First I must thank all of those that helped me along the way and a big thanks to cabinetman, without you guys it probably would have taken longer and would have had a lot more mistakes.
This project has been two years in the making Mostly because it spilled over into the living room and because I had to learn and do most of the stuff myself. To the professional eye you can tell the job was done by an amateur but to everyone else the overall remodel came out great and I learned a lot!
Up first are the before pics. Originally the laundry room sat in a hallway between the living room and garage. There wasn't a lot of room and when the wife was doing laundry I would hit her with the door coming in from the garage. In the living room pics you can see a cove on the left that was pretty useless, it was too small to do anything entertainment related and I've seen a lot of other house owners turn it into a bar area, no thanks.
So the idea was to close off the cove area and move the washer and dryer to the new area. It sounds simple but it required me to build a false wall in order to route all the plumbing (I guess I could have routed it through the existing structure but with the drain pipe it would have meant cutting a lot of material out of the 2x4's and could have affected the structure). So I built a wall and added windows (3 of them, 1 for the laundry room and two picture windows for the living room).
I installed prefinished Brazilian cherry hardwood floors (I originally was going to go with stone but I wasn't sure I had the proper floor joist support). I built the cabinets myself as well as the Brazilian cherry counter top. The counter top was finished with dutch oil/stain and other than the mistake of making my own wood filler (which took the stain/oil differently) it came out great. The cabinets were finished in dura poxy acrylic enamel by kelly more. The interior was coated with parks pro finisher. All drawers and cabinet doors have soft/self closing hinges/slides. The cabinets were made of birch plywood and poplar.
And finally we have the living room. You can see that I added a beam ceiling and windows as well as update the fireplace mantle and surround with slate tile. I also added surround sound, lighting and a fan which is not shown and we got a new slider as well. When the room is clean again I'll post the final pic with the fan.
I'll include my two inspirational pictures as well.
This project has been two years in the making Mostly because it spilled over into the living room and because I had to learn and do most of the stuff myself. To the professional eye you can tell the job was done by an amateur but to everyone else the overall remodel came out great and I learned a lot!
Up first are the before pics. Originally the laundry room sat in a hallway between the living room and garage. There wasn't a lot of room and when the wife was doing laundry I would hit her with the door coming in from the garage. In the living room pics you can see a cove on the left that was pretty useless, it was too small to do anything entertainment related and I've seen a lot of other house owners turn it into a bar area, no thanks.
So the idea was to close off the cove area and move the washer and dryer to the new area. It sounds simple but it required me to build a false wall in order to route all the plumbing (I guess I could have routed it through the existing structure but with the drain pipe it would have meant cutting a lot of material out of the 2x4's and could have affected the structure). So I built a wall and added windows (3 of them, 1 for the laundry room and two picture windows for the living room).
I installed prefinished Brazilian cherry hardwood floors (I originally was going to go with stone but I wasn't sure I had the proper floor joist support). I built the cabinets myself as well as the Brazilian cherry counter top. The counter top was finished with dutch oil/stain and other than the mistake of making my own wood filler (which took the stain/oil differently) it came out great. The cabinets were finished in dura poxy acrylic enamel by kelly more. The interior was coated with parks pro finisher. All drawers and cabinet doors have soft/self closing hinges/slides. The cabinets were made of birch plywood and poplar.
And finally we have the living room. You can see that I added a beam ceiling and windows as well as update the fireplace mantle and surround with slate tile. I also added surround sound, lighting and a fan which is not shown and we got a new slider as well. When the room is clean again I'll post the final pic with the fan.
I'll include my two inspirational pictures as well.
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