Laundry Room

hey ya'll!  hope everyone had a fun thanksgiving!  we started ours by watching jon run a 4 mile turkey trot through old town and past city park.  we had so much fun we're planning on making it a family tradition.  the weather has been unseasonably warm though so next year when we're standing out in the snow for hours, i'll be wondering why we ever thought it was fun...

here's our picture of thanksgiving:



awesome, huh?  i think it really captures the day ;)  jeanette (on the left) and i did spend hours in this kitchen (with my new appliances!!!!!)(well, that's not the new stove), and kier and karen (basement dwellers) took off to thanksgivings of their own.



on to the laundry room.  let's start the tour in the garage.  so our basement dwellers come and go through the land of bicycles into the laundry room, and down the stairs to their luscious accoutrements.  the ping pong table and fooseball table were both given to us, and we've sold the ping pong table.  normally the girls park over there.

some of you may notice the car.  it's one in a long line of loaners we've been driving this fall while we've replaced nearly every working part in our rendezvous including the engine.  we could've remodeled both our bathrooms by now...

i suggested we just be a biking family the other day, but i suppose with winter upon us that's not totally practical.



we have a mild organizational system by the back door.  every boy has a sock drawer, shoe bucket, coat/backpack hook and bike helmet hook.  there are a few additional hooks mostly for snow pants. 

come on in the laundry room!:



i think it's fairly self explanatory.  new paint on EVERY surface.  (doors, cabinets, railing, window trim, walls and baseboards) and new hardware on cabinets.  the washer and dryer are old, but still kickin'.









pulls are from hobby lobby, and if someone wanted the paint color on the walls i could find it.  it's sherwin williams, and i also painted the garage that color.







hooks are from anthropologie and bench was from ballard designs about 10 years ago.





we pulled all of our christmas stuff out thanksgiving afternoon.  the boys have loved finding all of their christmas books.  many christmas posts in the pipeline!