DIY - Update your laundry room with Beadboard.

- March 16, 2012

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??