Our PPOR was built in 1984, which probably tells you a good deal about the laundry.
The rest of the house over the years has been renovated (kitchen, bathrooms, paint, flooring etc), but the poor old laundry is still original condition.
Beige square floor tiles (in perfect unchipped condition). Beige splashback and skirting tiles (about every third one has a gumleaf design). A huge metal laundry sink with (very rusty) metal cupboard underneath. Brown handled taps.
The laundry is galley shaped, doors at each end, toilet and linen cupboard off of one long wall. Plumbing and electrical on other long wall. Small window near the door.
We have nice modern laundry appliances - front load washer and condenser drier and a budget of about 2k (max) to do improvements. My thoughts are get rid of trough, build cupboards and bench along wall with washer, drier under with a clothes hamper cupboard and one storage cupboard. Small ceramic sink with nice taps (bit bigger than bathroom sink, but not the massive bath-the-dog thing that is there now). Either some nice shelving or cupboards over. Glass splashback instead of tiles, paint doors and window frame, buy nice taps, and a nice bright rug for the floor as we can always change the tiles at a later date when I can no longer look at them.
What do you think? Can you think of any ideas? Are there any current trends you would recommend or avoid?
By the way, Mr Minx is a glazier (amongst other things) so the splashback will be at cost with no fitting charge. He is also capable of fitting kit cupboards as he did our kitchen so we should save some cash there. We do need to allow a bit for plumbing/electrical as I want to hide the washer taps and power points and add a power point for the iron etc.
Would love some ideas, or if anyone has done a laundry reno some photos would be great.
Thanks for any help you can give.
The rest of the house over the years has been renovated (kitchen, bathrooms, paint, flooring etc), but the poor old laundry is still original condition.
Beige square floor tiles (in perfect unchipped condition). Beige splashback and skirting tiles (about every third one has a gumleaf design). A huge metal laundry sink with (very rusty) metal cupboard underneath. Brown handled taps.
The laundry is galley shaped, doors at each end, toilet and linen cupboard off of one long wall. Plumbing and electrical on other long wall. Small window near the door.
We have nice modern laundry appliances - front load washer and condenser drier and a budget of about 2k (max) to do improvements. My thoughts are get rid of trough, build cupboards and bench along wall with washer, drier under with a clothes hamper cupboard and one storage cupboard. Small ceramic sink with nice taps (bit bigger than bathroom sink, but not the massive bath-the-dog thing that is there now). Either some nice shelving or cupboards over. Glass splashback instead of tiles, paint doors and window frame, buy nice taps, and a nice bright rug for the floor as we can always change the tiles at a later date when I can no longer look at them.
What do you think? Can you think of any ideas? Are there any current trends you would recommend or avoid?
By the way, Mr Minx is a glazier (amongst other things) so the splashback will be at cost with no fitting charge. He is also capable of fitting kit cupboards as he did our kitchen so we should save some cash there. We do need to allow a bit for plumbing/electrical as I want to hide the washer taps and power points and add a power point for the iron etc.
Would love some ideas, or if anyone has done a laundry reno some photos would be great.
Thanks for any help you can give.