Demo week…or more like take down week. This week we focused on taking down the cabinets, plastering the ceiling, and moving the cold/hot intake and drain for the washer down.
Taking down the cabinets was the easy part, putting them back up was not, but we’ll get back to that later. Once the cabinets were down they need to be stripped. I didn’t have the correct gloves to use for the stripper, so I thought to myself just be careful; famous last words right? I was very careful with my right hand, but my left hand never knows what it’s doing with itself. I ended up burning my entire hand with the acid from the stripper. Lesson learned, if you don’t want to look like Dumbledore after he touches the horcrux , then WEAR GLOVES! After it was all stripped down, I sanded, cleaned, and primed them. I used two coats of Benjamin Moore, Caldwell green. It wasn’t quite as rich of a green as I was expecting, but I really love the color!
Above our cabinets it had that foot wide awkward space that no one likes except for maybe your Longaberger basket collectors. Okay, so simple, we’ll just shift the cabinets up right.?Well one thing that you can count on with this house is that nothing will be level. Putting these bad boys up became quite the task and my arms are sore thinking about it. The walls got more narrow at the top, but it’s nothing a mallet and some sweat can’t solve. Once up some of the boards had pulled apart so we used paintable caulk to cover the spaces and touched up paint.
Our ceilings were originally drop ceilings and the owners before us removed the drop ceiling and sheet rocked them. When they plastered they didn’t really sand it down very well. To give them a neater look we re-plastered and feathered it out to give a smoother look.
The cold/hot intake for the washer and drain pipe for the drier was in the center of my wall and wasn’t looking so pretty there. Alan was able to shift it down a little bit. We couldn’t go too much lower because the drain pipe can not be lower than the highest water level point in the washing machine. This is important to note, if you do go too low, you’re at risk of the water siphoning out the drain pipe and flooding your area. Alan moved the pipes down 3″ and then cut the plastic box down by 3.”
Decisions I keep ponder this week are do I add a counter top or is that too much wood with my back panels, shelf and bench? Is it worth adding a sink in that open space by the drier? Can I make my own concrete sink? Should I paint my floor? I’d love all the opinions, share with me your thoughts. What are things that you love or hate about your laundry room?