Sep. 14, 2009 - A Tour Of Our Home

Part One: The Laundry Room

Our side door is the door we use to enter our home. The side door opens up into our laundry room. Most everyone enters our home through this door. I try to keep this area as neat as possible. Here is what you would see if you entered our home. 

On the right hand side is a refrigerator behind the door you just opened. Beside of the frig are the drier and then the washer. On the left hand side is a coat rack which you can't see, but you can see part of a red fannel jacket hanging there. We keep our yard shoes in this room on the floor. The 2 plastic containers hold dog food. The top one is Oakley's food (our inside dog). The bottom one is a special dog food for older dogs. Our small outside dog, Cheyenne, is 15 years old now. Beside the containers is our trash can. Through the opening you can see into our kitchen and on into half of our living room.

Here is a view of the laundry room looking  back through the opening in the kitchen towards the side door.

You can see the coat racks better in this picture. We hang our jackets, cardigan sweaters, aporns, and reusable grocery bags here. Our broom fits nicely into the small corner beside the door. You can see the frig on the left hand side.

Here is a view of my working laundry area.

On the shelving above the washer and drier are several crates and tubs. In an old dish dry racking (which you can't see because it is the corner and hidden in this view), I store the laundry detergent, fabric softner bottles, and misc. items. In the closest yellow crate is where all the dirty kitchen and cleaning rags go. In the next yellow crate is where I store clean cleaning rags. The pink crate is where we put the items that need to be ironed. The blue tub holds all of our cleaning supplies. We carry it from room to room. It keeps everything organized and easy to access. Beside the blue tub, we store DH's little work coolers, which you can't see. The shelving on has a bar where I can hang hangers. (You can see the hangers in the first picture.) Anytime we empty a hanger, they go here so when I take out laundry from the drier I can hang up any clothes that need to be hung up right away. On top of the frig is where I store egg cratons and our iron. The 2 baksets on top hold various items. The darker baskets holds misc. tools, the flashlight, and thermos, which we use to carry water to our animals. The lighter one holds a white vinegar bottle (I add white vinegar to the rinse cycles), wash clothes which I use as drier sheets, and the spray bottle full of fabric softner to spray on the wash clothes to make homemade drier sheets. The apple dish towel you see is hanging on an apple towel rack. I use those dish towels to wipe up any spills I may have.

I have tried to make the laundry room feel inviting since this is where people enter our house and because I spend alot of time in there. Stay tuned for Part Two: The Kitchen.