Mud room/ Laundry room - before and afters (well, partially dones)

Again, like most of the house, rather than a full on renovation of an area (which we can't afford) we are doing a lot of "cover ups". Basic fixes and painting to make the room look better until we can get to the actual renovations. Espceially on areas like this one, where there isn't a need to really renovate for awhile (other than the fact that it looks gross). So the mud room/laundry room got a painted facelift. The bathroom down there and the basement are on the list of major renos and when we do them we will be re drywalling the two rooms. For now I just wanted to paint it and fix the holes to make it a bit nicer looking.
I first wanted to get some of the rust off the pipes so we could paint them. This is what they looked like.


So I start scrubbing and discover that they are not grey as I thought but ... WHITE!!





Lovely. Some more pictures of before for you.

The laundry room

Close up of the laundry sink

looking into the mud room

After spending a holiday weekend freezing because the heat wasn't working and wondering how we would find the money to fix the furnace on the holiday weekend - we found out why there had been tape over the outlet. Yup, it turns off the furnace! Good thing to know when you buy the house.



Ater pictures (okay so these are in progress pictures, the tub and more piping needs to painted, the oh so lovely curtains needs to be taken down and the laundry room has been cleaned but not painted. The floor needs a few more coats as well but we have more pressing renos right now)