With not a lot of spare money at the moment our house renovation has been sort of left three quarters finished. One of the areas not yet completed is the laundry. I’m embarrassed to say that I stupidly let the fact it wasn’t finished be this huge burden in my mind rather than just face up to reality and get on with doing something to make the room more useable. A few weeks ago the light bulb finally went off in my brain and I spent the afternoon tidying up the laundry which had become a dumping ground for everything. I found some colourful plastic cubes in the garage that we had used in the old house and these now neatly hold the dirty rags, clean rags etc. I resurrected a tall formica bookcase that my hubby had tried to get me to throw out before the renovation – it is perfect for holding all the various laundry things. Another small formica bookcase (also from the garage!) has made a great place for growing plants and seedlings as my laundry is a sun trap. Three week later I still love walking into my ‘new’ laundry and I’m even happy to leave the door open for visitors to be able to look in. It didn’t cost me a cent to improve my laundry – all I had to do was take off my “If only….” blinkers and use what I already owned.
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