laundry room is done

The ginger plant is getting tall.

 The dog wanted his picture taken too.  Never hurts to look cute and try to finagle a treat.

My big project this week was getting the laundry room painted.  The walls are a light orange, called "perfect peach", but what the color reminds me of is the orange sherbet swirled with vanilla ice cream we used to eat a lot when I was a kid.

(Unfortunately these pictures I took with my phone are a little blurry, which I couldn't tell till I saw them on a bigger screen.)  Storage shelves on the left and ivory soap girl sign on the wall.  I need to find a more permanent way to close in the dryer vent; right now it has a yogurt container stuck on it.

All ready for the new washing machine I will hopefully buy next week...  I'm not sure what year the addition on my house was built, just that it was some time after the original part of the house in 1946, but by the linoleum I'm guessing it was during the 60s. 

Notice the lovely avocado green toilet (with paint brushes still drying on it).  It hardly ever gets used and it has a tendency for the water not to shut off inside if someone does flush it, but it's not in my budget to pay to have it taken out now and it has come in handy a few times to have more than one toilet in the house.
You can't really see the curtains in this shot because of the sun glare, but they are some I got second hand - sheer panel with orange and yellow flowers on the ruffle at top and bottom.  The orange is a different color than the wall, but I think they go ok and help tie in the yellowish floor too.  They are just the right size and let in the sun and air like I wanted.

I got this chest of drawers free on the side of the road a few years back and it has been just sitting in my shop building because I was sure I could find something to do with it.  The paint is a little scuffed, but not so much that I was motivated to repaint it.  I cut a piece of plywood to fit where the drawer was missing so that I can set little bins in there.  It will be great storage for cleaning rags, etc.
I am so happy to finally get my laundry room all fixed up!  And though doing some loads of laundry by hand has not been all that bad, it will be nice to get a machine next week!

I transplanted these calla lilies next to my side door several years ago, and this is the first year they have bloomed.

Now, as the cat reminds me, it's time for a nap.  :)  Here he is sleeping on top of one of my next projects - another old chest of drawers which I am going to fix up as a sideboard.  Maybe I will have that done to show next week.