Yesterday, I started work on the laundry room. It’s a small room between the garage and kitchen with a backdoor, window, huge cabinet, and of course the washer and dryer. The floor, like the kitchen, is vinyl laminate glued down. This is the first room I see when I come home. The window faces the backyard and has a good view of a couple of garden beds.
The walls are texture similarly to the hallway. The walls are the same color as the kitchen. Like most of the house the vinyl laminate doesn’t exactly meet the wall. The backdoor seems to be a hollow interior door that used to also contain a screen door. It’s not a bad room, but a little beat up and sloppily finished.
The plan is to sand the walls similar to the hallway and paint it the same yellow color. Rip the trim boards out and install new ones. They are cheap and Christopher showed me how to do them easily when we did the Yoga room. Quarter round or shoe molding will cover the gap of the flooring. The cabinet will be a second color, perhaps matching the upper bedroom color. This keeps the two tone pattern of the other remodeled rooms. Finally, the backdoor will be replaced with a steel external door.
Right now, the washer and dryer are moved out and I’m removed the 3-5 layers of contact paper they put down in the cabinet. After that it’s tape and prime. For the door, I was thinking of buying one and having it installed so I could see how it’s done.