing that pronto.

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  15. Brown-Eyes says

    July 21, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Another darling, cheerful space you have provided for our enjoyment…Love it!
    🙂 Brown-Eyes

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  16. A Hint of Home says

    July 21, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    You don’t mind spending time doing laundry in a room that is so adorable. You did a great job decorating it.

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  17. Layla says

    July 21, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    Fresh and fun….LOVE it Rhoda!

    🙂
    Layla

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  18. Kelly says

    July 21, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Love your sweet laundy room. If my room was big enough, I’d love to steal some of your ideas. By the way, my kitchen is done in the exact same “grasscloth” green color and I have LOVED it for years now. I use black, red, white, gold and brown accent colors with it. I use roosters like you use bunnies. Thanks for sharing!

    Kelly

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  19. jennifer says

    July 21, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    Now if my laundry room looked like that…. actually, my laundry room will NEVER look like that. Who am I kidding?!!

    But Rhoda, it certainly is gorgeous.

    Jen

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  20. sarah @ a beach cottage says

    July 21, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    oh my I should not have come here today, I have this urge to get off my behind and run into my laundry…it is a bad place at the mom, all it needs is some love, just like yours, I love the ‘laundry’ sign, oh it looks so CALM, how come mine is like, errrrr, not calm, lol

    so where are the wetsuits hanging in front of your eyes, the unfolded laundry, the unironed laundry, the un-put-away laundry, the spare freezer and my list goes on and on

    maybe I’ll just go stand in there and look and imagine

    or in face I might do Flylady on it and see what I can achieve in 15 mins

    thanks Rhoda for yet more inspiration, oh and yep I’m with Southerner I am going back to all all your posts.

    l

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