Laundry room redo so far

From a drab olive to periwinkle blue. 

I haven't had a blue room since leaving our old house over 15 years ago.

It started with a $3 blue and white sheet found at a thrift store. It was enough material to make the two sets of curtains. An old white flat sheet was used to line the curtains. I had the blue and white pictures and the blue and white pottery in other places throughout the house. The old laundry room curtains were reused in a bedroom. The old laundry room art was moved into a library corner so everything was shopped from my home. The pansies were two bundles from the Dollar Tree for $2. The other plants were from the crafts supply on hand.

I have an old shower rod I use to dry delicates. I bought a set of mounting brackets to keep it from slipping.

The canisters hold my delicates bags and my dryer wool balls (in use).

Ferns on the window sill

Around the corner is the mud room with two walls of coat hooks. 

Left to do: finish reinstalling the coat hooks and paint another corner, then touch up the trim work with white paint.

$55.00 for a gallon of blue paint and a quart of semi gloss white, 

$6 for the mounting brackets for the drying rod,

$3 for the the sheet, 

$2 for flowers,

$8 for blue tape, 

$6 for caulking / hole filler. 

$5 over my $75 budget because I really needed the tape and new caulk.

If my walls had been a lighter color than the dark olive green I started with, then I could have gotten a less expensive paint. I bought a more expensive blend that guaranteed single coat coverage.

UPDATE:

Over time and with use, some things change in a space. 

The window became too hot for the plants. The summer heat intensifies each year with climate change so that curtain remains closed. We also added an insulation panel to the top half of the window to block out the sun at its most intense time. The door window has been blocked completely due to the heat. Curtains hide that modification.

The faux flowers became dust catchers and were removed. Some of the jars moved onto the dryer top along with the lamp. As I age I lose half an inch to an inch in height every decade and the reach for my former 5'8" frame became a little much. Speaking of shrinking, I now use a long wood back scratcher to pull things from the very back of the dryer when unloading. 

I've swapped out some of the pictures and taken some down. I cycle through periods when I just don't like as much visual clutter or dust traps. Take down your pictures and discover the dust that accumulates on the back!

I lowered the curtains so they sweep the floor now. It helps trap some of the heat behind the fabric. I also sewed coins into the corners to weigh the fabric down. 

The shower rod mounted with two brackets remains the most useful addition to the laundry room. With the brackets screwed into the wall, I can hang a heavy damp woolen blanket over it to finish drying.

The dryer was just refurbished for nearly the cost of the original purchase price. We have been stung by recent upgrades and replacements. The newer things break more often and are of lesser quality and much more expensive due to temper tantrum tariff nonsense and corporate greed so I opted for a refurbishment.  The tech stayed several hours, dismantled the dryer completely, replaced old parts, including a non brand part that came original when bought new from Lowe's. That means Lowes sold me something as new but which had been serviced and most likely returned for resale. An NDA prohibits me from discussing another appliance's faulty installation which destroyed half our home's electrical panel. But Lowe's is at the top of the list of places I won't buy appliances from anymore.