House Renovation – The LAUNDRY!!!

Had we planned this extension and renovation pre-parenthood, I never would have given the laundry a second thought. An extra bathroom which I could turn into a darkroom, sure. But a laundry, not so much. Luckily the planning was done post-baby, when the designer and the builder would have to step over the mounds of laundry piled high in the hallway to reach our living room, where a drying rack, or two, may need to be moved for easy passage through to the couch, which would need a pile of clean clothes removed before anyone could sit down. At this stage, a proper laundry became imperative. Far more important than a second bathroom. R and the designer talked some sense into me, pointing out that it was very easy to add in a shower/toilet/basin on one side without compromising laundry space too much.

According to everyone else, we are getting a second bathroom put in – that is what a real estate agent and insurance company would bill it as. But for me, it is my laundry. It’s primary purpose is as a laundry, with occasional use as a second bathroom. One day it will also function as a darkroom, where I can lock myself away for an entire day of printing and no-one will be denied toilet access as a result.

At the stage of choosing colours, I said to R that I would really like to make it a pink room – think vibrant, warm, tinged-with-apricot, not pale, insipid or Barbie-pink. He was dubious, and with all the difficulty of running around different tile shops and paint shops and Reece’s showrooms just to select the scheme for the main bathroom, we eventually decided to just match the laundry to the bathroom. Same tiles, same laminate, same wall colour. I wasn’t 100% happy with the idea, but I just didn’t have the energy to try and decide upon a whole new colour scheme, particularly when my brief search amongst paint colours hadn’t turned up anything remotely close to what I was picturing in my head.

Thankfully the Universe listened, and at one of the last meetings with the designer, to confirm our colour, tile and laminate selections, she was flicking through her laminate sample book and I saw it. The colour I was looking for! I asked her to go back and pointed to it and told that that was what I wanted for the laundry. I was so excited to find the exact thing I was looking for – wouldn’t you know it, it’s actually made up of a few different colours – and she was so excited to have a client interested in something so bold and bright. She matched a plain colour laminate to it saying that she’d use the striped laminate for the cupboards and the plain laminate for the bench. My dream laminate is called “Energy Stream”. Somewhat appropriate for a room that I want to feel energetic in.

I took the samples home and announced to R that I’d found the colours that I wanted in the laundry. He looked somewhat aghast and asked me “…and you’ll love this forever and ever and ever???” Easy question – of course I will! I also pointed out that I’ll be in the laundry every single day and the case was closed. Happily, R likes the colours better now that the cupboards are installed, and it was R who finally chose the paint colour to match, suggesting that we use the bright orangey-yellow that is throughout most of the house. It was my turn to be dubious, but the colours do work well and the effect will be brighter than any of the matching pinky toned colours that I was looking at. It will be like having a permanent sunset in the laundry with these colours! I can’t wait to see the laundry finished!

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