Laundry Room Bling

I'm not really a girly-girl, but when Craig asked me to pick out the hardware for the laundry room, I knew exactly what I wanted: crystal knobs and library drawer pulls.  As you might have guessed, we're really big buy-now-install-later* kind of people.  So as usual, we headed over to Home Depot a few weeks ago to buy the hardware and then ended up tossing them into a random bucket in the basement until installation day.

Well friends, that day was today.  Here's what the cabinets look like now that Craig is finished with them:

And few close-ups of the knobs and pulls since I love them so much (almost as much as the guy who installed them):

{ Don't mind the drywall dust making an appearance in this shot.  I'm serious when I say we have it all over the house. }

I wasn't sure how the library pulls would look on the Adel drawers, but they look pretty darn good:

And if you don't like where they're placed, "it's too late now" (as dad would say).

If you take a really close look at the picture above, you'll see a little more bling in upper right-hand corner.  Yes, the faucet and backsplash have  finally been installed!

We've had the sink in for a while, but I realized that I hadn't taken a picture of it yet.  It is the deepest sink I've ever seen.  I'm really looking forward to finally being able to handwash clothes (and future kiddos) in this thing.

I love this room: 

We only have a couple of things left on the to-do list:

• install a floor transition;
• install the window and door casing;
• install the baseboards;
• build a washer/dryer enclosure (like this minus the marble) and a hinged shelf to cover the taps above the washer;
• sew a cafe curtain;
• finish the fridge nook;
• hack an ironing board;
• build a drying rack;
• install the TV; and
• add some pretty accessories.

Yes, the list has grown a bit from before.  Our mission is to complete everything on this list by the end of May.  I may have to use up some more of my vacation days...


* We do not endorse doing this, but we had been burned in past by not buying something when we should have.  It turns out that although we are able to guarantee that we get what we want using this method, it's a heck of a lot more expensive to do it this way.  The faucet is now $50 less that what we paid, and the cabinet doors and drawer fronts are also cheaper now than when we got them.  Damned if you don't, damned if you do I guess.  Sigh.