Pretty Crafty Laundry
Just a little blog-keeping before we begin...
Firstly another thank you is due to all you darling, wonderful people who have been so kind and supportive of my Blossoming Bag. (And, a extra special thank you to anyone who has brought the pattern. Thank you!) I really do appreciate all of your kind words and for being remotely interested in any of my little makes.
Firstly another thank you is due to all you darling, wonderful people who have been so kind and supportive of my Blossoming Bag. (And, a extra special thank you to anyone who has brought the pattern. Thank you!) I really do appreciate all of your kind words and for being remotely interested in any of my little makes.
Secondly, I know some of you have sent me some questions and queries lately and I want you to know that I shall be working away to get answers back to each of you as soon as I can. In the meantime, if you are on Ravelry you can always raise any queries in Cherry Heart's Cozy Corner, my Ravelry Group.
Right, now that's all done, let's talk about cupboards!
Ok, so that doesn't sound thrilling, but I can sit here with a totally straight face and assure you that, strange as it may seem, I am completely delighted and excited about a cupboard. It's true.
Let's go back in time a bit and I'll explain. We're going to go way back to January of this year. Actually, the origins of this idea were way before that, but life is short and time is precious so, for the purposes of this tale, let us begin in January.
In January I dismantled our downstairs shower and thus the 'Grand Kitchen Re-Jig' began.
There's two things you need to know for this story to make sense. One is that, leading off from our kitchen we have a small area of utility space and off of that we have a little extra bathroom. Very handy thing to have, but it also has a shower cubicle in it, which we don't really make any use of. The other thing is that we don't have a dishwasher in our kitchen. For a long time we didn't worry about that and thought we had no space for one.
Then after much plotting and planning, we figured away to free-up precious space for a dishwasher and make use of the wasted shower cubicle space. Hurrah! So the shuffling began.
First we got rid of a kitchen cupboard and put in a dishwasher...
Which was fine, but then we had an extra cupboard and all it's contents with no-where to go.
So, we moved the washing machine out of the utility area and put the cupboard in...
Well, that's the genius part of this plan. The shower cubicle had to go and in it's place a cupboard was built. Not any old cupboard, but a pretty and crafty, laundry cupboard...
This is why I'm excited. Not only do I have a new home for my washing machine, but also space to put all my washing bits and bobs. The homeless ironing board has now found comfortable accommodation. I have cute little baskets to hold towels and whatnots so neatly. And as if all this was not enough, we also found room to cram in a tumble dryer too. Such luxury, such privilege! I now have all mod-con's at my finger tips. Come and peek inside with me...
'How lovely for you I'm sure.' I hear you say, 'but what of this 'pretty' and 'crafty' that you spoke of?'
Well, it was just after the building of this cupboard started that I started reading a blog called 'i heart organizing', which seemed appropriate, because I do heart it. I have been very inspired by this blog. It has lots of fabulous tips for organising pretty every aspect of your home that you can think of and of course, it's all done so beautifully.
The style is generally a little more contemporary than my own, but the point is, why can't it be functional and beautiful at the same time? This, exactly sums up my thoughts on the subject and is much of what my PCH project last year was all about.
So after soaking up post after post of beautiful organisation from this site, I wanted my cupboard to have a little something more about it than a regular, normal and dull old cupboard. So I came up with an idea.
To see that, we have to peak a little closer. Come and peer inside the door and you'll see the bit that makes the mundane job of laundry a task to make me smile...
I patchwork papered it!
Do you love it? I do. It makes me so happy I just smile every time I open the door.
I got this lovely collection of wallpapers from Jane at Teawagon Tales. She sells them in her Etsy Shop, Little Teawagon. I brought a pack of 20 pieces and the fun I've have with those pieces you wouldn't believe. Fitting them together, chopping them up, sticking them in. The best part of the whole project for sure. There's a couple that take me straight back to my childhood home.
I took the opportunity of having a big clear out of bathroom clutter while I was at it and I've very pleased with the pristine, sleek results. Although, if I can keep it that way will be another matter. I am hoping very much, that the old 'a place for everything' theory will work some magic for me. I can but try.
S x
