Building a Basement Bar

Ryan used MDF to build this built-in that goes right into some wasted space we had under the stairs.

Here is picture BBBI (before bar built ins)

My parents had that little fridge in their garage forever, we decided to give it a new home:)

The sink was kind of a last minute decision, but now that we have it I am so glad we put it in.  It is so nice to empty out drinks and rinse out ice-cream bowls.

We took the left over tile from the bathroom and used it as a backslash here.  Anywhere we could save money we tried to without going cheap in quality of course.

With a little stain and some trim paint, it is starting to look like an actual bar.

Ryan added trim to the MDF to give it a richer look.

Here is what you see walking down the stairs.

and the finished product!!!!  I finally have somewhere to put all those neat glasses we got for our wedding!

Those sconces on the right were one of my favorite GoodWill finds $4 for both of them!!! I didn't even have to paint them:)

Last Part of the Laundry room

Again, forgot to take a before picture:(  Ryan had already put these shelves in before I said "oh WAIT....I forgot to take a before pic"  Sorry, just picture this space with no shelves:)

Now I just have to find 4 matching baskets that are NOT $20 a piece!  I just think that's crazy!

Home made Home signs

We just recently gave our laundry room some lovin( Check out the process here), and with that I made some word art to display...

Here are some supplies I used

Gotta love scrap book paper and Mod Podge, "Oh the places you'll go" with those supplies:)

Some scrap wood, and acrylic paint in a dark coffee and cream coffee color

I Mod Podged the scrap book paper to the wood piece and waited for it to dry, after that I free handed the word SOAP with the dark coffee colored paint

DONE AND DONE!

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Given some Lovin to the Laundry room

Our set up for laundry is a little strange...you actually have to go though our laundry room to get to our bathroom on the main floor.  (Not my favorite part of our house)  Ryan and I have been brain storming for awhile on how to make this room look more attractive.  We were going to put cabinets, but when we went shopping for them, I was in shock!  No way was I going to spend over $200 dollars for cabinets I didn't even like that much.  So it has looked that way for over 3 years now, until last week when the DIY in me took over and I explained my idea to Ryan. 

No sooner did I explain then we were off to Menards to get the trim pieces.  (We already had the MDF board for the shelves, Ryan just had to cut it)

I got the iron L brackets from Hobby Lobby 50% off, thank you very much!  They were $4 each!!!

After some white trim paint we already had, here is the finished product.  I would say much more attractive then the before:)