Let's face it! Getting your clothes clean can be very time-consuming and usually ends up at the bottom of your list of things to-do. The average family does around 400 loads of laundry each year — which is a whole lot of time spent in the laundry room! Doing laundry doesn't have to be at the bottom of your to-do list any longer. With products like Tide and Maytag, and a functional, well-designed space, you can get clothes clean in one wash and have more time to spend with your family.
What a 'pile' of mess, right? The Home Depot is your one-stop shop for finding everything you need for your messy laundry room, including great cleaning products, appliance, organizing, storage, and decorating items. And, to celebrate the #BrilliantHEClean campaign, Home Depot is offering a $100 MasterCard Gift card with the purchase of a Maytag Powerwash machine and 150 oz Tide. How awesome, right? Who doesn't love Maytag and Tide?
To kick-off this promotion, we've partnered with Jenny Komenda, decorator and blogger at The Little Green Notebook to help share tips on how to create a more efficient space in your laundry room. You can check out Jenny's laundry room tips below.
Jenny’s tips for overhauling and organizing your laundry room:
Tip #1: Dealing with a dark, cave-like laundry room is a chore in and of itself! By taking off the doors on a few of your upper cabinets, you'll open up the space and create a place to store baskets. In this laundry room, we assigned baskets for every member of the house, which makes sorting a breeze!
Tip #2: Why not decoupage or paint insides of cabinets for a fun pop of color? It's a guaranteed smile each and every time you reach for your detergent.
Tip #3: Don't like the cabinets, floors and countertops in your laundry room? Every surface can be painted or resurfaced! For less than $30 in materials, the outdated linoleum, brick parers and old, dark cabinets were updated in this laundry room with paint and with a concrete overlay product.
Tip #4: A rolling laundry butler can be your best friend, doing triple duty with a hanging bar, a rolling basket and a drying rack. It's the perfect choice for a laundry room with limited space that hasn't been updated in a few decades.
Tip #5: Don't neglect your laundry room walls! Hanging interesting art and mirrors will elevate your room and make it feel less utilitarian and more “homey”. Suddenly those 400 loads of laundry most of us will do this year might actually be enjoyable!
Tip #6: Use a slab of stone or a simple piece of painted MDF on top of the washer/dryer units to create a folding station and to prevent socks from slipping in between the appliances.
Before & After Laundry Room Makeover
Disclosure: I received several products in exchange for this post from the Home Depot. The words and opinions expressed in this review are strictly my own. Please visit their website for product information! As with any product, please do your own research before purchasing, just because we like/love the products featured on Mama of 3 Munchkins, don't mean you will.