Parade of Homes 2021 : Kitchen and Dining Rooms * Laundry * Mud Rooms * Pantry ideas
22 September 2021
Hello! Look at these beautiful kitchens, pantries, laundry room, and mud rooms for new build or remodeling ideas. These were all featured in the 2021 Utah Valley Parade of Homes and were taken on my phone camera so they aren't the best but will help with your planning and dreaming.
Hello! Tis the season for end of school and graduations. The local women’s organization at my church (called the Relief Society) puts together some baskets for the graduating seniors filled with useful things for their dorms and apartments as they leave the nest. I always sign up for stain remover because this truly is the best, I haven’t found anything that works better and it is so simple to make!
The Dollar Tree had these cute aluminum spray bottles in the hair section. Don’t they always come through?? (* update on these spray bottles – some of them were fine, but others leaked! They are cute but you may want to go with different ones for durability, any spray bottle will work!)
Just fill them up 1/3 of the way with blue Dawn dish detergent and fill the rest with hydrogen peroxide and then I give it a good stir with a bamboo skewer. I’m not sure why it has to be blue Dawn but I’ve never questioned it because it works. I wouldn’t go with anything else.
Then I typed up a printable -- here is the link to the printable 4 to a page and the link to the printable 9 to a page. Feel free to print and use for yourself!
I cut them out ( I printed out one sheet of the nine to a page but only used six to leave more space for cutting) and laminated them with my handy dandy laminator that we got YEARS ago on an Amazon special – I have loved that little investment!
And just hole punched it and tied it to the bottle with a ribbon. It’s a perfect size to leave by the laundry to treat stains and a fun gift for a friend or someone heading out on their own for the first time.
If you haven’t tried it, I think you’ll love it!! ♥
I usually don’t fold laundry in my laundry room. I bring our laundry (me & my husband’s) out to the kitchen table and fold while I watch something or when the kids get home and they are buzzing around practicing or doing homework. For my kids, each has a different laundry day and I wash it for them during the day. When they come home, they take it to their room to fold. That’s our laundry system! So I didn’t need/want a huge laundry room because I really don’t spend too much time in there.
Anyway! I don’t know if you wanted to know all of that! Back to the room: I typed up a favorite quote, sent it to Staples and had it printed on an 18X24 print for $2. Then I found these great huge frames at Michaels (back in August, I really do take forever on projects) for $12.99! They still sell them and you can watch for a great sale.
On the one side is a soaking sink and then a counter over where the washer and dryer go. This is looking in from the mudroom:
Like me, you may have lots to do today coming off of a holiday weekend.
{sigh} But what if you left the dirty dishes…
I measured to fit the inside of the cabinets (I would leave a little room on the edges because it seems to expand a tiny bit when it gets wet)
This worked wonderfully, because the holes that were drilled were not the size I needed, so I just papered right over them:
I just got them wet for about 30 seconds in the sink, let them sit for a few minutes (I guess it's called booking??) and then flattened them out onto the cabinet (I didn't even prime or sand the cabinet before papering) and smoothed them out with my hands. No special tools required! I let them dry overnight,
The next day, I primed them, then painted them Rustoleum Heirloom White (you can buy it in the quart cans next to the spray paint at Home Depot) with a roller brush. Spray paint would work too, but I had this left over from my hall cabinets:
Poked the knob through the bottom hole, put the hardware back on, and there we have it! Simple, painless, and beautiful! It gives the cabinets such a custom look:
A few notes:
Lowes has some paintable wallpaper, but in my opinion it doesn't look like real beadboard. I had it in my project pile to use, then I saw Rhoda's and the wall doctor stuff looks so much better. Back to Lowes it went! Spend the extra ten dollars on the Wall Doctor brand wallpaper. I got mine from the Home Depot, but you can also get it at Graham & Brown.
Some of you have asked about using it in high traffic areas, or on kitchen cabinets, and I would hesitate because it's kind of a foamy texture that hardens up a bit when you paint, but look what my nail can still do to it
I have pictures of my boys running their cars over it and decided it wouldn't do well in our kitchen...
BUT think of the other possiblities: look at what moonkat99 over at the Garden Web forums did to her ceiling, y'all! It's gorgeous!
Here it is before:
And after: who would ever know it's wallpaper??
I've got a few more projects in mind for my big ol' roll of leftover wallpaper :)
It's DIY day over at Kimba's!
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