Cob Jockey

Things are moving along. Our drywall should get completely done this week, which means I'll be able to paint the ceiling and lay the floor tile next weekend (hooray!). At that point I think my washer and dryer can start living full-time inside the house again.

But I'll still be carrying laundry into the backyard and through Platform 9 3/4 until the project is completely done, since that plywood door is staying up to protect the bird from fumes etc.

That meant that this weekend, I needed to get the washer/dryer platform finished. And in order to finish the platform, I had to aggressively tackle the problem that's plagued me for so long - what color should the cabinets be?

Trimmed out and wood filled

I built the platform the previous weekend, so this weekend was, in order:

• Trim (my husband had to help me miter...I swear I have a mental disability where spatial reasoning is concerned, and he got a perfect score on the spatial reasoning entrance exam to engineering school so...)
• Moulding
• Woodfilling
• Sanding (medium grit)
• Vacuuming
• Wiping down
• Priming
• Caulking
• Sanding (fine grit, repeat vacuuming and wiping)
• Painting - first coat
• Sanding (same as before)
• Painting - second coat

Finishing work is so labor intensive, it's tempting to just half-ass it, especially since most of this platform will be covered with baskets and appliances, buuuuut I convinced myself I want it to look good, so I'm doing it right.

Test fit with the slide out rack that will get mounted to the platform, and the laundry basket. Everything looks good.

On Saturday I got up to the caulking done, and then spent several hours at my computer tackling my creative block over what the wall and cabinet colors should be (because this piece needs to match the cabinets across the room) and looking at inspiration photos of laundry rooms...

And that turned out to be really freaking hard because almost every laundry room on Pinterest and Google Images LOOKS THE SAME. So many of them are a white-walled, shiplap-covered, "[adjective] farmhouse" style, like modern farmhouse or coastal farmhouse or industrial farmhouse. What even IS a coastal farmhouse, really?

You think I am exaggerating, I am not. Out of all the rooms in the modern American house, the one that has most firmly coalesced around the show Fixer Upper is the laundry room.

I don't begrudge anyone for liking this style, if you love it, you love it, but variety is the spice of life you know?  After scrolling through hundreds of laundry rooms you could barely tell apart, I was ready to run the opposite direction. I mean, let's face it, I'm a "swimming upstream" kind of person anyway, haha.

In the end, I went with...

Our architecture school roommate described it as "1920's Art Deco teal". Possibly the furthest thing from "[adjective] farmhouse" 😂

YEAH. I'm feeling it. It's nearly impossible to photograph, both of our phones want to turn it blue:

It is nothing at all like the color it appears to be here!

When it doesn't look anything close to that color to the human eye.  It has a lot of green in it. "Blue Peacock" is the name of the color.

This is pretty close

With making a statement this loud on the cabinets, the rest of the room will need to be subtle, and that's okay with me.

Just no shiplap.