Laundry Room Madness

I have linked up today with Rhoda from Southern Hospitality and Susan at Between Naps on the Porch. Such lovely women....who don't know me from a hole in the wall....but with whom I have so much in common. I have decided to show you my laundry room make-over even though it isn't quite finished.....because frankly, if I wait 'til I'm done....you may never see it.
A while ago Jim went to Arizona for a few days and left me to contemplate the sad state of the laundry room. When we moved in 2 years ago, the color (2 tone pinkish rusty blah) didn't bother me. It was, after all, only the laundry room. No one would really see it.....right?? Sure. Unless the garage door is open and then it becomes Grand Central Station. The longer we have lived here the more distressing the color has become. So with so much time on my hands....I went and bought paint. I have read a lot of blogs over the last year and have jotted down various shades of wonderful that I have wanted to try. One that has popped up frequently has been Tobacco Road from Lowes. I managed to get the "recipe", since it has been discontinued, and took it to Fargo. I will just tell you right now I am TERRIBLE at "before" photos. I just get so excited to get started (so I can be finished) that I forget to document the "before". Here are a couple of laundry room "befores". Obviously this is after I took down the border. I did get a photo of it laying around. (The blue sticky notes have been on the closet door since 2/10/08. They are laundry instructions that I left for my kids just before I went to stay with my Mom....it turned into a month stay to help my Dad after Mom my passed away and I just can't stand to take them down yet.)
It's not a terrible border. Just not my thing right now. It was (thankfully) easy to take down.
I painted 2 coats on the walls and hung a new mirror with a cute saying on it. I got the mirror at a yard sale this summer and wanted to put it in my daughter's room. She didn't really want it...so I kept it!
I transformed this framed art piece into a lovely vinyl letter sanctuary.

These are some of my Good Will finds that I have spray painted and put on the shelves. The shelves are also holding my owls while the pumpkins have taken over the living room.
The 2 small shelves were found at Good Will, the larger one was in my closet.

I got a cute little lamp that needed a new paint job for the big shelf. Now I just need to decide how to refinish the lamp shade. It really is dreary.

More vinyl for the wall and it is mostly finished. I am going to paint the door that goes into the garage. Someone painted it to look like an oak door. It's not. It's metal...and it should be black. That an a few changes to the accessories and it will be finished.
I would love to hear what you think about it. What would you do differently? Make sure you go check out what Rhoda and Susan have been up to. They really do have some fabulous ideas.