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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. Mrs. Goodson...Woo Hoo!! says

    June 19, 2009 at 4:55 am

    Holy Cow you have a nice laundry room…..I love to do laundry & would never come out of that room!!

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  2. Sandy says

    June 19, 2009 at 9:59 am

    LOVED the tour! Such inspiration!

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  3. ButterYum says

    June 19, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    This has got to be one of the cutest laundry rooms I've ever seen. I absolutely love it!

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  4. Kimberly says

    June 19, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    LOVE THE GREEN ON THE WALLS AND THE BLACK AND WHITE TILES! I AM A SUCKER FOR BLACK AND WHITE… JUST MAKES ALL OTHER COLORS POP! YOUR LAUNDRY ROOM IS BEAUTIFUL! THANKS FOR SHARING!

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  5. McClure Family says

    June 19, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    ummmmm…. wow. YOU.ARE.AMAZING! that is THE cutest LR i have ever seen! wow, just wow!

    see my home:
    http://mcclurefamilyspace.blogspot.com/

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  6. melissa says

    July 10, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    Rhoda~help! I'm about ready to pee my pants! I got the grasscloth and it is looking neon in my laundry room~Did you gasp when you first started painting, or do you think it's because of my lighting? It's scaring me~any advice??

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  7. sandra@romantiqueinspirations says

    July 27, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    I’m crazy about your laundry room. I have to say I have the same colors in mine along with some pinks.. The sign is something I could really use in my room. Thanks for sharing!

    Enjoy your day-

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  8. Lauren Liess says

    August 12, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    beautiful!!! !! oh my gosh love it

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  9. Sarah says

    August 13, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    I love it. All the details are awesome. My laundry room is so plain but I’d love to add a chandelier to the room! LOL

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  10. Jan says

    September 5, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    I love this laundry room, and it’s an inspiration for the one I’m creating as part of a kitchen/den/laundry remodel. What type of lighting do you have?

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  11. mary-clare says

    September 11, 2009 at 10:47 am

    love the look of this room! great job ..I would love to redo mine it is a disaster room with a capital “D”.. I need to get the measurements and some pictures and hire you for a consult on the project..

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  12. Jill says

    September 11, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    Discovered your blog recently- my new fav!! You inspired me to do my laundry area over… check it out! So happy with results- thanks!!

    http://my50acres.blogspot.com/2009/09/mini-laundry-make-over.html

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  13. Emma says

    September 28, 2009 at 9:50 am

    hate the colour.

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  14. deb says

    January 10, 2010 at 6:40 pm

    I am very impressed as your laundry room looks 100 times better than my home.

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  15. Madeline says

    March 22, 2010 at 8:43 am

    I’m in LOVE with your laundry room! So many beautiful things to look at! Wonderful job 🙂

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  16. Shelle says

    May 25, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    I LOVE, love, love this!! And you’re soooo right! Our cabinets are almost identical.
    Our laundry rooms are both green, too. 🙂

    Thank you for sharing this with me. I love your style and hope to one day learn my own. ***pppfffttt***

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  17. Carrie says

    June 4, 2010 at 8:57 pm

    I have been looking for a color to paint my piano studio. My floor is black and white checkered and I came across your laundry room and fell in love with the green on the walls…would you be willing to share the brand of paint and name of the color you used?
    You have the prettiest laundry room I have ever seen…maybe you can come to Iowa and decorate my piano studio for me!!!

    Thanks…Carrie

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