If you need me, I'll be in my office...

I had fun doing a mini-makeover of my new laundry room.  Don't get me wrong, the laundry room

was pretty good when we bought the home.  Although not very big, the room came

with a built-in front loading washer and dryer, lots of cabinets for storage, and even 

a built-in ironing board {which sadly, will get ZERO use from me}.

The previous owners had placed hand-painted {by their grandchildren} tiles along the 

backsplash and requested that they be able to take them with them.....no

problemo!  Instead of having them replaced with plain white 4x4 tiles, I

instead told them to leave it alone.  What was left was goopy tile

adhesive and walls that needed some TLC.

Because I have no patience and wanted to spruce up my "office space" ASAP,

I decided to try the beadboard wallpaper that has gotten so much press

in blogland to cover my less than perfecto walls.

**disclaimer.....I did not actually install the beadboard wallpaper, I 

let my super handy dad do that for me when he visited one weekend. Thanks papa!

I love the results!  The wallpaper really, like really, looks like beadboard.

Because I spend oodles of time in this small space, I decorated it with some 

favorite finds - my "Feather Your Nest" sign {cause that's what I do!}, 

a vintage chalkboard I bought recently from my friend, Cindy {aka The Queen of Tarte},

an old Ball jar where I collect all my "tips"{loose laundry change}.

I also removed the bar that is intended to hang items to dry {or freshly ironed shirts, ahem!} on....

and installed two open display shelves {from IKEA} cause I wanted a pretty view into

the room.

And cause I am a sucker for details, I changed the knobs to these

pretties from Restoration Hardware.

Paint is "Grey Owl" from my buddy Benjamin Moore - it's my new absolute 

favorite grey!