Laundry Room Reveal

My challenge was to do this little room under $50.  

My "design dilemmas" were: 

1.} High traffic area

2.} Needed room for laundry baskets

3.} Needed organization 

4.} Needed some color

Here's the very real "before" shot...



And here's the "after"!!!







I recovered a pink polka dot bin and made it into that canvas one on the right.  It holds all our mismatched socks.  The scarf is covering an outlet. :-)  And the handmade linen bag is made out of old Banana Republic pants and is hiding my Shout stain remover that I use oh-so-often.

My solution to the hampers. Wal Mart finds...not my favorite, but they fixed our doors-bumping-into-hampers-issue!

Love these hooks I screwed in...they also came from wally world for under $4.

Laundry sign tutorial found here.

Some texture. :-)

I'm a wannabe-gardener so I wanted the laundry room to have a mud room feel with gardening supplies.  I could've bought some more rusticy ones I liked better, but I just pulled some stuff from the garage to save money.  There's all sorts of treasures lurking in your garage, so go root through!!! 

Antique finds from a yard sale for only a few dollars.

My detergent has found a home! I made those labels using chalkboard paint on card stock and then just roughed it up a little with some white chalk from Hobby Lobby.  Easy peasy!

Breakdown of costs:

Hardware = 6.78

Paint and Brushes = $11

Laundry Baskets = $11

Detergent Canister = $3.60

Antiques = $6

Total = $31.18!!!

I have lots of recipes back-logging in my post files so get ready to get your cooking and baking game on next week!

Does this photo get your mouth watering???