Anyone else hate wire shelving? Things don’t sit quite right and everything falls through the cracks… plus it’s ugly. Instead of putting up with it, we made a wood overlay to hide the wire shelving in our laundry room; and the overlay simply sits on top of the original wire shelf. It is week 5 of the One Room Challenge,…
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DIY Chalkboard Sign from Cardboard
How many of you have seen those cute farmhouse-style chalkboard signs? Since I am always trying to figure out how to do things in a budget-friendly manner, I figured out how to make my own DIY Chalkboard Sign, for free, from a piece of cardboard. Check it out! Welcome to week 4 of the One Room Challenge, where I am…
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How to Clean a Dryer
Alrighty… how to clean the dryer. As you may have heard by now, I am working on our laundry room for the One Room Challenge, so I thought I’d share some cleaning tips that directly relate to the laundry room. Cleaning a dryer is something I have never done. However, every time I put a load of clothes in the…
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DIY Lint Box… from A Cereal Box
As you may know, our laundry room was in desperate need of some love and attention. I decided to use a cereal box to create a DIY Lint Box. Easy and budget-friendly. It is week 3 of the One Room Challenge and I have given myself a total of $100 to redo our laundry room. That’s not a whole lot when…
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How to Paint Appliances
When our washing machine died, we had to make a choice: either buy a washer and dryer (despite the fact that our dryer worked just fine) or live with a mismatched pair. Little did we know at the time, there was a third option available to us. Paint the dryer to match the washer! It was such an easy process…
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Ideas for A $100 Laundry Closet Makeover
Welcome to the One Room Challenge, where 150+ bloggers (including myself) tackle one room in our home, transforming it in just 5 weeks’ time! Today I’m talking about some budget-friendly laundry closet ideas because I’m going to try and tackle this project with $100 or less. Let’s take a look at the space I will be working on… May I…
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