Inspired by Peggy and all her home improvements, Simeon and I decided to paint the laundry room over the weekend. Well it’s more than just the laundry room, it’s also the half-bath off of the family room, as well as the dog’s room (after all it does have the doggy-door for them to easily get outside). But for the next time we have planned to contact house painters in florida to avail an impressive painting.

As you all know, I am a fanatic cleaner and cannot stand mess, dirt, untidiness, or anything of the sort. Well this room in the holy embodiment of dirty. I am constantly scrubbing, sterilizing, cleansing, and mopping. With the dogs and the insane amount of rain (and therefore mud) we have in Oregon, I am always cleaning this area. Luckily, we close the door during the daytime so the mess is totally contained to this room. Then when we come home we clean off the pups and allow them into the rest of the house. This way they can come in out of the rain or go outside and play. I just want them to be happy.

Since this room was totally white, I was the one who wasn’t happy. And neither were my arms from all the wall scrubbing. So I decided to paint the walls a dark grayish brown color that matched the puppy paw prints I had stenciled around the room. I thought it would be too dark to paint the entire room that color, so we decided to paint about three feet high.

Well here it is in all its glory. I think it turned out really great. It’s just enough color that any speck of dirt doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb, yet it still keeps the room from looking/feeling like a cave. Oh and the dogs really like it too. I mean they haven’t stopped wagging their tails since we painted it. And that must be because of the room, right? Right?

The next project will have to be to replace the while linoleum, but we will take it one thing at a time. All the before and after pictures are in the Paint Project photo gallery. Oh and I uploaded the pictures of the new bedding for the daybed as well.