Laundry Room, Before

 I'm exposing my soul here for all to see.  This room is a disaster and I honestly never thought I would be repairing it before I got to the bathroom.  Welcome to my nightmare, please do not judge.  The room was not part of the original interior of the home, from what I've gathered.  It was an afterthought and probably originally a patio that lead into the garage.  Somewhere along the lines, it became an interior room for storage, a wash room, and a catch-all for clutter and spiderwebs.

The damaged crack in the ceiling.  For now I will be quick fixing it with joint compound until the proper time to remove the whole ceiling and replace it with acutal gypsum board.  The ceiling appears to be some type of lightweight late '50s particle board slathered with a skim layer of texturing c. 1990.

We know the ceiling leaked, Mark has told me all about it.  I think it leaked before he bought the house too, then when the tweakers "remodeled" the house and did the texturing and "painting" it was applied to an already deteriorated surface.  The light fixture will be replaced with something pretty.  Naked lightbulbs are tacky!

I scraped it clean of all loose pieces and will be repairing tomorrow afternoon.

I have hated this beast for a logn time.  I finally figured otu what annoys me about it (and no I'm not talking about the clutter).  It's the color.  I will be repainting it white, removing the tracking for the sliding doors that I burned, and eventually having Derrick install actual cupboard doors.

I think once it has proper cupbaord doors and it's white, it should be less hateful to me.

I will improve this.  The heap in front of the hamper has been put away already.  Still not sure where that end table/lamp will be moving to.

It really needs paint.  I think we also need a better place to feed the cat.

Paint will help!

Phase 1 of organizing.  Clean out all unusable pieces of fabric and fold the pieces I'm keeping.

Two tubs folded nicely and labeled!

Oboviously my version of this assignment for the organizational challenge will be a bit more involved.  I will be doing 2x the work.

To do:
- Repair damaged ceiling sections
- Paint ceiling (ugh!  I hate painting ceilings.)
- Repair cracks in walls, add patches to holes, etc to minimize heat/cooling loss
- Paint walls
- Remove tracking for old doors off cabinet
- Paint cabinet
- Doors for cabinet (long term project here!)
- Remove clutter
- Organize and deep clean
- New feeding station for cat
- Storage cupboard for vacuums, mops, cleaning products