Extreme Laundry room makeover on a budget | DIY Makeover | Massive Transformation start to finish

Hey everyone, welcome back to another video. Today we are jumping right into a laundry room makeover. So I hope you guys enjoy this transformation. I think that it turned out absolutely beautiful. It was a ton of work, but it was worth every single second of it. And of course, with any makeover, we always start by clearing the space. So I'm just gonna work on getting all the decor out, getting all the screws and nails out of the room, along with the washer and dryer, because I will be putting in some new flooring today. I'm pretty sure there's a lizard behind that. I'm almost certain. Just know it. I know he's in there. I told you guys. I told you. Holy shoot. Luckily that wasn't a cuss word. After frantically looking for the gecko for about five minutes and having my husband help, I was just hoping he could kind of scare it off so he wouldn't jump out at me again. But I'm just gonna work on going ahead and getting the washer and dryer out. So I am just going to kind of walk these back and forth to just pull it out. It honestly wasn't as bad as it may look. They weren't too bad. And I honestly didn't have to really worry about the flooring or anything because it was a plywood floor. Once I get the new flooring in though, I will have my husband help me carry them back inside so I don't scratch it out. ♪ It's nothing new, but it's so good to see you. ♪ ♪ We do this every day. ♪ ♪ And I'm still so amazed by you. ♪ Got it. As you can see behind the washer and dryer, there was lots of stuff. So I just swept it all into one big pile, scooped it up into my desk pan and tossed it. I did grab a few things out of there that weren't supposed to go in the trash, but most of it was in rough shape. At this point, there was so much dust flying around the room. I went ahead and put on my respirator mask because I have noticed that with age, I have started to develop allergies pretty bad. So I put my mask on just to be safe and I'm gonna continue to sweep, clean, and then I will start painting in just a moment. Of course, it would not be a video if Zoe wasn't watching me or right next to me the whole time. She is my little support system. I swear, she is like the mascot of my channel. I love her so much and I love that she's extremely nosy and just kind of wants to be around me all the time. Like, I don't know, we just have a very special bond. I'm sure a lot of you may have noticed that. But anyway, now I'm gonna start caulking all the holes and fill these. You can use spackling, but I just already had this on hand so I'm just using what I have because I wanted this makeover to be affordable, but I still wanted, you know, I wanted it to be really nice. So now moving on to painting. Since I'm on a budget this month, I really wanted to use up some paint that I already had. So I had a can of Agreeable Gray, which is the same color that's in my home currently. And I decided that all the walls would be Agreeable Gray, the ceiling would stay white, and the cabinets, I decided to go with Iron Ore by Sherwin-Williams. So those are my three paint colors. We just have a basic white, the Agreeable Gray by Sherwin-Williams, and Iron Ore will be my cabinet color, which you'll see that a little bit later. I just absolutely love this color, the Agreeable Gray. I feel like it's just such a great neutral. I just, I really like it. I actually painted my, one of my bedroom makeovers that I did up at the ranch house, I did the Repost Gray. And while I really loved it, it did have a lot of green and blue undertones, in my opinion, but this one has more of a beige undertone. So sometimes it'll look very tan, and then sometimes it'll just look like a very neutral gray, which I think is so nice, especially with anybody's decor style. I just, I swear by this color. It looks a little bit dark going on here, but that's just because of the lighting. It was getting dark outside, so the lighting wasn't the best. During the day, you can get a better idea of what it looks like. ♪ Hope it never ends ♪ ♪ Let's be more than friends, yeah ♪ ♪ I'm here to stay, every single day, yeah ♪ ♪ To hold me tight, through the night ♪ ♪ It's just us two, me and you, me and you ♪ All right, so the next day, we are going to be working on the flooring. So this is the best part, I swear. Flooring and paint makes a huge difference. But at Ollie's, they sell some vinyl flooring, and it comes in a really large roll, and you just cut it to fit the space, and that is it. You lay it down, you tape down the corners, the edges. You can even use adhesive on your floor to make sure that it's really secure. But for this room, all I needed to use was tape on the high-traffic area, which is just by the front door, or by the door of where the laundry room is. So I took all my measurements, then we took it to our driveway, laid it out, and I'm gonna go ahead and measure it and cut it out here, just so it's a little bit easier to work with, versus trying to open it up, lay it out in the room, and then cut it. I tried to do that in the past, and it was a complete fail. So definitely recommend laying it out in your yard, measuring out the room, and just making yourself like a little rough draft on a piece of paper. That way, you know where to make your measurements and your cuts. ♪ Just feel so lucky, oh no ♪ ♪ I can't believe I'm falling into your arms ♪ All right, guys, so the flooring's in. I just gotta put the baseboards down, and nail those up, and that's gonna be it for the flooring. So that went pretty smooth. It is beautiful. I love the colors. Oh my gosh, it's just, it's gorgeous. It's the prettiest floor. You can see it's a little dirty, because I've been going in and out, but yeah, it's looking really good. Over here, I've already cut all of my trim. I'm just like laying it out. I had to paint it. So that's what I'm waiting on to dry, and then I'll get the trim up. Today, I will be saving my washing machine. Or actually, this is not my washing machine. This is the dryer. Sorry, I got them two confused, but this is the dryer, and it has a lot of rust spots on it. It was totally my fault, but it happens, so I'm going to just kind of sand it down so it's smooth again, wipe it clean, and then I'm gonna be taking this, I thought it was appliance paint. I ordered it from Lowe's, and this is what they gave me, but it's basically like a acrylic paint, I believe, and it's meant for outdoors, but it's really, really nice. I really loved it. I think it did a great job at covering the rust stains, and I'm hoping that it lasts, and I will keep you updated on this, but like I said, I thought I was buying appliance paint, and that is just what they gave me. I'm assuming maybe they substituted it, but either way, it worked out just fine, and it looked brand new again. While I worked on painting the dryer, I had my husband go ahead and hang up the light. The best part about this light was that it was only $28. You just can't beat that, and it's really pretty, so I love that. I will link it below, and hopefully it's still in stock by the time I get this video up, but now we're gonna go ahead and bring in the washer and dryer, and we're also gonna go ahead and carry in the cabinet that I purchased for the wall. Whenever you walk into the door and turn to the right, I really wanted to have like a counter space area to where I could fold laundry, maybe even edit at night. I just really wanted to have that extra storage and counter space for in this room, so here is the new cabinet that we got. All right, so I have two of these one by sixes. Hi, hello. Well, hi there. And I'm gonna cut these and make them into a super, can you stop? Seriously. I'll make these into a really thick shelf, so just one really thick, almost like a beam-like shelf, so I think it'll be really pretty, so we'll see how it goes. All right, so originally when I ordered the wood, I thought that I had enough, but I didn't, so I just had to kind of make it work for the moment until I could get back to the store, so I just added a few bracing pieces that went underneath that original board. Also, they were screwed into studs, and then I just took my 18 gauge nail gun and nailed this one by six on the front of the other shelf, attaching it to the bracing that I added as well so it's nice and sturdy, and it worked out great. Excuse me. Ma'am, excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me, you're in my way. I can't see anything. Okay, so I had the greatest idea. I was going to just buy another cabinet to go over here in the corner, but instead, I'm gonna make some corner shelves, so what I did, sorry if you can hear that. I'm trying to hold the tripod. I took and I cut a 45 degree angle going opposite directions of each other, and it sits perfectly, so I'm just gonna build a little frame, add a really thin piece of plywood to the top, and then I have some DIY shelves for over here in the corner, and it's gonna look so pretty, and I'll hang a plant from it or something like that. I think it's gonna look so much nicer than just doing a plain cabinet. All right, so whenever you walk in the door, first thing that I notice is the new floors. I'm so excited. I had the plywood flooring in here, and then we had a rug, and then we had this rug on top of that rug. It was just, it was a mess, so having the new floors definitely made the space look cleaner, just feels better, feels like an actual laundry room, not a shed, so that's nice, and then coming this way, I built the little shelf that's above the washer and dryer. Dylan installed the new light for me. That turned out really nice, and then coming this way, we have all of the cabinetry, so everything will be matching once it's all painted, but right now, it's just, this is the part where I'm telling you guys. This is where it's like, eh, is it gonna look good? But trust me, I know it's going to. Okay, so now we're gonna go ahead and start working on painting the cabinets, and this is whenever everything kinda started to come together, you know, like the vision I had in mind, so I worked on taking these off, and I am gonna take a sanding block, and just gently sand the front of these cabinets, because they are kinda rough to the touch. These are the same unfinished cabinets that I've used on my kitchen island. I also used them to build a full pantry, and they just have a rough texture, so you wanna make sure to sand that down first and get a nice, smooth finish. That way, when you apply your primer and your paint, it doesn't look super textured. It looks nice and smooth, just like you bought the cabinets right from the store. And for the primer, I am using the Valspar Multi-Surface White color. I just picked this up from Lowe's. It was about $8. All right, so after getting all of the cabinets primed and let them dry for, I would say I let them dry probably for about an hour, nothing any longer than that, because I was super impatient, and I went in with the color Iron Ore by Sherwin-Williams, and it is stunning. I would say that it's a little bit lighter than the Peppercorn, in my opinion. At least in my space, it was. This room is very bright and has a lot of natural light coming in from the big window in the door, and maybe that's why, but it did have a little bit more of a gray tone to it than it looks unlined. All right, y'all, so I got the second coat on the outside of the cabinets done and it's looking much, much better. I'm so happy with it so far. I love the color. I think it looks so good. So I am gonna finish up all of the cabinet painting tomorrow. I'm gonna let this fully dry. I will finish up the inside of the cabinets tomorrow with the second coat, but what I did was I just wrapped up my paintbrush in a baby wipe and then stuck it into a Ziploc bag and put this can, or this roller and everything into a bag as well, just so it stays nice and moist. I don't have to worry about, you know, rinsing out my brushes every time. It's a new day. So that's very, very helpful if you are working on a big project that takes a little bit more time. So these are the wood panels that I'm gonna use for the countertop. So they are the pine edge glued panel. These were 18.88 a piece, I believe. I'll be sure to link them below just in case. But what my plan is is to put these two together, slide them against the wall, and then mark them right here with a pencil so I know where to cut them. And then I'm gonna add a one by two, or one by, it's either a one by one or a one by two. I'm gonna add that around the edge to make it look nice and thick, like a nice thick piece of wood. Kind of like a DIY butcher's block. Very similar to what I did in my kitchen for my kitchen island. And then my plan is to stain the countertop, these two shelves, and the shelving that I have over here, all the same colors. All right, so after moving around the wood on the countertop a little bit, I noticed that there wasn't enough bracing right here in the center of this cabinet. So I quickly added a piece of wood here and nailed it up really good with my nail gun just to make sure that the boards didn't try to like cave in or anything. If I ever put like a heavy laundry basket or like any tools on the center of the countertop, I didn't want it to kind of like bow inward. And so that bracing really did make a difference. Once I got the countertop all in place and nailed in, I went ahead and added my one by two boards that are gonna go along the edge to give the illusion of a butcher's block. Once again, using my 18 gauge nail gun, I am nailing this in. I was actually using nails that were a little bit too long for what I needed, but they still worked. And sometimes you just gotta use what you got on hand. So I'm just gonna apply a few nails and I'm gonna sand down the edges. That way there's no rough areas, especially that corner. I wanted to make sure that I rounded that off because it's like right when you walk in the door, I didn't want like the kids to come running and trip and it just, yeah, it scared me at being super, super sharp. So I sanded that and rounded it off. Also sanded the top really quick. And then we're gonna go ahead and move on to staining. All right y'all, so I have two pieces of wood that are gonna be out in the shed as far as the countertop goes. And I also have some pre-stain here that I'm going to apply and I'm gonna test out some new stain colors and see which one I like the best. All right, so here's the stain colors. I have tested out a few. So down here, so this piece of wood has the wood conditioner on it and this one does not. So right here in this section, I have special walnut. Down here, we have driftwood. This is also driftwood and that is also special walnut. And I feel like with the wood conditioner, it almost made it very yellow. And I think I'm leaning more towards not using the wood conditioner and just going with the special walnut. All right y'all, so total shocker here. I ended up not even using the stain colors that I just shared with you in that video clip. I ended up using this color called Kona and it is beautiful. I absolutely loved it. This is a polyurethane and stain mixture and I just think it was just a perfect color for this space. So that's what I ended up using. And I'm just using an old stained up microfiber towel and making sure to wear a glove this time. Y'all see that? Y'all check it out. She's got a glove on. I usually throw a Walmart bag or something over my hand. I'm trying. I'm trying to gather up all the right supplies but I'm super forgetful. And I go to the store and the last thing on my mind is the professional things. That's why sometimes a bag works better. But anyway, I got my glove on and I'm really rubbing in the stain to make sure it's nice and even. And this did take me a while because I was almost out of stain. You guys, I literally had just enough to do this project. It worked out perfectly. But because I only had just enough, I really had to buff it in and make it stretch. So I did it and it turned out really pretty. And I decided to also stain these little shelves up here in the corner the same color. ♪ Your face when you're smiling ♪ ♪ It's the only thing that saves me ♪ ♪ Hey, I don't know if I told you ♪ ♪ I think you're beautiful, can't wait to hold you ♪ ♪ Pull me up when I'm falling down to you ♪ ♪ You pull me up when I'm falling down into my eyes ♪ All right, so after all the painting and staining is done, it's now time to add the hardware to my cabinets. And this part was super terrifying because I had to drill holes in the perfectly painted cabinets. I was so terrified. But I found this hack online where you take a piece of masking tape, add it to the back of the handle, and that is your template, especially if you don't have one on hand. It's not something that we all remember to buy, especially when you're working on a project. There's other things on your mind, you know? So anyway, we, or I, just laid out my little template, took my drill bit and pre-drilled holes so that way the wood wouldn't split, and I added my handles all by myself. I was so proud, you guys, because to me, this is one of the hardest parts. Look at Zoe. She's so nosy. I just love it. ♪ It's about you ♪ ♪ This is something that I know for sure ♪ ♪ It's just something about you ♪ ♪ I just want more ♪ ♪ Tell me what you wanna do right now ♪ ♪ Tell me what you wanna do tonight ♪ ♪ I really don't care as long as I'm with you, oh ♪ ♪ Look into my eyes, you can use them as a mirror, babe ♪ And just like that, you have new handles on your cabinets and you don't need any help to do it. You can do it by yourself, too. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the past couple years sharing with you guys on YouTube. I feel like my projects have definitely gotten bigger and more intense and I'm doing a lot more things on my own, which makes me super proud, but I also just wanna encourage you guys to try these things by yourself, too, because I know you can do it. Trust me, I cannot tell you how many times I have said, I can't do that, I'm too scared to touch the saw, but over time and with practice, I finally got it and it feels so good to do these things. But now it's time for decor. So I ran to Walmart and got some fancy glass jars that were super cheap, by the way. The biggest one was only $13, which I felt like was really affordable, but I also grabbed my favorite laundry detergent, some baking soda, some dollar packs of clothespins, and grabbed some things from around my house and we're gonna decorate the laundry room now. So I hope you guys enjoy. ♪ I'm in style, sleeves rolled up, glasses on ♪ ♪ You make that smile and my heart starts racing ♪ ♪ When I'm with you, when I'm with you ♪ ♪ I miss being with you, it's like never ending sunshine ♪ All right, so of course, I have to share with you a quick before and after. This is my favorite part of the video. So here's a reminder of how the laundry room looked and this is what it looks like now. ♪ Let you go now ♪ ♪ Sipping on a beer, sing along to our favorite songs ♪ ♪ All I want is you, you make my world spin round and round ♪ ♪ Sometimes I don't know what to do ♪ ♪ Cause my heart starts racing ♪ I'm just nervous there's tape back there in the back. I forgot to get that down, oops. Don't mind that. ♪ I miss being with you, it's like never ending sunshine ♪ ♪ Into each other's eyes, I could let you go now ♪ All right y'all, so I figured I would walk through and give you a quick little tour of the space. Oops, I should turn on the light. There we go. So, I decided to keep it super, super simple. I just threw a few of my favorite photos of us up here just so that when I'm in here doing laundry, have a really good reminder of why I do laundry and how important my family is to me. So I love that. I bought these from Walmart, these little wool dryer balls. So I've never tried them. I'm gonna give it a shot. I just like the little packaging. I thought it was really cute. I put a basket here with a towel just for video purposes. But honestly, that basket is probably gonna catch all the lone socks that end up on the floor or at the bottom of the dryer somehow and I forget to grab it. So that'll come in handy. We did the new flooring. The flooring is from Ollie's. My handles on the cabinetry are from Amazon. Countertop I did just put together to a one by, I think these are 10 boards, and added some trimmer on the edge to make it look like a butcher's block. Very inexpensive project. Over here I got some glass jars just to make it look a little Pinterest worthy. We have my laundry soap, which is the Arm & Hammer. Oops, that was so loud. The Arm & Hammer baking soda. And then these are literally just for looks. I mean clothespins. But I mean honestly I could probably use them. I would like to have a line like in the summertime so we might put one together. Up here I have a little basket. It has nothing in it at the moment, but I'm sure it'll get some use eventually. I have a little plant. Don't mind the cabinetry, it's a little off. It's like shiny in some areas and not in others. It doesn't make any sense. I don't know what happened there. We're rolling with it though. I added some puck lights that I had from Amazon. I added some greenery into a jar actually. This was a jar at one point, but I never use it. So it's a new vase. I added some bead board here, and I got these really inexpensive hooks from Walmart. These are just what holds our dog's leashes, winter coats, stuff like that. So I have that there. And then I just had this random basket so I stuck it on the wall. Lots of storage space. So I'm really, really excited about that. Up here in the top cabinet, I have just some extra laundry soap, baking soda, a cleaner, a breeze, you know, random stuff. I do need to do a few more paint touch-ups. I wasn't completely done, but your girl needs a break. This project took a long time. It was a lot of work. So yeah, that's the laundry room. Okay, so that's it for this laundry room makeover. I really hope you enjoyed. Y'all let me know in the comments below what you think, and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye, y'all. Somehow.