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20 Laundry Room Makeovers - Organization and Home Decor

On Monday we unveiled our new laundry room makeover… did you see it? We’re totally in love with the new space, especially the shelves and shiplap that we built. Well today we’re sharing 20 amazing laundry room makeovers that we’ve found along the way for inspiration. Come take a look…

Navy Modern Laundry Room by Bre Purposed

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Buffalo Check Floored Laundry Room by Emily Henderson

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Tile Floor & Black Cabinets Laundry Room by Dear Lillie

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Tiny Laundry Room, Tiny Budget by Paper Daisy Design

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Bathroom turned Laundry Room from Chris Loves Julia

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Waterfall Counters + Laundry Room by Vintage Revivals

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Polka Dot Laundry Room by A Beautiful Mess

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Colorful Laundry Room Makeover by Lil Luna

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Farmhouse Laundry Room by Jenna Sue Design

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Blue Laundry Room by Bower Power

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Stenciled washer & dryer and Laundry Room Makeover by How to Nest for Less

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Stenciled and Striped Laundry Room from View Along the Way

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Fun and Funky Laundry Room from Tatertots & Jello

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Beachy Laundry Room Makeover from Sand and Sisal

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Chic Laundry Room Makeover from The 36th Avenue

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Small Laundry Room Makeover by How to Nest for Less

 

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Laundry Room with Fabric Walls by Sincerely Sara D.

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Laundry Closet Makeover by Four Generations Under One Roof

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Black & White Laundry Room by Stacy Risenmay

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Shiplap & DIY Shelves from How to Nest for Less

Make sure you head over to our laundry room to see the full reveal and we break down the costs for you! We painted the cabinets our favorite blueish gray color (Bottlenose Dolphin by Valspar), and the shiplap and DIY stained shelves are my absolute favorite!

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SO, DO YOU FEEL INSPIRED YET TO GET ORGANIZED?
I know no one needs a pretty laundry room, but man…
these Laundry Room Makeovers might make doing laundry a little bit easier!

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Laundry Room Makeover Ideas: Easy & Affordable

Laundry rooms often get overlooked when we are decorating our homes. The truth is, paying a little attention to this essential space will not just increase its storage capability and basic functionality. Doing so can also add beauty to an area where you might spend a lot of your day, whether you like it or not! In this roundup, I've included both simple DIYs and full scale laundry room makeover ideas.  I hope you find some laundry room makeover inspiration that you can use in your own home!

If you're in the mood for a complete overhaul, check out these laundry room makeovers!

Modern Industrial Small Laundry Room Makeover

When my sister purchased her downtown Edmonton loft condo, we knew that the tiny laundry room desperately needed a makeover! It’s more like a closet than a room, really, and it has a very awkward shape. Some simple wall storage, DIY art, and a brand new Samsung laundry pair that makes my sister's life a whole lot easier and stacks nicely in the weird corner were all that was needed to give this room new life! On the wall to the left of the laundry set we hung some large format DIY art, a metal shelf, and a DIY laundry bag that I made from a plain white hanging hamper and a simple homemade decal.

Check out the full post for tips and tricks for making a small space work for you. And for even more ideas on how to have a cute and coordinated, tiny but functional laundry space, see if any of my other laundry room organization ideas might work for your space too.

Classic Cottage Laundry Room

I'm so excited to share my parents' adorable cottage style laundry room with you! They worked so hard finishing it off all by themselves, and the space turned out beautifully. 

This is the mood board for Mom's Lake House laundry room when they were just getting started. They did a great job of staying true to the original vision, and I'm so in love with how it turned out!  Mom and Dad made a DIY hutch to store linens using pre-made cabinets, crown moulding, and some project board they found at the local hardware store. Handmade wooden shelves add character to the inexpensive off-white cabinetry. The appliances are nestled under a gorgeous stained wooden countertop that is the perfect place to fold laundry and store accessories. And of course, every laundry room needs baskets to hide things in! The faux marble floor tiles are bright and neutral, and echo the marble accents in Mom's Lake House kitchen. Come take a tour and see all the DIY touches in this classic cottage style laundry room!

A Vintage Inspired Red & Aqua Laundry Room

This small but mighty vintage inspired red and aqua laundry room makeover didn't cost us much at all. Inspiration struck when I found a giant pegboard, and then I purchased a few pegboard accessories online. The rest of the transformation happened because of a lot of elbow grease and a tonne of DIY. 

This laundry room makeover came about because although the laundry room functioned just fine, it was plain and bare. Plus, I really needed more storage and a better place to fold our clothes. 

The pegboard is the real star of this show! I had originally planned for it to measure 6 x 6 feet, but since it comes in 8 foot long sheets, hubby convinced me to make it 8 feet high instead. I'm really glad I listened, because I'm using the entire pegboard and I don't have to worry about reaching the high spots. I hung art up there, my mop, broom, and ironing board.  It works great!

Pegboard storage

Now let’s talk about pegboard storage. I found pegboard baskets on Amazon, they're great for holding my iron and some pretty decor. I also made a small shelf  by cutting and staining a 1" x 4" piece of pine, and some inexpensive metal buckets hang below. I'm using all of the buckets and baskets to collect loose change and hold laundry supplies.

I made the pegboard space pretty too! I found vintage artwork online, framed it, and the frames hang from our pegboard with pegboard hooks. Underneath the artwork is an old drying rack that I stained ebony to give it new life here.  It’s attached to the pegboard with hooks, and pulls out from the wall so that I can use it while it’s still hanging up there! I also hung an antique washboard I found at our local antique store on the wall by the window.

The cafe curtains are a DIY. They were so easy to make! I'm just thrilled with how much some DIY and a small budget accomplished in our laundry room! I hope you are able to take home some tips and ideas for your own laundry room or utility space that won't cost much but will make your home  more functional.

Laundry Room DIY & Decor Ideas on a Budget!

Sometimes, all it takes is a small change to make a big impact.  If you are in the mood for new art or a DIY project to tweak your laundry room vibe, see if any of these ideas inspire you!

Download this vintage industrial inspired laundry room sign for free, and get it printed in a large format for only a few dollars! I designed the sign in Photoshop, and then printed it for only $3 CDN! How? I sent it to my local Staples and had it printed in black & white as an "Engineering Print", which is a 24" x 36" grayscale print on plain paper. This is a great hack if you want some oversized black & white art on a budget. You’re welcome!

This is a really fun one, you guys! With a limited budget for our laundry room finishing, we had to come up with a creative solution for the countertop that would go over our washer and dryer. I knew I wanted something solid over the machines that I could fold clothes or store laundry baskets on, but it had to be something inexpensive...or free. I had decided on staining some plywood and cutting it to fit over our machines until one night a better idea hit me. What's flat, 30" deep, and free? AN OOPSIE DOOR. I had just thought of another use for the little stack of doors we have in storage that were wrongly ordered when we built Our DIY House! Why not?! Come see how we made a countertop out of a door, complete with step by step instructions!

Getting Organized

Of course, at the end of the day it doesn’t matter how many pretty DIYs or clever storage solutions we come up with for our laundry room areas if they don’t stay safe and organized! Once you have achieved the look you want, remember to strive for safety and avoid laundry clutter too.  Here are my 5 Easy Ways to Keep Your Laundry Room Safe and Organized:

I hope that you've found something here to inspire you to create a beautiful, functional laundry space that you will enjoy spending time in.  Tag me @TheDIYMommy on instagram to show me your own laundry room makeovers!

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Proper maintenance of laundry equipment

Doroshenko Timofey,
Regional Manager Customer Care
Eastern Europe, Electrolux Professional

Modern laundry processing equipment is often complex automated equipment designed to save resources while delivering high performance. But in order for the equipment to provide the user with the declared efficiency parameters, its technical condition requires some attention.

The simplest example: let's say the filter in the water supply valve of the washing machine is slightly clogged. Water is drawn in a little slower. A set of a given level occurs in two minutes instead of one. This difference is imperceptible to the operator, the machine's electronics also do not determine the problem, since water is still supplied. However, the total lengthening of the washing program will already be about 5 minutes (for a basic program of one main wash and four rinses). With a total program duration of 45-50 minutes, this means that the machine will spend 10% more time washing the same load of laundry! And this is pure and completely unnecessary waste of time.

There are two strategies for how users treat equipment. One of them is reactive, that is, “we exploit until it breaks.” And when it breaks down, we rely on the quality of the service company's work: response speed, availability of spare parts, engineer's qualifications, etc., naturally wanting to reduce the downtime of the machine. We also bear the risks of loss of efficiency in the use of equipment, as in the example above. But there is another strategy - PROactive: we do not allow downtime and loss of efficiency in general! With timely and correct maintenance.

WHAT IS THE RIGHT THING?

Some simple but important maintenance operations must be carried out on a daily basis, most often directly by the operator, for example: keeping the external surfaces of the equipment and the surrounding area clean, cleaning door seals, dust filters, changing the water in steam generators, etc. p. A complete list is usually indicated in the instruction manual for a specific piece of equipment, or in the manufacturer's special instructions for daily maintenance:

The next level is operations that require a service technician. Starting from cleaning the insides of equipment from fluff and dust (in the laundry room, through which tons of laundry pass, fluff forms in large quantities), cleaning filters and drain systems; continuing with the check and adjustment of drives and sensors of automation; and ending with the preventive replacement of parts whose resource is nearing the end (which means that a breakdown can occur at any time). These works are usually carried out by service companies or even by the laundry technicians themselves (if available, and after the warranty period has expired).

The frequency of such maintenance depends very much on the load of the equipment, its technical condition, as well as the external operating conditions, such as temperature, humidity and dust in the room, cleanliness and water pressure, etc. This can be once a week, once a month or once a quarter. Many service companies have their own maintenance schedules and to-do lists, most often averaged across all equipment manufacturers.

Top level - preventive maintenance according to equipment manufacturer's checklists. Using special "maintenance kits" also created by the manufacturer. Who, if not the manufacturer, can evaluate the resource of components subject to natural wear and tear? This means predicting the need to replace components not only in the short term, but in the distant future.

For example, the “four-year maintenance” kit (recommended for replacement every 4 years) of Electrolux Professional TD6 dryers contains everything needed to upgrade the drum bearings as well as the sensors for the laundry residual moisture control system.

If the maintenance program recommended by the manufacturer is carried out, the machine does not lose its qualities throughout the entire service life, primarily productivity and economy. Works like new! Or even better, as software, technology programs, etc. are updated.

In addition, maintenance can be combined with various manufacturers' extended warranties.

Electrolux Professional, in particular, offers a series of service products under the common Essentia brand. These products combine maintenance with various extended warranties and other services (such as training for operators or customer technicians). In this case, for a fixed package price, the client receives protection against unexpected costs associated with the equipment.

A separate issue is the maintenance of dosing stations for detergents.

If the dosing station is owned by the laundry and not by the detergent supplier, it must be given special attention. Especially in the case of wet cleaning technology, since in wet cleaning technology a small deviation in the dosage of the drug can lead to irreversible damage to the processed product, often expensive.

Peristaltic metering pumps are the most common. It is extremely important to regularly check the deviation from the programmed performance and perform calibration. Since the elasticity of the peristaltic tube inevitably falls over time, and, consequently, the performance of the pump decreases. If the calibration remains unchanged, the dosage will no longer be correct - there is a risk of damage to the workpiece. To avoid excessive aging of the peristaltic tubes of the pumps, it is recommended to replace them every 3 months (in the case of wet cleaning chemicals). This period can be even shorter when using aggressive detergents.

The latest metering stations based on the Venturi effect require much less control and maintenance. For example, the Jetsave system used by Electrolux Professional. There are no moving parts as such (apart from the solenoid water valve core). The absorption of the detergent occurs due to the rarefaction that occurs when the flow of water flows through a section of a special shape. Therefore, there is nothing to wear out or age. Therefore, the set settings (calibration) do not change over time. It is enough to check the calibration of the dispenser once a year.

The condition of the main components that ensure the guaranteed operation of the equipment should be regularly monitored, their performance and resource should be correctly assessed. Failure to do so may result in serious malfunction and costly repairs!

This article has only covered some aspects of laundry equipment maintenance. To form an answer to a frequently asked question by customers: “What kind of service contract do I need for my laundry?” - first of all, think about what is most critical for your business at the moment: a decrease in the productivity or quality of laundry processing, the presence or absence of sudden expenses for equipment repair, the qualifications and experience of technicians servicing equipment, confidence in the safe and efficient operation of everything equipment park?

Electrolux Professional's Customer Care team will be happy to answer your questions and find the best solution for your laundry.

You can read the full article by Timofey Doroshenko in the magazine "All for Dry Cleaning and Laundry" No. 3 for 2020.

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How do you maintain and repair the equipment in your dry cleaning and laundry? Poll results

How do you maintain and repair equipment in your dry cleaning and laundry? Poll results

The editors of the Vse dlya dry-cleaner and laundry magazine summed up the results of a survey of visitors to the site www.cleanprice.ru about the repair and maintenance of equipment. To the question “How do you maintain and repair equipment in your dry cleaning and laundry?” the following answers were given:

The survey results are commented by experts.

Alexander Ulanov, Cleanhelp LLC Moscow:

- Official service departments of equipment manufacturers and suppliers have a narrow specialization, their masters know only their brand of equipment well. In my opinion, official services have high prices and low response time due to the bureaucratic features inherent in many large companies.

Private craftsmen and repair services, as a rule, have information on a wide range of equipment, and are ready to take on the repair of any models, depending on the tasks that the customer sets for them. If a client has equipment that is not typical for our market, a private master is motivated to look into and solve the problem. At a minimum, this is necessary to retain the client, as a maximum, it is interesting and informative. Good craftsmen are known to manufacturers, they are provided with comprehensive information support, they have direct access to spare parts and software.

Private repair services rely on the reputation of their engineers over the years, the name of the master is better known to customers than the legal name of the enterprise. A legal entity is a mandatory condition for concluding long-term maintenance contracts with stable customers.

Having an in-house dry cleaners engineer with the standard equipment (dry cleaner, multiple washer/dryer, ironer and a couple of ironing tables) is a must if she wants to avoid long downtime when equipment breaks down. Such an engineer must correctly identify the malfunction, if possible, repair the breakdown on his own or call a specialist.

The problem of personnel training in the field of equipment repair is now very acute. In the 2000s, firms could choose engineers for themselves, since there were many free specialists on the market with a good “Soviet” engineering education. Even if it was received in a different direction, the engineer had enough training to quickly understand the specifics and retrain. For example, I refer myself to the Soviet school of education.

Now, with the collapse of the system of vocational schools and the leveling of the quality of higher education, it has become more difficult to teach equipment repairmen. There is no base. Knowledge about the specifics of the repair of this or that equipment, which manufacturers can give, actually falls on a "blank slate". Any non-standard situation becomes a stumbling block for such superficial specialists.

Nadezhda Bagrets, director, O-tri dry cleaner, Moscow:

- The position of a mechanic has been in our company since the very first day of work. After spending a huge amount of money to buy equipment, we wanted to keep the equipment running as long as possible.

We figured everything out ourselves. At first, we tried to get information from suppliers with what frequency and what needs to be done for maintenance, and then, daily, weekly and monthly, various activities were carried out. If they didn’t have enough knowledge, they climbed into the instruction manual and thought it out themselves or applied for a guarantee again to the supplier.

Service workers were allowed to access the equipment only after six years of work, when their knowledge and experience were no longer enough. In other cases, one part was removed and replaced by another, for this special engineering brains are not needed. The after-sales service was swept aside by itself at the beginning, since even during commissioning there were complaints in the work, plus the high cost of services and the opacity of the cost played. We were offered either a monthly service, where the amount per month was clearly prescribed and it was not prescribed what would be done for this money, or standard hours were set for work, but in fact these were hours for finding a specialist in our workshop.

In my understanding, the standard hour is a time standard designed to perform specific service and repair work. It is calculated on the basis of a catalog that describes all possible repair and maintenance work, taking into account the coefficient of complexity of the work, that is, the standard is not linearly related to the actual time spent on the work. For example, to tighten the nut 0.05 standard hours, the cost is 1250 rubles / hour × 0.05 hours = 62.50 rubles.

Departure of the master to identify the problem cannot be calculated at all by standard hours. They don't catalog it, yes, and to be honest, there is simply no catalog for repairing dry cleaning machines. In reality, in order not to count and fool around with the service catalog, they charge for the hours spent in the shop.

It's good if a qualified specialist came to you, and he determined what was the matter in 20 minutes and clearly repaired everything in 1.5-2 hours, and if not very qualified, then horror and a waste of time begin. He will either poke his head in there, then here, then he will call there to consult, then he will tear off the wire, then he doesn’t have a soldering iron, then he doesn’t repair it at all and you need to buy this part, and he will put it next time, someday, and after you they will charge you a handsome sum for his presence with you for three hours, for finding a "wandering" error, and also a bill for a future trip (I describe a real, not a hypothetical case).

Or another option. The problem is eliminated by half, in order to come back for repairs after some time. Separate exit, extra money.

I got the impression that service companies do not need qualified specialists, because they are expensive, earn little on the road and do not sell spare parts well. And the service company is not interested in you with your broken equipment and downtime, since the main income is formed on commissioning or on the repair of conveyor laundries. If you suddenly decide to object, they will explain to you that the standard hour costs so much, and work in less than three hours is not profitable for the service company, and it does not matter that the specialist did not repair it. And if you don’t pay us, then we won’t be friends with you, and if anything, we won’t give a discount on chemistry or we won’t come to the call quickly.

I have great respect for the leaders of these companies, very educated, smart and successful people, but I don't want to fight the unconscious pride of their subordinates. Empirically, I came to the conclusion that for equipment repair it is better for me to turn to private qualified specialists who work for themselves, they will not pull the bagpipes, they will start the system immediately, or they will offer an interesting engineering solution when something standard does not work. They value their time and yours, value their clients, because reputation should bring new customers.

In the last ten years, weak, very poorly trained engineers have come into the industry who do not want to think, gain experience, and care about the quality of the work performed. They want everything at once, without any effort.

We don't have extra funds to experiment with our equipment and work out different versions. We need qualified repair assistance, so we choose our trusted craftsmen, because. repair errors are very expensive for the company, and given the current purchasing power even more expensive.

Yuri Goldberg, Director of Servisbytmash LLC, Moscow:

- In addition to the survey results, I would like to draw readers' attention to the following:

  1. A full-time mechanic is desirable for washing volumes of approximately 600 kg per shift.
  2. Basically, companies, when choosing a service organization, are guided by two criteria - price and reliability.

The situation in the service has changed over the past 10 years and continues to change. The main change is specialization. Nowadays, it is becoming more and more difficult to find a master of all trades, and the market does not always require this. The equipment of such and such a brand has broken down, you call the master for this type of equipment. He has software for this equipment, access to catalogs with spare parts, special equipment, tools.

Long-term business owners have a circle of service companies or private craftsmen who, as in the old days, are jack-of-all-trades or jack-of-all-trades.

That's not bad. But times are changing. Now it is impossible to have all the documentation for all the equipment, so there is an unwitting division into brands, brands, manufacturers.

The jack of all trades also becomes more "partial" to a certain brand than to others. He has everything he needs for this brand, it is easier and easier for him to work with the manufacturer from which he received support (and training, and programs, and equipment).

However, with the obvious specialization of service engineers, no one canceled the need for Masters with a capital letter .

There are well-known brands and there are specialists that we talked about. And there is exotic equipment that is little or poorly represented on the market in Russia. Where to run? Who to call? - Master!

Andrey Parfeniev, Head of the dry cleaning and laundry consulting and technology center, St. Petersburg:

- The results of the survey were not surprising, as they did not reveal any surprises, but they provided information that may be useful for market participants promoting their products (equipment). In modern conditions, keeping equipment repair specialists on your staff is an expensive pleasure that only fairly large enterprises with a large fleet of equipment and significant volumes of orders can afford.

But even for these enterprises, such highly specialized specialists as: specialists in cryotechnics (refrigeration units), specialists in electronics (control computers), specialists in welding and repair (manufacturing of heating elements), specialists in maintenance of ventilation systems and sewerage systems - keep in the state, as a rule, an unaffordable luxury.

More than 1/3 of the respondents who have their own mechanic on staff and use the services of third-party specialists confirm the viability of the scheme, when the current scheduled repair and maintenance of equipment that does not require special knowledge and tools is carried out by a full-time mechanic, and, if necessary, qualified specialists are invited .

Answer when all issues related to the repair of the company's equipment fleet are solved by the company's specialists indicate a significant percentage of enterprises that have equipment with a maximum motor resource - newly opened enterprises that use fairly new equipment that does not yet have problems associated with accumulation significant depreciation changes: corrosion, fatigue of metal and other materials, wear of surfaces of rubbing parts, system failures of electronic control circuits from changes in the properties of electrical fittings associated with a long service life. Also, small and medium-sized laundries and self-service laundries can be added to these enterprises, having equipment of low and medium productivity, which does not require particularly complex engineering high-tech solutions and design complication.

Very few respondents (only 6%) indicated that they use the services of specialists from service centers of equipment manufacturers or sellers, which is the result of a significant separation of enterprises - equipment users from equipment sellers (the country is large, our open spaces are not measured, and not every enterprise can be reached by a direct road, without transfers and difficulties).

Even fewer respondents use the services of local service centers. In my opinion, this is the result of the lack of highly qualified specialists in the field, associated with a rather sad trend of recent decades - the collapse of the vocational education system and a significant bias in the system of training mid- and senior-level specialists between engineering and technical specialties and specialties in the non-productive sphere (specialization in management, jurisprudence, accounting).

All the complex problems force 1/7 of the respondents to use the services of private mechanics. In no way do I want to offend the specialists who help enterprises solve problems with the repair and maintenance of equipment. Low bow and respect to them, but you must admit that there is something wrong in the fact that enterprises are forced to trust a “private mechanic” with rather complex and expensive equipment. Perhaps the results of this survey will clearly show how great the shortage of qualified specialists in our industry is, how great is the potential for employment of specialists with special training and skills in servicing and repairing equipment.

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