laundry room

talk about an under-appreciated luxury.  i've been without a laundry room for a little over a month now and i'm literally counting down the days until i can have it back!  however, the temporary loss is not for naught.  the new laundry room will be larger, with more storage, and, best of all, i had carte blanche in designing it as jim new he hadn't earned much say in the design of a room he never enters.

here's the plan.

walls, cabinets, and trim in this: (benjamin moore gray wisp 1570)

counter tops in this: (honed carrara marble)

sheers on the little window in this: (f. schumacher melinda sheer check in aqua)

with a charcoal gray floor laid in a herringbone orientation with an inset border of small carrara marble bricks.

so pretty.  it will certainly make laundry days much more appealing.

playroom

one of the things i'm most looking forward to with this addition is the playroom.  here's what i'm thinking.

i've loved the irregular stripes in this room for so long.  so i'm committing to them.  it just looks like the perfect, playful wall color/pattern.

as for some inexpensive art, i found this artist on etsy and i'm in love with her watercolor animals...i mean, look at that sweet little bunny!  she's in italy (so that makes her automatically cool) and says things with those oh-so-lovely "english-is-my-second-language" grammatical inaccuracies.  so, i've purchased 12 of her mini watercolors ($5 each...can't beat that) and i'm going to have them framed and hung together.  

and, then, for good measure, i bought the watercolor of the bull because i just think he's so handsome and would look fantastic in my office.

i can't wait for holden's toys to have a home other than scattered under foot in the kitchen/family room/really everywhere that i'm running around.