Another Day Another Built-in!

Here are some pictures of the second built-in cabinet Andy made for the laundry room. It ended up taking on an other than intended, but so much better purpose! Instead of being used for just laundry, this is now my dedicated craft corner! 

He also framed out the window, which added a nice bright pop to the room. Now all that is left is for him to build one more wall cabinet for above the craft cabinet and to frame out the window above the washer and dryer! Then I will paint the door facings in the room over vacation next month. Hopefully ALL the door facings will get painted white next month.

Big Ideas!

Plans for the upcoming projects keep changing, but it looks like Andy will now be building the following items hopefully over the course of 2011 and 2012:

console table for entryway

minus the wine rack insert in the middle (it is a living room). This space will be left open and I will probably display pottery pieces (after I buy them) there. We will be going for a farmhouse look, with the dark, lacquered top and painted front and sides.

This chair to go in front of the bookshelf by the double window in living room. This is awesome. It comes with the pattern to sew the cushions too!

The coolest thing about this sewing cart is that you can put the machine in the bottom shelf, drop the sides, push it against the wall, and it looks like a regular old end table. It really only uses one big piece of plywood too!

Farm house dining table:

This one will be very simple, but take longer to start because Andy will need to get his shop space all set up. The top will be like the photo, but the legs will be painted.

 

Andy will be designing the vanity for the master bath. It will be a furniture type piece with above mounted bowl like this:

If there is room I will also get a scaled down one of these:

There are also plans for shallow bookshelves built in around a window like we want to do in the home office, but they are hiding from me at the moment.

More Laundry Room Progress

Andy has been hard at work in the laundry room. The newest addition is this nifty laundry cart, plans courtesy of ana-white.com:

Now sorting laundry is a breeze and when I'm ready to wash I just pull the basket out I need or roll the whole thing over to the washing machine! It is so much easier than having piles to maneuver around on the floor. It will eventually be sanded when it warms up outside and painted a nice, bright blue close to the one in the curtain fabric at the bottom of this post.

He also replaced the old, tall cabinet that wasn't quite deep enough and way taller than I needed (finding anything required climbing on top of the washer) with this handy cabinet. 

I actually remember to use the dryer sheets because I can see them! And, as an added bonus (and a cleaner look over time) he painted the inside green!

Everything has a place in the cabinet now!

 

Just behind the basket cart is a laundry folding station custom made by my in-house handyman:

The built-in ironing board is nestled above, there is more storage for baskets below (for transporting the clean, folded laundry of course) and there is also a cabinet beneath handy for my toolbag and other miscellaneous items that don't need to be out in the open, but are still easily accessible.

Next I will probably use some of the curtain fabric to cover this window above the washer and dryer. It is kind of creepy at night looking out there and curtains are so much cuter than blinds! :)

Watch this space:

This is the corner where the sink used to be on the other side of the hot water heater closet. It will be home to another cabinet with deep lower drawers on the right and an open space on the left to hide the litter box (behind curtains of course!). There will be another cabinet identical to the one above the washer and dryer on the right side above the coutertop.