Hi! I’m Jaimie and welcome to my little corner of the internet. I am so excited to use this blog my ‘diary’ about our new house and all the ways we are going to turn it into our home. The next few blog posts will be about our laundry room, which is the first big project we’ve taken on since moving in this past August.
The backstory of our new beginning
We found out in November of 2019 that we were pregnant with twins. I can still see the look on the technicians face and hear her voice when she said that we were having two babies. A flood of emotions ran through me – happiness, shock, excitement, as well as a flood of happy tears. We were having 2 babies which meant our family of 3 would quickly be turning into a family of 5 in less than a year.
We went forward with creating a nursery for the twins, at that point I was six months pregnant and little did we know the babies would be making their debut into the world at 34 weeks + 4 days.
I remember sitting on the floor in nursery after my husband set up both cribs, turning to him and saying “we’re going to need a bigger house.” We both laughed and brushed it off at first, but later on that night we decided it was time to start house hunting sooner than later. Our old house was our first home together, and while it fit two dogs, us and a toddler well, the addition of two small babies made things feel overwhelmingly tight in our house.
My in laws had long been talking about moving out of state & had previously asked everyone in the family if anyone would be interested in purchasing their home. At the time, it wasn’t something that we wanted to commit to as we were still working on our first home and we only had one child at the time. My husband approached his parents and asked if they were still interested in selling their home, and if so, would they be willing to sell it to us. We were lucky enough for them to say yes and now here we are… three children, two dogs and ready to tackle a ton of renovations to turn my husbands’ childhood home into our family home.
Taking on our first project
Our current house is a split level design which gives guests two areas to come in through our home, the front door or the garage. We usually enter the house through the garage and into our mud room which also serves as our laundry area. We decided to make this room our first project since this is the first room someone enters after coming through the garage.
I started scouring Pinterest for some inspiration for the design of this space. We knew we wanted this room to be pretty as well as functional, so we came up with a list of things that we’d like to change while trying to follow a decent budget:
- Paint the walls, trim, door, and window
- Change the flooring
- Change out the slop sink
- Remove all shelving
- Remove particle board behind the washer and dryer
- Add storage
- Add board and batten to one of the walls
While we would love to replace the washer and dryer, it is just not in our budget right now. Hopefully down the road we will be able to purchase a front loading washer and dryer & add a tabletop to them for folding laundry.
With all this in mind and inspiration from Pinterest, I put together this mood board to help our design come to life.
The laundry room is 99.9% complete and I cannot wait to share the final pictures with you!
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