Laundry Makeover: Part 1

When we moved in to our house, I think I went colourblind. For some reason I thought it might be nice to have a bright red in-tray and a bright blue binder sitting in our laundry (actually I think ‘some reason’ might be because they were really cheap).

Anyway, when I decided to give our laundry a makeover, I thought that rather than buying new ones, I would jazz them up with some matching colours.

I was shopping at Kmart one day when I saw a nice quilt set for $8. Can you believe that? I wouldn’t put it on my bed, but I was more than happy to chop it up and use it for crafty things :). First use? Covering the binder and in-tray!

Voila, the in-tray…

Annnnd the binder. :)

Next, I made some scrappy bows for my recycle and dry cleaning baskets. I bought these baskets for about $15 each from a cheap ‘junk’ store – pretty good value for wicker!

Finally, using one of the pillow cases from the quilt set, I made a cover for the top of our washing machine. I simply cut the size I needed, folded the raw edges to the inside of the pillowcase, and painted the whole thing with a 1:1 mixture of PVA and water, in order to make it water-proof.

P.S. Notice the tip jar from last week’s post? :)

I love how easy and cheap it was to bring some colour coordination to the laundry, and I’ve got loads of fabric left over for anything else I want to do in future.

In the meantime, the next post will show some of the handy organisational bits and pieces I used to tame the laundry cupboards!