Finally Finished another room!

 Hello again.  I just wanted to take a minute and show off my new laundry room.  It's not a new addition; just a revamp of the old.  I've been looking at this same laundry room for almost 30 years.  Aside from having new floors put in last year due to water damage; nothing else has been done to it.  That changed this past week.  

This is the after.  I wish I'd taken time to get a before picture, but I didn't.  Sorry.  Think dreary, aged wall board original to the mobile home.  The pattern had faded and the wall board had yellowed with age.  The cabinets, also original, were dark cherry colored and had no shelf, except the floor of the cabinet.  I had no other storage between the washer/dryer, and cabinet.  Still need to replace the side door, but that will be, hopefully the end of September beginning of October.

We had to have our AC changed out last month.  It was a must do.  Our power bill last month was $682, because the unit we had couldn't handle temps over 85.  We've dealt with that every summer for the past 24 years, but never could afford an alternative.  This year we ended up having to change it out, so spent what we were going to spend on converting the back deck to a screened in porch to replacing the AC.  So we've put off the screened in porch until March/April we hope.  Because we had a total change out of the AC, or I should say heat and AC, we had space in the laundry room where the old indoor unit had been.  Our new unit is under the house.  This new space became a broom closet; taking all of my floor cleaning and dusting stuff out of the laundry room area and into this new "broom closet.  I did the conversion, such as it is.  It's no where near professional, but it works for now.  It just needed to have the duct hole covered so the cats won't go down it, and be set apart from the water heater.  I'm proud to say, and you can probably tell, that I used materials I already had on hand.  I had the paint, but not the primer, so the primer was purchased.

Last but not least is my area above the freezer.  I neglected to mention that I added shelves to the cabinets over the washer/dryer.  This allowed me to store a huge amount of things I had sitting on these shelves.  Now these shelves are for my canning equipment.  That rather old looking canner at the top was my grandmothers.  I can't use it anymore; although I did use it for a long time.  The base is cracking and so it isn't safe to be put under pressure.  You can read the story about that canner here.

While the rest of my house has gone to rack and ruin, I have to say I love, love, love this room!  I think I've over done a little with my left wrist, so am taking it easy on projects for today, but come tomorrow I think I'm headed into the kitchen!  I'm going to try out doing a back splash!  We'll see how industrious I get.  Any tips on that?