a) sliding wooden doors in front of the laundry area
b) two rows of wire shelves inside the area, above the washer and dryer
This layout, with today's washer and dryers, sucks. Because to contain the washer and dryer behind the wooden doors, you really can't buy one of the new sets of machines. So, we decided screw it, we'll buy the machines we want, and take out the doors. And take out the soffit (only build to hold the doors). And take out the shelves. And put in cabinets.
As you can see in these pictures, the doors are long gone, the bottom shelf is gone, and I'm working on tearing out the rest of the soffit.
Stopped at Ikea on the way back from Selfridge last week. We had quite a debate about whether to go with white cabinets with white doors, or, the same cabinets as the kitchen (dark brown with birch interior). Ended up with the white, but, Ikea doesn't keep the white doors in stock, so, we hung the cabinets and the pantry this weekend and we'll add the doors later. Still need to cinch/gang the cabinets together, and still need to finish the drywall where the soffit disappered.
