Laundry room progress...

Since Travis has this chunk of time off due to the strike we decided to go ahead and finish out the laundry room.   This is a budget friendly redo and we didn't end up using some of the materials we had originally wanted.  The sink we were searching for never materialized, so we are going with a standard plastic utility sink, but we will frame it out and skirt it and I'm sure it will turn out just fine.

this was the sink we ordered from rejuvination.com but it was just too shallow.  They have the most amazing customer service though, and took it back with no hassle!

We started out with some planked wood...

The original walls were cinderblock.  This is the fire wall between the town homes, it has a subway-ish look to it, but I wanted something a little cleaner looking.  We decided to plank this wall along with the ceiling...

This is the ceiling planked.  There will be three small light fixtures in this room- one over the dryer and two over the washer/sink area.

Travis used 2x3's studs to create a base for the planks to attach to.

The planks are up, but a trim piece will be needed at the top to hide the not so straight wall.  Older home walls, heck even newer home walls, are just never straight!

Yesterday he worked on the dryer side of the room.  To the left will be the utility closet, similar to the one we built in our last laundry room...

To the right of the cabinet is the dryer.  We had to split up the washer and dryer because orignially the dryer was vented into the house.  Yes, INTO the house.  The only way to correctly run the vent to the outside was up and onto the flat roof over the garage.  This meant moving the dryer to the opposite wall.

I ended up selecting some lights from Barn Light Electric.  I've got several of their lights and they are my go to for style, function and price point.  At $30 a light this was a good choice...

The walls and cabinet will be painted out in SW White Duck with SW Iron Ore on the table tops over the washer and dryer.  Originally we were going to have the large slab of soapstone cut for this space, but given the strike and not wanting to spend extra money, we are just going to go with wood.  This can be changed later if we want to.  

So there you have it.  This little laundry room will always be known as the room the strike of 2015 built ;)