DIY - Update your laundry room with Beadboard.

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DIY - Update your laundry room with Beadboard.:
Hello Craft-o-maniac fans!  I'm Nicole from Thrifty Decorating and I'm so excited to be sharing my first project as Jen's DIY/Decorator contributor!

I am excited to share my ideas about how to make big changes to your home with very little money and time!

The easiest way to make a change in a room is through paint color and what is better than FREE paint!

If you're like me, then you have gallons of half-used paint cans sitting somewhere in your garage.  One way that I can do a project for little or no money is to reuse paint from those cans or SWAP PAINT with a friend!

The mustard yellow that was on your kitchen walls 3 years ago may be exactly what a friend has been wanting to put in her half bath!

For this laundry room project, I found about 1/3 a gallon of paint leftover from my kitchen makeover.

Here are some "before" pictures of my laundry room....the color was called latte, but it reminded me of sitting inside a cup of lukewarm hot cocoa.....but it was leftover and free, so I used it!


You can see white spots where I used to have wire shelving....I ran out of paint and wasn't able to touch up those spots when we added built-in shelving a couple of year ago....those spots drove me crazy!



So here's the reveal.....all that this makeover involved was leftover paint, one roll of beadboard wallpaper, and some foam chair rail and trim!



I love the response of my one son....he walks into the laundry room, turns around and says, "Did we get new lights in here??"  Uhm...no......did you miss the other changes??



My total cost was $30.00!
 Beadboard wallpaper:  $15.00 available at Lowe's 
Brushes and rollers: $5.00 
1 piece of foam chair rail:  $7.00 at Carter Lumber
1 piece of foam trim:  $3.00 at Carter Lumber

Wood shelf: FREE!  Wood just sitting around

Everything else:  FREE!  I just shopped my house for the blue mason jars and


And because we all love before and after shots...


Truly...you are able to make BIG changes to your home for very little money!



LOVE THE BEAD BOARD NICOLE. The after is gorgeous. WELL DONE MY FRIEND. 
Make sure to visit  Nicole at Thrifty Decorating. I am so thrilled to have her as one of my monthly Contributors.

 

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