Comments on: Full Laundry Makeover With 4 Simple Things

By: fran

fran — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:34:48 +0000

LOVE that your hubby loves doing the laundry. My husband enjoys it as well and I thought that I was alone in having a wonderfully strange anomaly of a husband. But I refuse to get in the way of his laundry destiny. I just stumbled upon your blog, you have a beautiful home (both of them). Looking forward to more “progress”! :)

By: Amanda Jones

Amanda Jones — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:10:24 +0000

Thank you SO much for sharing all your ideas and photos! It makes the thought of tackling our own home projects FAR less frighhtening knowing someone else has “been there”!

Even my husband is hooked on reading the pages regarding DIY, projects, installs, and he’s so NOT that person…he’s very mich into “I know what I’m doing and I need NO advice! SO glad we found you..ha ha! YAY!

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:16:07 +0000

In reply to Stephanie.

I vaguely remember buying this thing from Home Depot that has a super long arm that reaches far back into the tube and cleans it! Hope it helps.

xo,
s

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:33:24 +0000

So I know this is a way old post now, but I’m curious about how you cleaned your dryer vent in your old house. It sounds like our situation is similar to yours, our dryer is in the center of the house and has the vent run through the floor to the outside of the house, so around 18 feet. We just bought the house and are venturing into cleaning the vent for the first time and we’re curious about how you guys did it, or if you paid for professionals.

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:33:14 +0000

In reply to Stacey.

Oh man- so sorry! But you’re right about gaining experience! And at least you can laugh about it… someday!

xo,
s

By: Stacey

Stacey — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:00:28 +0000

I hope this makes you giggle! I adore this makeover and have taken similar steps to implement it in our laundry (which is little more than a tall, narrow, deep, waste-of-space corner in our kitchen). First; I found some cute, laundry-appropriate wrapping paper to inspire the project. We measured up for shelves and off we went to Builder’s Express to equip ourselves with timber, sand paper, wood primer, eggshell enamel paint, new paint brushes and rollers, etc. The only single piece of timber large enough to accommodate the dimensions of our shelves (we were not about to start screwing smaller pieces of wood together)was a board used by contractors to shore deep trench excavations! After returning on Monday (Builder’s don’t cut on Sundays) to purchase our two shelves and three MASSIVE offcuts we sanded, primed, sanded again (damn cheap wood!), primed again, and painted twice over a series of weekends (the only time we have for DIY). After our first shelf was completely dry we squeezed it (with millimetres to spare) into the space to form the counter top over our combo-washer/dryer. We stepped back to admire our handiwork AND. . . we have a beautifully painted offcut which is far too long to function effectively! I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry! It had occurred to me to remeasure the boards before painting but we were just so eager to get started on our first DIY project! Oh well; at least I’ve gained some wood painting experience! Maybe after a few more weekends (since I have other plans for the painted offcut and we’ll have to start the whole sand, prime, paint sequence again) we’ll be able to send you some before and after pics. In the meantime, my cute framed wrapping paper has been shoved down the side of the machine! What is it that John always says about measuring twice? Perhaps it should be “Measure thrice!”

By: Krista

Krista — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:11:58 +0000

Thanks for the inspiration! I ended up buying Roman shades to cover the open display of chemicals in my laundry room. That little splash of color is great and adds quite a lot to a little tidy room.

By: fd

fd — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:18:02 +0000

bah! I have laundry caddy envy! I’ve looked high and low for one in our little city in northern France. Am considering trying to make one at this point. Its the perfect solution for our storage issues, so thanks for the inspiration!