Okay, okay, so technically it's a laundry closet but room just sounds nicer. I can't wait to have a laundry room someday...but you get what you get and you don't throw a fit, right?
Anyway,
I was really excited to do some no cost decorating and prove to Sean
that you don't have to spend any money to improve things and make them
prettier. I knew that I would have to start small
so I took one look at my laundry closet and definitely saw that it
needed a re-do. It was dusty and full of boxes and junk. NOT very
pretty hence the reason for no before pictures...too embarrassing!
In order to do this I basically went around my house and found a bunch
of things that I already had and that were looking to be repurposed.
Here's what I found:- the 3 glass jars
- the washboard
- the clothespins
- the white wicker thing?
- the picture frame
- the wreath
- the tin bucket
- an old canvas
- some leftover burlap from anther project
After that I knew that I wanted to add some type of "laundry art" that I could just print off. This lead me to The Graphics Fairy. Holy cow! I was instantly obsessed with all the images she has! You'll be lucky to find something that she doesn't have. If you need instant art for your home definitely take a look! There I found the cute laundry brushes that I put into the small frame. Cute and free? I'll take it!
Later on I had an idea to cover an old canvas with burlap and hang a picture from it. I found the blue Laundry print off of Sprik Space.
She recreated a print that I have always loved from Ballard Designs and
I got it for free! SCORE! She has tons of different colors too which
makes it even better! Check out her other cute free printables too!
So after I got all of this stuff together I knew that the space needed more.
It was just lacking. In comes the $$. Dang it! Oh well. I had seen
on a couple of blogs some really cool bottles and I knew just the place I
could find them! Sunflower Market! They have tons of different yummy
sparkling lemonades and they are around $3 a piece. I of course needed 3
so there went $10. We drank up and then the Mr. helped take off the
labels.
The room was almost
complete. It needed something special. It needed a SIGN. If you have
been in my house you know that I really like SIGN's. I can't help it.
They make me happy. So off Hattie and I went to SIGN Heaven (Hobby Lobby)
and we found the perfect one! And guess what?! It was the last one
left and 50% off! BOOYA! $3.75 for that little beauty and the room
err...I mean closet was D-O-N-E.
Here she is in all her glory! Haha!
So
no, I did not succeed in NO cost decorating but in our house if it's
$20 or less it's considered nothing (because when can you EVER find anything that is less than $20 these days?! Seriously.) So there :)You can see the rest of our home tours here:
Living Room
Dining Room
Master Bedroom
Girls' Room
Girls' Bathroom
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