Beach Theme Laundry Room

As some may know, we moved into our new home just a few months ago so this will be our first Summer here at Spottswood Place.  Because the back yard patio and pool are just outside the laundry room, I wanted to give a "Beach" theme to our laundry room.  My hubby, grandma and guests will walk through the laundry room into the bathroom to change from their wet bathing suits into some dry clothes, I thought giving the laundry room a beach theme was a brilliant idea if I may say so myself.

I start out to show you my laundry room.  Since I was off of work this whole past week, this was one of my projects.  I started out by giving the laundry room a new color.  It was an eggshell color and now has a sandy brown tone.  My laundry room is off the kitchen.

Opposite view from last picture.  This is a fairly good size laundry room but it does have 4 doors.  One leads into the kitchen, another to the back patio/pool, another one to the garage and the last one into a bathroom.  There's still plenty of room for the washer and dryer.

This is the view of the outdoors as I stand in front of the washer & dryer.

This is the wall I'm going to decorate today (please excuse my laundry loads)

The wall I want to decorate is to the right.  That door there leads into the bathroom as my back is to the outdoors.

I plan to build a two-shelf unit above the washer and dryer but not today.

My daughter Elise's idea, I bought this box of 3 mason jars with a twisted metal handle for only $7.99 at Kirklands.  When we visited Pottery Barn an hour later, they were selling the jars individually for $7.99!!  Yay for Kirklands!!

The shells and sand I bought at Hobby Lobby.

So simple, I poured the sand in all three jars and threw in a couple of shells in each.  How good does that look?

Top view of one jar

and here they all are.  Aren't they adorable?

I bought these pictures at Kirklands.  Perfect for my beach theme project!!

I also included the best picture of all, a recent picture of my grandson.  His parents took him to VA Beach a couple of weekends ago and his mom is quite the photographer.  Isn't it perfect?  Anyway, I laid out the pictures on the floor, the way I wanted to lay them out on the wall.

From the floor to the wall with a fishnet

I could stare at this picture all day!

I moved the laundry soap and other junk off this shelf and put my beach jars on there, don't they look fantastic?

I also plan to add a lighthouse and some starfish as well as paint the bathroom a very light, soft sky blue and give it a nautical theme.   Can't wait!!!  A lot of the stores that we went shopping too had a great variety of beach theme and nautical decorations. Must be the thing this year and I am thrilled!!  This whole project including the wall paint cost around $75.00  ~isavortheweekend

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