The room was too large for a downstairs cloakroom so using some of the old kitchen units and adding a new worktop, we made it into a cloakroom/utility room. Finished pics will follow.
The Laundry bins are from amazon and are collapsible if you don’t want them out. I got 2 of them (one for darks and one for lights) and they are so easy to carry around the house collecting washing (which is endless)!
The struggle of aesthetics verses practicality is real when designing this area. All the laundry stuff needs to be available to hand but with a little one, it must be safely out of sight and reach, whilst being accessible easily. Remember too, this is the guest cloakroom so needs to be tidy at least and stylish (hopefully) at best.
In trying to find storage solutions for the laundry room, I stumbled across these lovely Dunelm tins which come with lovely little scoops for the washing powder and a practical utility holder (not figured out what to use this for but it matched and was cute so got it too!)
We were not able to change all of the flooring in the new place so we have to live with the existing laminate (which now has a slightly orange tinge to it). So by adding a rug in a lovely soft neutral shade, just breaks up the floor and makes the room feel soft and warm.
Next, what to do with the walls??? I love a wallpaper but perhaps just a feature wall. Currently the room is just grey (we Farrow and Ball’ed the place just to neutralise it) but, whist it’s a classic, just grey is a bit boring. Still on the hunt for papers, the following are my favourites so far…
Come back and see the finished room soon…x
Angel Muse 