Laundry Room (October 2020)

When we bought the house, we decided that in addition to tiling the kitchen, we wanted to do the laundry room ourselves as well.  So when we got back from Washington, we ordered our washer and dryer.  And now that we have gained some knowledge by tiling our kitchen, we are ready to take on the laundry room.  It has the washer and dryer hookups and plumbing for a sink, but that's it, no cabinets, no sink, no tile.

We ordered American Woodmark cabinets at home depot, and were able to get a perfect match to our existing cabinets.  American Woodmark is made in Kingman, AZ, which is only a few hours driv from here.  Steve was able to look at our existing cabinets to see how to connect them to each other.  Once we had them ready to hang, we screwed a level 2x4 into the wall to help support the weight of the upper cabinets.  Then I held them in place while Steve attached them to the wall.  The holes from the 2x4 will be covered when we tile the backsplash.

After the cabinets were installed, we installed some floating shelves.  They are super cool and really easy to install.  Now we just need to install the counter tops, backsplash and sink.  We've chosen our tile.  You can see a piece of it sitting in the foreground.  It is from Floor and Decor.

This is a larger format tile, so the counter tops will be easy with only one or two cuts per tile, but the backsplash and sink cutout will be more difficult.

Steve did a great job cutting around the electric outlets.  Since we used large format tiles, we used a leveling system to help ensure they were all flat.

Our completed laundry room.

With two successful projects down, we are feeling really good.  We have one more large indoor project that we would like to tackle, but it is a big one.  We are feeling very intimidated!