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Updated: we have a winner! Congratulations, Jen! We hope you enjoy your sweet prize. And special thanks to The Home Depot, Maytag + P&G for this amazing giveaway!

Hello lovelies! Today, we’re back to share a bit more of our laundry room, and a few tips and tricks for making the never ending chore that is laundry… easier! {Stay tuned for the giveaway, below!}

We all know that getting our laundry done can be a total pain in the patookie. I’m also pretty sure it’s my number one complaint when it comes to all things household management. It’s the job that never ends.

Did you know that the average family does around 400 loads of laundry each year? 

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I don’t know about you guys, but this is not surprising at all to us. It can be a little overwhelming, to say the least. Today, I thought I’d share a few tips and tricks about our laundry room that we love … because sometimes, it’s the little things.

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1. Make it light.

Or darken it, or add color, or whatever it takes to get you to love your laundry room. We started out in a builder’s beige nightmare dream. {Sometimes, I feel like people love various shades of brown a little much in our neck of the woods.} This was before we were really ‘going for it’ in our home, and we lived with it this way for a few years. Finally enough was enough, and we decided to make a change.

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If you hate your laundry room, it can make the daunting task of laundry a bit less than inspiring. With a little elbow grease, we decided that it was time to change things up a bit.

I realize that we were very fortunate to have lots of cabinets in our laundry room. This gives us lots of storage, but because of that, it was also very dark and cavernous.

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So operation lighten and brighten was on for us. We were so tired of that dark, overwhelming brown that we painted our cabinets and gave our walls a fresh coat of fun blue.

It totally changed the way I looked at our space.

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We also added some board and batten for a timeless/farmhouse, clean kind of old school feel.

And before we knew it, our laundry room was a lot more appealing for us. Sure, our laundry still piles up occasionally. That’s life. But it gives me the incentive to keep the room looking fresh. We even removed a door which was really cutting off the space, visually. It opens right off of our kitchen and makes everything feel roomier so we keep it clean (most of the time… since everyone and their grandmother can see it).

2. Make it fun. 

Beyond those initial paint and color changes, we added personal touches that up the ante in the looks department. Who says you have to follow “the rules” for a laundry room? Honestly guys… I am too sexy for my laundry. (Who isn’t?!) And I like a fuzzy rug for a shot of welcoming color and something comfy under my toes.

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I love touches of art in unexpected places.

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And I even revamped a bit of a mid-century fabulous gold chandy with some spray paint {on the candles} to add some swag for a fun, not-so-typical-modern look.

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Don’t worry… we just relocated the old one, because once it was hanging, our chain was too short. (We have more on that coming soon. But to read up on how to install a chandelier, be sure to click on over here.)

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Add personal touches that you love, and you’ll feel so much better about that never-ending chore. Because we all know ignoring it, won’t make it go away.

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3. Make it efficient

Again, this will be different for everyone. But for me, it’s the little things. I was so super tired of lifting the giant jugs of detergent that were as large as me over my head to reach my HE washer and dryer. #firstworldproblems. So I decided to make it visually appealing, and easy to access by using drink holders. We love it.

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Our laundry room doubles as a mud room. And triples as craft storage. And though this room is generous, everything is valuable real estate in our home with our family of five. This space is essential.

{Just this year, we did a super purge and organized everything in sight}. Since our kitchen is full of open cabinets, we decided to take advantage of the storage space, here.

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Also, we used hooks to designate a drop zone, and it’s totally changed the way our family uses this room. This wall is so simple, but it’s one of my favorite places in our home. No more tossed jumbles of book bags.

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We also try to keep the counters clear, so that I can fold and organize as needed in this space. This means corralling similar items into baskets, and keeping it as-in-control as I can in the meantime.

See that painted slab of MDF on top of my sink? It gives me more counter space when I’m not using it. Again – the little things.

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So there we are! Just a few things that work for our family. No, not everyone wants an antique ironing board. Maybe it’s not the most useful thing in the whole entire world. But I think it’s gorgeous in its own way. So there it will stay.

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Feeling Ready to get your own laundry room together?

Just a few things you guys will want to know about :

• The Home Depot is a great resource. You guys know that cleaning products, appliances, organizing, storage and decorating items are just a few of the wonderful things they provide. To celebrate the #BrilliantHEClean campaign, Home Depot is offering a $100 gift card with the purchase of a Maytag Powerwash machine & 150 oz. Tide. SCORE, y’all.

• For more inspiration, check out www.tideandmaytag.com for more great tips on organizing the laundry room.

• You can also visit www.tideandmaytag.com to enter the Brilliant Clean sweepstakes. One winner will be chosen at random to receive an e-design consultation by Jenny from The Green Notebook, a Maytag Washer and Dryer, a year’s supply of Tide and $5,000 {!?!?!?!?!} Ten runners up will receive a year’s supply of Tide. WOW.

:: This post was brought to you in partnership with the fabulous P&G, The Home Depot + Maytag. All opinions are 100% ours. Please read our full disclosure pertaining to partnerships and construction here ::

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  1. i need it all! we have a very gross unfinished area of our basement with our washer and dryer in it…. would love to make it anything better!

  2. Where to start…I think I’d give the kitchen a facelift or maybe the master bedroom which has always been neglected! 🙂

  4. We’re buying our first house within the next year, this would stretch our budget for painting and fixing things up!

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  6. The gift card would most likely go towards new flooring in the kitchen. Or maybe a new dishwasher. Or one of a million other projects we have going on all the time. 🙂

  8. I would use it for some storage for our laundry room area…it’s not that practical or functional currently!

  9. So many things we could do with 500 dollars! I would love to build new doors for my kitchen cabinets, but I’m sure my husband would rather put it toward flooring in his basement man cave. Football season is coming up you know 😀

  12. We would luv to win the Home Depot gift card to use towards our basement flooring. Looking to put cork in! This would soooo help! =)

  14. Maybe I should win because my current dryer is doing some crazy things lately…. 😛

  15. I would use the gift card to rip up the floor in our guest room to fix some plumbing and then put new stuff back in so we can move our son downstairs!

  16. I would put that $500 to good use!! We are in need of a new refrigerator so that would get us closer to being able to purchase one.

  20. I would love a $500 gift card to build up my closet… To put all those clean clothes away!

  21. I could use the $500 toward some curb appeal. We need to replace/repair/ paint our soffits and trim.

  23. I would love to re-do our master bedroom! and paint the laundry room, and add more storage to it… The list goes on…

  25. I would definitely use it to add woodwork to my laundry room like yours. It looks great!

  26. My laundry room doubles as my guest bathroom, and it is a disaster! I would start with a new sink and medicine cabinet in there.

  27. i would like to get my washer and dryer in the same room-right now the washer sits in the kitchen while the dryer sadly waits in the laundry room

  28. I love your laundry room! I need to try the drink dispenser idea for soap. Genius! I would use the gift card to add some lights in my laundry (there are NO lights above my washer and dryer – in a basement). I’d also add some cabinets. How fun!

  29. Fantastic laundry room!! We’ve been talking about painting our kitchen cabinets so the gift card from the Home Depot would be fabulous!! Thanks for the chance to win!

  30. I would use it to help us finish our basement! Such an ugly space now, but with the $500, it could be fabulous! 🙂

  31. Our laundry room is adequate. It’s not fantastic, but there is a some storage, a sink, and a counter to fold laundry on. I’d love to create something magical. With 3 kids, I’m in the laundry room all day doing laundry, and it’s not very inspiring or welcoming. I’d love a chance to change that 🙂

  32. I would organize our outdoor laundry/shed into an outdoor laundry and shed! Fix the holes and the ceiling, put up new shelves, and find a way to hide the water heater!

  33. Would put up some cabinets and paint. We don’t have much room for anything else.

  36. Thank you so much for the giveaway! If I won the $500 to Home Depot, we would be using it for new flooring in our kitchen and put the rest toward some built-ins I’m dreaming about for our sun porch. 🙂

  40. I would add cabinets, a flat surface for folding clothes, and a place to hang my delicates!

  41. Your laundry room is fabulous, just like the rest of your house. Love the light and bright and all of the great little details. My laundry room is tiny and needs a huge overhaul, it’s on my list. I’d use the $500 to work on our home office where we’re planning on building a wall of bookshelves and desk. $500 would really help my shoestring budget. 🙂

  45. I’d definitely redo my closet storage! I’ve only got one big closet in my 600 sq foot apartment and it’s laid out so poorly that I know I could get a lot more in there if it was better organized.

  46. I would so love to use that giftcard to put towards new counters or a light fixture for our kitchen. I have to admit I think I have the seven year itch… we’ve been in our home for seven years. And although there’s nothing “wrong” with anything… updates would be spectacular… and a chance to make the place more “us” would be so great!

  48. I just bought my first house in May, and would absolutely use this $500 to give my kitchen an overhaul. I have always dreamed of having white cabinets and a blue tile back splash with pops of yellow!

  50. In the process of buying a fixer upper. So many things I could use this for. The house currently does not have a laundry room (the washer was in the kitchen & the dryer outside. yikes!) Our plan is to add one on. Pick me please 🙂

  51. We recently bought a new home and have soo many uses for that $500 gift card! We’re building a deck in the backyard and could use it for materials, we are planning to finish the basement ourselves, and have many, many more projects on the list that this would be useful for!

  54. There are so many things that I would do.. I have something that I wanted to paint on the wall. I would love to add a basket rack that I found on pinterest. And I need to get the washer that goes with my new dryer. Our laundry room is small and narrow but has loads of potential!!!

  56. I would put that towards a new on demand water heater! And maybe to get some tiling supplies to finally law down the Saltillo that’s been sitting in our garage for 6 months.

  57. I would love better storage and a sink in my laundry room! Thanks for the inspiration!

  58. I wish I had a laundry room to refinish – all we’ve got is a washer and dryer up on cinderblocks in our basement. But it’s a big improvement from havign to traipse down three flights of stairs to the shared laundry room at the old apartment! With $500 for Home Depot, I think I’d use it to by quarter-round to occompany our floor molding, not to mention new tiles for our kitchen floor and sunroom, and some beadboard for the kitchen backsplash, and, and…we just moved in, I could go on and on, haha!

  61. My laundry room is a long skinny hallway with the dreaded wire shelves (why do they install them at giant’s height??!!). Id yank those babies down and put up some stock cabinets with shelves in between. We need storage solutions like mad, so we’d use that giftcard up fast!!

  62. What couldn’t I do with it? Hmm I’d definitely be needing some paint….various rooms in our house need brightening up. And then plants! I love plants, and I would love to fill the patio with them. And then maybe grab a little spray paint for a certain chair that needs help. So fun!

  63. We’re moving in a couple of weeks, so I have a lot of projects coming up. I’d love to use that $500 gift card to update the kitchen – gray paint for the cabinets, white backsplash and new paint for the walls.

  64. There is way too much I could use the $500 for! Paint for my bathroom… want to add board and batten to my master bedroom, mulch for the front yard, new lighting for my master bedroom, replace the tools my teenage son lost over the summer from his various projects, etc etc etc.

  66. I would like to say I would buy something totally fun but I am sure with the money I would buy lots of paint and shelves….maybe even a plant or too!!!

  67. My laundry room is so small. I would get estimates on how to expand it into our family room (I would have to move a wall, it might not be possible). But a girl can dream. If that didn’t work, I would add some covered storage above the washer and dryer and a sorting area. THANK YOU!

  68. Love this room makeover! How bright and cheery it made the laundry room! 🙂 I’d love to do something similar! Take out the dark cabinet doors, paint the cabinets a cheery, light color. Add some storage and some room to work (like a table for folding 🙂 ) So many possibilities! 🙂

  70. We are moving to a new house at the end of the month, so I know I could put that gift card to good use! Kitchen! No–living room! Wait! Laundry room! 🙂 I’ll put it to use 🙂

  72. We would love a luandrey room with storage! We have one measly shelf! A new light fixture,a set of cabinets,and some cute baskets or drying rack is what I would add! I wish we had a bigger luandrey room but I suppose I am lucky to have a small one! Great job on your luandrey room!

  75. Hi Ashley! Love the laundry room. My husband and I are moving soon and will. E setting up our new laundry space and retiring our current stackable unit. So, the $500 gift card would be used on new Maytag HE machines. Thanks for the chance to win. 🙂

  77. Wow! I would use it toward new flooring for my bathrooms and laundry room!! Thanks for the chance to win 🙂

  78. We need to finish our laundry room with some pretty things to cheer it up–and next is our kitchen so this would help out immensely…

  79. I would definitely use it towards my dark and dreary kitchen! those cabinets are dying for some paint, i just need to convince my husband….

  81. We are getting our building permit on monday for an addition to the house we just bought. Part of that addition includes a BIG laundry/dog room!!

  82. I would love to use the Home Depot $500 gift card towards some beautiful new countertops for my kitchen!!!

  83. I shared this on facebook! Love your laundry room. Wish I had all that room : )

  85. I just bought a house and don’t know where to start on how I would spend that giftcard! Probably on paint, since we have a lot of rooms with a beige/brown color. 🙂

  87. I still have several spots in my new house that need some love – most notably replacing some light fixtures that I despise…..that’s how I would use the $$.

  89. Having a 30 year old washer and dryer, I would most definitely LOVE a new, more efficient set. Hubby insists on fixing ours over and over and over and over again. Every square inch of our laundry room needs HELP!

  90. I have a dark scary basement where the washing machine and dryer live. It is not pretty. If the area were to receive a facelift perhaps the children would be more willing to do laundry. Wishful thinking…..

  92. I LOVE decanting the detergent! It truly is the little things, right?! I’d definitely spend SOME of that 500 buying a cute container, haha! 🙂 As always, thanks for the inspiration!

  93. The gift card would go towards all the little projects on our to do list that we have been neglecting because money has been a bit tight right now. Our laundry is in a hall closet and the tracking on the doors needs to be replaced so, we would probably start there 🙂

  95. I would redo the floors in my home, they are in desperate need of an overhaul

  96. If I won this I would use the money to redo my laundry room! We moved into our first home a couple months ago and are still trying to make it “ours” 🙂

  98. Oh man $500 would go a LONG way at my house right now! We would put it towards kitchen flooring!

  99. I would beautify our laundry room! It’s got such great potential but is just so … meh. I’d add a few cabinets, paint, and hang a pretty light fixture from Home Depot! 🙂

  101. i would use the $500 to put in cabinets and shelves in our laundry room…it doesn’t have anything in terms of storage space. love how you redid your space!

  104. Ahh I love your laundry room. That red rug drew me in and now I must.have.it! I love that it’s bright, casual, and says “hey, come stand on me while you throw your clothes in the washer” — well, ya know…if rugs talked! LOL!

    Anyhow, this post is about laundry rooms and not rugs, so I’ll bring it back around and make it relevant. So… umm that $500 gift card would be about 500 shades of awesomesauce! Especially since my beloved washer got banged up in the move and the door won’t close (RIP washer). So yea, those $500 smackaroos would definitely come in handy and be put to good use. (ie: pick ME!!)

  106. My laundry room is begging for a makeover. It’s so very tiny and we desperately need more/better storage solutions. Plus, it’s a dark hole of brick red and needs some lightening and brightening!

  107. Love your laundry room! Ours is laundry room, mud room, teeny tiny bathroom, litter boxes, storage, and more. I would close up the ceiling of our laundry room (which is currently open rafters), paint the walls and cabinets and just make it more functional – spend lots of time in there! Thanks! 🙂

  109. Our laundry room is in need of some serious work! It is in our unfinished basement that we just haven’t had the time or money to get to yet. Winning would seriously mean a transformation down there! Thanks for the chance!

  111. $500 at Home Depot would a total game-changer in our home! My family is in the process of moving, and we could use that money for anything from paint in our new home, some upgraded tools to help fix up our home (like a table saw!), to a new washer or dryer.

  113. My soon to be laundry room is really just my washing machine and dryer in the corner of our unfinished basement. It’s terrible! I’d love to be able to make it into a real room with walls and to lift up the machines onto a platform.

  117. I would definitely do a board and battan project in my laundry room. I love the clean, classic lines. I also want to paint my cabinets and walls!

  119. With $500 I’d replace the cracked and broken tile on my laundry room floor with vinyl plank (awesome water resistance) and install some much needed storage.

  120. My laundry room desperately needs a sink. And the cabinets really need to be painted. Sink first, though.

  121. What would I do with a $500 Home Depot gift card? In my house? Pick a project… Any project… 🙂

  122. I am currently in the process of redoing OUR laundry room actually! It has come to a screaming hault though due to some unexpected bills. Alas, it is now cluttered (with all of the stuff we removed from the cabinets… because we tore them out. sigh). So I would def use that money to finish up that project! VERY cooincidental that your post is about your laundry room. FATE? I think so… 🙂

  126. Tried pinning from the site but it wasn’t working for some reason. Uploaded my own pin to your website (kacherry87). Woo thanks!

  128. We are moving into a new house next week so there are so many little things that we need that end up adding up.

  129. I would put it towards a new washer and dryer that I so desperately need since mine sounds like a rocket going off! 🙂

  131. Oddly enough, we really need a new washer! We’re a family of eight so we make our machines work hard. A new one would be amazing!

  134. With $500 from Home Depot, I would add shelving to my basement laundry room, add some decorations and maybe some paint to brighten up the dreary space!

  135. I would use it to re-do our laundry/mudroom. And just hope it would turn out at pretty as yours! We have a lot of cabinets and not a lot of work space. An the whole room needs fresh paint!!

  136. Wow! What a great giveaway! We just bought our first house and are in the process of fixing it up. I would use the money towards that!

  139. I’d love to replace some of the builder-grade lighting in my home. I think that lighting makes such a difference!

  142. I’d love to use it on some paint and a flat top for the washer/dryer. And in a perfect world, maybe some enclosures to hide the w/d since it’s in a laundry room/guest bathroom.

  144. I’d love 500$ smackers to Hdepot!! I’d love a chandelier for our master, an outdoor bench for our front porch, and a new mirror for the master bath!! Thanks for the chance!

  146. Ooo I’d LOVE to win! I have so many projects around the house that I could use that gift card for…thanks for the chance!

  147. We are remodeling our basement so I would use the $500 to add some cuteness to my new laundry room!

  150. I could use the gift card to replace my son’s bedroom window. It’s about to fall out of the wall due to termite damage. Yikes!

  153. Wow, I’d put it toward a better storage system for all my crap incredibly important stuff, especially in the bed and bathroom areas. Why is it that I always need about ten times the amount of stuff in the bathroom than I have actual space?!

  154. I would use this to revamp my laundry room by adding in some color and some shelving units. Id also add some adorable decorative touches like yours, which looks amazing!!

  157. Wow! This is amazing. I would need paint, a new light fixture, wood and brackets for open shelving and a bar of some sort to hang clothes!

  161. I SHARED ON PINTREST!! So excited about the contest…closing on my FIRST new home and have “loads” of work to do!! 😉 Would love to use the gift card to help redo my new laundry…*ahem*…closet.

  163. Currently building a new home and would love to win this giveaway so I can get super organized in my new laundry room! (Sharing on Facebook now.)

  164. There are so many projects on our to do list, but one that I’ve been drooling over is a beautiful backsplash in our kitchen. It will give our kitchen a nice personal touch!

  165. I need a counter over my washer and dryer since they’re in a closet, not their own room. And the space could really used more (and better) organization. 🙂

  167. I would use the $500 towards a new washer and dryer!! We rent right now and out rental came with a set but we’ll need one when we move 🙂

  168. I am pretty much in desperate need of a new washer. We just had our fourth boy and use cloth diapers so the laundry room is definitely a very important room in our home.

  169. I’d definitely lighten our cupboards as well, and paint the wall. And get cuter methods of storing cleaning supplies, etc. And add hooks and cubbies to make it also a drop zone/entry.

  172. Beautiful reno. I am wondering if you’ve had any dripping with the liquid laundry detergent dispensers you are using? I would love to use something other than the ugly jug but my experience with this type of dispenser is that they sometimes leak, drip, and I end up with a lot of sticky detergent spots to clean up. I love the look of these though!

  174. There are so many things I could spend it on! I think a new back door would be top of the list though.

  176. If I won the 500 dollar gift card I would use it to buy a dishwasher. Having 2 kids under 4 with out a dishwasher is just crazy talk!

  177. With $500, I would purchase a new washer /dryer set from Home Depot! Could really use an upgrade!

  178. I would totally paint my laundry room. Take off the door and build shelves, that door is so not practical!

  183. I would love to put it towards a new washer & dryer. Mine has rust all over it, not too pleasant to look at!

  185. I would buy as much white paint as I could and just start painting.. anything and everything!!! I live with a house of honey oak everything:)

  190. We’re getting ready to paint our whole downstairs and would use the gift card for paint and supplies and possibly a new rug for our dining room.
    Love your blog and thanks for the chance to win.

  191. My sister and I are complete opposites. Given me an art supply shop or bookstore. Give her Home Depot. She can spend hours in there, looking at tools, fixtures, raw materials and “parts” (as she calls them). She lives in a small town in Idaho where there is not much employment, and she lives in reduces circumstances. She lives a very rugged life, making/building most things herself, from the clothes she wears to the barn she is just finishing in the back yard. I can think of nothing that would make her happier than a gift card to Home Depot, and no one who would put it to better use. If I got the card, it would go to her.

  192. Just finishing up redoing our laundry room and need a few more things like a deep laundry sink/cabinet and knobs for my doors.

  193. We have a lot of leaky windows in our house, so as boring as it is, I would have to use the money to replace some of those.

  196. Attempt to finish the basement with a ceiling and flooring. After we got married 7 years ago we framed, drywalled and painted. 3 kids later and it’s still not finished!

  197. I would lighten up my laundry room and do something with the wire shelving that I have against one whole wall!

  200. There are so many different things I could do with the GC but the main thing would be for paint. I need to paint our office, dinning room, and master bedroom and bath.

  204. I would use the $500 to go towards a new washing machine because mine died 4 days ago 🙁 Unfortunately it costs almost as much to repair as to buy a new one.

  211. OMG, I need this so bad! I would totally do over my laundry room with $500 from HD! That would cover the entire thing. Thanks to the folks from HD and Tide!

  212. I would get new tiles and paint for the bathroom; also adding a folding area and cabinets for the laundry room

  222. $500 would be just enough to buy some lumber and paint to do a quick fix on my ugly kitchen. Open shelves and teal cabinets. then, Maybe even a dish washer!!

  224. I would use the gift card for flooring in our connecting kitchen, dining and living rooms. We are envisioning hardwood flooring. I just spruced up my small closet laundry room with some leftover garage paint and added silver dots, it looks fabulous now!! Thanks!

  225. We’re moving from an apartment to a house this weekend so one thing I know we need or sure is a lawn mower!

  226. I would use it to buy some organizing baskets n storages n rugs, and much much:) more …

  227. We’re about to build a house so this would be perfect in selecting just the things we want in our perfect mudroom/wash room. Fingers crossed!

  229. I need this!! Our laundry room is in an outside untility room with unfinished walls. It’s awful! 🙁

  230. I would purchase an energy efficient refrigerator for my laundry room. There is a built in niche for it already and I never have enough room in my kitchen refrigerator for water, soda and large items.

  231. Goodness, there is so much I would do with it, but I would probably start with some flooring in my small kitchen and get rig of the avocado green flooring from the 70s!

  232. Hi- Love the beautiful laundry room! I actually like doing laundry (I know- I’m a odd bird!) But I would give the gift card to my mom and dad to purcase a new W&D set. My parents are helping us out as we save money for our own house and allowing us to do our laundry at their house. That poor W&D (nicknamed Bert & Ernie) are two of the hardest workers in the house.
    Thanks again for the inspiration. ~Allison

  234. I would really love to make over my bedroom. It has been neglected for way too long! Love this giveaway!

  235. Our laundry room is currently in a dark concrete corner of our basement. The $500 would be just what we need to brighten up the space and make it a functional room to get some laundry done! We love your laundry room (and your entire house, for that matter). Would $500 be enough to have you come over and help us decorate? 😉

  236. Oh, the possibilities are endless! I would think I would use it to give my front yard/house a facelift! Add shutters and a walkway, paint the front door, redo all the shrubs.

  237. I would use the $500 to paint my house, put in some additional garage and laundry room storage and get some sand for a sandbox. Thanks or the chance

  238. There are so many things I could do with a $500 gift card. I think I would start with some organizing bins/baskets!

  239. i would finish bunches of projects with a $500 gift card. we just had baby #5 and we are making things work in our 3 bedroom house. i’d use it to help our home be a little more efficient…. and do a little decorating, too!

  242. We have so many uses for $500! New entry doors, help o new windows or update the flooring in our dining room.

  244. I would spend the gift card creating a built-in closet makeover for my 3-year-old which would include a reading nook!

  250. I’m in the process of revamping our laundry room/mud room area as well and this would be a fantastic boost to getting it in shape!

  252. Our laundry is in the garage, so you know it could use a facelift! Maybe a rug for the floor and some more shelving, or I might build stands for the washer and dryer so they are at a more convienient height. Oh the possibilities!

  253. Not sure right now what I’d do with the gift card, but I’m sure I could think of something with DH’s help.

  257. I love your ideas and painting the cabinets made them look so beautiful. You inspired me. Thank you.

  259. I would paint may garage wall (where the machines are) and buy a cute rug for there, and put up some cabinets

  260. oops what I would do… Well I would a cabinet to house my dirty laundry and I would get some new rugs and art work for the walls. If there was any left over after that I would put up a few more shelves.

  265. I would use it for our new house that we are buying. The laundry room is bare….there is not even the washer and dryer.

  267. I want a combination office and guest room. If I win, I would love to have a murphy bed built in for occasional guests allowing that room to look like my office the rest of the time.

  272. Winning the $500 gift card would be fantastic. I would love to put the card towards updating our laundry room. I love doing laundry, it’s one of my favorite chores, but our laundry room is so dreary. It needs a major face lift! Your laundry room turned out beautifully.

  274. I would use the $500 gift card for some updates to our 816 square foot home. We still have the old linoleum and would love to do a black and white checked vinyl floor. We are having our second daughter in December and the girls will share a room, so we would also love to redo the closet with a closet system! Also, the laundry room is a strange add-on room, so anything to spruce it up would be awesome.

  277. I would totally surprise my husband with a “date night” at Home Depot! We love shopping there and at the moment there is a serious linoleum foul taking place in our bathrooms. Bring on the travertine…and paint…and you know…some pretty pretties!

  278. Wow! I’d use that $500 to finish my laundry-room revamp. I added white cabinets from Home Depot just a couple of months ago but never got around to repainting, adding hooks (for mudroom!), adding another shelf underneath the cabinets so that stuff doesn’t keep falling BEHIND the washer and dryer! 🙂 And now that I see all your cute art and the RUG! Holy Cow! I need some pretty stuff in laundry room to make it more fun (did I just say “fun” about laundry?) in there!

  281. I share my laundry room with the furnace and my hubby’s workbench. Boy could we use some smart storage solutions to make that area more fun to be in!!

  284. I would use that $500 to retile my bathroom! Previous owners put in white tile and white grout! EEEK!! I can’t keep it clean enough!!

  286. I would redo my laundry room and pantry. I have empty space under the stairs that my pantry and laundry room share, so i would add some cabinets or drawers or something. lol

  288. Wahoo! $500! I would either replace all my grody eighties boob lights or start my kitchen remodel. Tough choices here!

  289. I’d create a laundry room. My laundry room consists of my washer and dryer in my garage.

  290. I would do my laundry room too! Paint the brown cabinets and move a couple weirdly placed ones. I also want a folding station over my front loaders with open shelving to place each family members laundry.

    Thanks.

  291. I would like to live in your new laundry room! Mine makes me scream and run away 🙂 We’d definitely use the gift certificate to do some much needed DIY improvement to our kitchen or laundry room.

  292. Oh my goodness, if I won the $500 gift card, I would buy some yard tools and if there’s money left over, I would get a new vanity for my downstairs bathroom. Ooh, and maybe update the floors in my kitchen. ooh, and maybe update my faucets in every bathroom. I might have to make some tough decisions. 🙂 Hope I win! Thanks for the fun giveaway!!

  295. I would totally overhaul our mudroom and laundry room. We have lots of potential and space, but they could use a few adjustments in the layout and set up and then they’d be fabulous!

  296. MY FAMILY IS IN NEED OF A NEW WASHER AND DRYER. WE HAVE BEEN USING THE SAME SET FOR ALMOST 10 YEARS. THE GIFT CARD WOULD REALLY HELP! THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERING MY FAMILY!! 🙂

  297. I could finally buy some paint for my laundry room and maybe a new flooring. It’s old and needs an overhaul!

  299. Oh my, I would use this gift card on chalkboard paint for my kids’ room, building supplies {because I just got Ana White’s book!!!}, and organizational bins/baskets. Would LOOOOVE to win! thanks!

  300. I would use the gift card to buy wood to build my boys a play/swing set outside. 🙂

  301. I would put cabinets, you can see boxes everywhere on the shelves , would like a cleaner look, paint the walls and organization, its the least room that I like to walk in. 🙁

  302. I shared the giveaway on Facebook. And I would use the gift card for lots of paint to redo our bedroom, office, kitchen, and family room. Also, I would LOVE some new tools-paint sprayer, orbital sander. New lighting too, is a must. 🙂

  305. Where to start…board and batten in the kids bath, paint for the master and my laundry room could use some sprucing up. My never ending to do list just grew by a few projects.

  306. love your bright & airy room! we just moved into a new house so I’d totally use this to make some much needed updates with new lighting and paint!

  308. For 12 years, my laundry room has remained as plain and boring as the day we moved in. Painters white is even still on the walls. It would be ah-mazing to be able to brighten the space up with some color , accessories and maybe even a few storage bins!

  310. If I won this giveaway I would use it to update the kids bathroom!! It’s the last one on the list. Thanks for the opportunity.

  311. i would LOVE to win this! i know EXACTLY what i would do too; my dryer has bit the dust, and so, i would buy a new dryer for sure! IF there were any leftover dollars, it would quickly be spent in the garden department.
    i do love the Home Depot!

  312. $500 at home depot? I’d paint our living/dining/kitchen, put up the bead board and build the built in banquette seating I’ve been day dreaming about. 🙂

  317. I love absolutely everything you have done in your space! I have a laundry room in a cave of a basement; full of pipes and water heater, etc. Not exactly my favorite place to spend oodles of time doing loads of laundry.
    I would love a gc to HD to help spruce up the space, maybe a bright yellow on the walls and a nice cozy rug under my feet might help make this daily chore a little more bearable 🙂

  322. My husband and I are renovating a 105 year old home! I would use the $500 to purchase paint and paint supplies! Thanks so much!

  323. I have that marbleized blue paneling in my bathroom and that would be the thing that goes. Sad part is, it’s in my new addition, which is pretty new. Someone must have really liked it.

  325. With that $500 gift card I would buy a new washer! We just bought a short-sale house and the previous owners took ALL the appliances out of the house before we closed. Keeping my fingers crossed!

  326. love your new laundry room! i, too, would paint the cabinets surrounding our existing washer and dryer and update our storage containers and accessories. with four littles at home, laundry is a huge part of our lives. why not make it just a little bit pretty??

  329. We are redecorating the house that we will be retiring to at the end of the year and I could sure put this to use in the kitchen. Thanks for the great giveaway.

  330. I would move our washer and dryer back from the garage into the laundry room. A few years ago, when my son was born, we moved it into the garage as a temporary fix to use the space as a workstation. Now that I have the luxury of being a stay at home momm, my work consists of lots of laundry! Doing it in the garage gives me the heebie-geebies. I know. #firstworldproblems.

  331. *sigh* What could I NOT do with $500? Most likely we’d use it for building supplies to continue renovating our old home! Thanks for the opportunity Handmade Home and Home Depot 🙂

  332. Gosh, I always have home projects going (I’m in the process of giving my kitchen a mini face lift now) so I know I could put this too good use. Thanks for the opportunity!

  334. We would use the gift card to get our house ready to move next year! We’ve been making lots of trips to Home Depot for things like paint, lumber, and tools. This would help a lot! Thank you!

  335. I would use the funds to repair many unsightly items in the kitchen. Like replace missing drawers, repair drawers so they can open easier, replace old blinds, re-finish cabinets, change cabinet pulls, replace hood and dishwasher. I know this may not be enough to finish the project, but its a start to the kitchen looking nice. 🙂

  336. Yes, I do alot of laundry…I am wife and mother to 5 sons, I’d say I probably do about 10 loads per week, like you said, it’s never-ending. That and food or related chores, I really enjoy it though, I have lots of blessings to count. I will totally agree on the lighting, you have to have lots of great lighting. If it’s too dark and dingy nobody would want to go in there. My room is in progress…it’s in our unfinished basement. It will also double as a craft room. The ironing board is the best part, I have my grandmothers wooden ironing board and I can’t imagine ironing on anything else. The newer metal ones seem too flimsy. I sort of feel a connection to my grandma in heaven when I use it. Maybe that sounds weird, but as mothers we all have to stick together. Gotta get back to one of my many loads, Toodles!

  337. I’d love to buy paint to spruce up all the rooms in my house and some items to repair a broken fence outside.

  342. We bought “this old house” and had two baby girls in three years… Needless to say the home improvements have been one the back burner :o) but we have really great plans to move our laundry upstairs making my life a lot easier and back a lot less sore…and this would make that possible!

  349. Shared on Facebook 🙂 Maybe I’d get bead board for the hall bath room… or possibly share with my fiance and let him get some goodies for the makings of his “mancave”

  350. I would put it toward a new washer and dryer- I love love love the front loading ones!
    Great transformation! I love how bright and clean everything is!

  354. I would love to lay a mosaic tile backsplash (home depot has a fantastic selection of inexpensive, beautiful mosaic tiles!), re-do shelving and hooks, and I love your idea of the drink despensers for the detergent – awesome! Thanks for such a great giveaway!

  356. I love your laundry room…beautiful. I would love the chance to bring some organization and function to our tiny laundry/garage entry way! Thank you!

  361. We are actually working on updating our laundry room on a very tight budget right now. I would love to update our floors with Home Depot ceramic tiles and that gift card would make it possible.

  362. I could use this prize in my laundry room since my washer and dryer are getting on in years, but if it’s a true free for all, I’d put it toward flooring since I just ate through my linoleum with Stripeeze by not closing the lid well enough. OOPS! Or a new dishwasher. Great contest!

  363. We moved into our home last year and here are still some many half done projects. Add to that the washer and dryer are on their last legs.

  364. I’m in the middle of a laundry reno too! Paint and shelves from Home Depot would be awesome, and the rest I’d use to buy patio furniture I’ve been eyeing and waiting them to clearance! 😉

  365. Right now my laundry room is located in the walk in closet of the master bedroom. I would use the gift card to relocate it to the kitchen or back porch/mud room area.

  368. Oh, how would I choose which project I’d do first?! Mostly likely it’d be to re-floor the main bath at our house, which still has the 1970s linoleum and CARPET. yes, carpet in the bathroom. gross.

  369. I desperately need $500 to spend at Home Depot. Big time. By the way, where are all your piles of laundry the family throws on the floor in the laundry room? I have an empty laundry bin with laundry on the floor beside it. No reason for the floor pile – I guess the bin must be invisible to them.
    -Trish

  371. Oh my! I would use it to finish our laundry room for sure! With 3-year old twins, I spend lots and lots of time in there and would love to make it more functional as well as a nice place to be!

  372. Oh the things i could do with $500 at HD! I actually would work on my laundry room some. I would also tear out some junky cabinets in the hall and put in a proper closet!

  374. Lighten and brighten my cabinets! Love y’all’s advice about doing what you love and not worrying about what everyone else thinks! Bye bye builder brown!

  375. I love to read your page. It always inspires me to clean and organize my house. 🙂 I would use the $500 gift card toward fixing the walls in my laundry room and adding some shelving.

  377. I would LOVE to use that gift card to remodel our girl’s bathroom. It is 60s blah and totally need some TLC right away!

  378. Laundry, Schmaundry!
    I live in a 1939 bungalow. The laundry room is situated in the “darkness” speaks my 7 year old. Really, it is in a finished basement and it has lots of potential. Its uses consist of laundry, storage and garage all in one. Garage, you say? Skis, bicycles, golf clubs, and uhmmm……linens. I’m embarrassed, but what can I say? 1939 didn’t require the “stuff” we have now, to fit in a garage. I need to purge and then….$500 for an upright storage shelving unit, a washer (the current one is from 1979 and has lived in 6 states) and a can of Benjamin Moore Paint. (still deciding between grays!)

  380. Would use that Home Depot card to renovate my kitchen!
    In desperate need of a make-over.

  381. OH wow what an awesome giveaway!! We have a large family and live on a farm so I need to do wash each every day!! I need a new wash machine so I would put the money toward that or a new big sink:) Thanks !!!

  382. I love love this Laundry room…Wish I had one! Makes me want to spruce up the little corner of the garage. Can’t hurt right?
    With that $500 I would spice up our bathroom and save a little love for my “laundry nook”. I could use a utility sink in there!

  383. Tools! We’re moving into a new house in less than a month and I have grand plans but lack the tools to make them a reality!

  384. Painting supplies and paint, a drying rack, rug, lighting…and the list goes on. Thank you!

  385. I’d buy a new dishwasher for our new ‘built in 1961 and never changed’ home! Pick me!!!

  386. I would definitely use the gift card to update my laundry room cabinets and get a new floor in the room also!

  389. I would use the Home Depot gift card to make my laundry room a space that I can love. I would add a plank ceiling, paint my cupboards, and build a coat rack and storage system. Then maybe I would enjoy doing laundry in my new room!

  390. I would love to re-do our (much, much smaller) laundry room. Paint, new shelving, a countertop, flooring… You name it, it needs to be done!

  391. I just purchased a foreclosure in my hometown. I paid $16,000. That’s right, only $16,000. It’s a fixer-upper that doesn’t have any kitchen countertops. So I’d buy some kitchen cabinets, countertops and a fridge. I currently don’t have a fridge, I’m using a little student fridge at the moment. And to store my pots, pans and plates I’m using old WalMart bookshelves.

  392. Where to start? I need fun, new lighting in both my laundry room & bathroom. I also need a counter over my W/D. That should spend it all, if not more!

  393. We’re getting ready to redo our master bath, so I’d use it for that – tile, vanity etc

  396. I would add much needed storage to my laundry room. I have hanging room for clothes, but no storage. Storage with doors, a dream come true. Add some board and batten… Oh boy!

    Ps. Where is your red rug from?

  397. For starters, paint, then some cupboards to hide all those “accessories” you need in a laundry room. Next an indoor drying rack and a new ironing station. And relocate my laundry sink to the other side of the room. That would just about use up $500. and maybe a bit more.

  399. I have a bathroom in my basement that is all plumbed, but that’s it! I would put the $500 towards finishing it so we could actually use it! 🙂

  401. The laundry detergent would be used up quickly in our home of 6! And the gift card? We just moved into a older rental, so it could be used in any number of ways… but I would probably use it to update some bathroom fixtures and paint some neutral walls with some color!

  402. Holy smokes – what a giveaway. Our laundry room is in our spidery-mildewy basement, and the Home Depot gift card could go a loooong way toward freshening and brightening that space. Fingers crossed!!

  403. I just went to Home Depot last week and bought paint for my laundry room. A little Chantilly Lace (per the influence of the Mills fam!) on the doors, Woodlawn Blue on the walls, and some extra white paint I had laying around for the ceiling….it’s a whole new room. Seriously. Some much brighter and spacious feeling. So much better than the weird green of the paneling and the yellowed ceiling. What’s next? I hope a new floor! That’s what I would do if I won.

  405. I’d use the $500 to DIY a w/d pedestal, some cabinets with space to hang clothes, and a counter. It would be nice to re-tile the floor and paint the small nook, too. Oh, and a new light (right now we just have a fluorescent tube office/garage/workshop-type fixture…it’s hawttt =P). Lastly, I want to install an electrical outlet in there. Who builds a laundry/garage entry/pantry space without ONE. SINGLE. OUTLET?! Anyway…mildly ambitious??? 🙂

    P.S. I’m using a tablet to read your blog, which means that touchscreen scrolling occasionally results in accidental clicking on things. I don’t know what I accidentally clicked, because I was mid-scrolling-reading, but I was somewhere near the top of the page (so maybe it was the text based ad at the top of the sidebar?). Anyway, whatever it was led to a page full of graphic porn, advertising a mobile porn app!! I’m just guessoing that this is not the type of advertising you want on your blog, so I thought I’d give you a heads-up. Sorry I couldn’t be more specific about what I clicked on, but it was accidental so I truly have no idea.

  408. Definitely brighten my laundry room walls with paint and hang some much needed cabinets for storage!

  411. We just moved into a new house a month ago and the kitchen cabinents are a MESS. I would love the gift card to buy paint to paint them and change out the hardware.

  413. We’re buying our first house within the next year…this would help SOOOOOO much with painting and fixing things up! Crossing my fingers!

  415. I would use it towards a new fridge. The one we are using came with the house and is slowly falling apart (various weird leaks, no ice, frozen produce, etc).

  416. I would put it towards a new washer and dryer. I love the changes you made to your room.

  419. I totally appreciate your disdain for builder’s beige. Being a realtor in Baton Rouge, LA, I spend more time than I’d like to surrounded by builder’s beige. Yuck! I would use the $500 to bring some much needed color variations to the walls of the world. Maybe I’ll start a campaign and call it “Down with Brown”!

  421. We’d use the gift card to work on our outdoor space. It needs some love!

  422. Update our laundry room/guest bathroom. The guest bathroom is through the laundry room and it’s an eyesore. It needs at least a coat of paint and updated flooring, but I’d like to add some type of board and batten type treatment to at least the bathroom, if not both rooms.

  425. we just bought our first house! eek! and have so much work to do to make it beautiful! a little gift card like this would make the world of difference for our little budget!!

  427. I would definitely use this towards our backyard playset which is quickly turning into a bigger project than I thought it was going to be!

  429. I would love to have a laundry room half as nice as yours…you’ve done a wonderful job lightening it up and making it usable! If I win, I’m going tot tackle creating an organized room with cabinets, rugs, and maybe (hopefully if money allows) a new sink!

  430. We just bought a house that needs an overwhelming amount of work. We’d could use a Home Depot gift card for carpet, paint, wallpaper removal tools, new appliances, hardware, a bath vanity, lights, blinds, sinks, faucets…okay, I think you get the picture! 🙂

  431. It would be a wonderful gift to win this give away! We’re trying to save to purchase a compound miter saw so I can build furniture for our home and I dream of doing it for others once day as a business to help support our family. I’m a stay at home mom, so every dollar counts! Thanks for the chance to win!

  435. We just bought a new/older home that was flipped, but though we got a decent deal on it, it came with a very large slew of major projects needing to be done. Beginning with the yard, but also including our laundry room. And the garage. So I’d definitely use that gift card for one of those things. 🙂 Going to share this contest now.

  436. I would buy paint and lumber to continue the upgrades we are making in our boys’ room!

  437. I would add some color with a new shower curtain and accessories. It’s been all black and white for eight years, it’s time for some change.

  438. We have so much to do and no money! Finish the bathroom, fix the walls in the other bathroom too to start.

  441. We’re slowly renovationing our bungalow….we need tons of everything to get rid of the 1970s bad vibe (carpet in the kitchen, yikes!) and make repairs!

  442. Hot Dog! What wouldn’t I do with that gift card! I think I’d start in the bathroom with some new faucets, then who knows where I’d end up!

  445. With that gift card I would finally clean up my laundry room (for real). It’s in the darkest, dirtiest hole in our home (a 1950 ranch) and has absolutely no personality with its (poorly) painted cinderblock walls (from the previous owners) that are the foundation of the house, and the cement floor with no ceiling, exposing all the wires and floor joists for the floor above. To make this a place I’d actually want to do laundry would be wonderful! Think of all the laundry I would actually do! Rather than just throw it down the dark chute never to be seen again. 😉

  446. Your laundry room looks great. The rug is such a fun pop of color and patter. If I won the gift card, I would buy shelving! We have gutted our laundry room and widened it a bit to make room for a pantry in there. Can’t wait for al those shelves!

  450. $500 at Home Depot…I’d finally get all the supplies to repaint my awful kitchen cabinets. New paint for the walls. New drawer and cabinet knobs. Then I might enjoy being in there!

  451. I would use the $500 for a pegboard for my laundry room/craft room. I’d also use some of the money towards a new walkway off our back deck.

  452. Would love to do some type of seating outside since the house is small. Maybe a front porch or backyard sitting area

  454. I have about a million things I could use a Home Depot gift card for! New flooring, paint and a washer and dryer are at the top of my list.

  456. I would replace the interior doors in my house and get a ceiling fan for my bedroom. Only an exciting prospect to me, I’m sure!

  457. How fun! I love everything you did! Unfortunately we currently live in a rental home, but this is the first place I have lived (married) that has an actual laundry room instead of laundry closet! I however, have no sense of using it to its fullest potential! I would love to use the gift card to help me organize it better as with too little ones, laundry is a constant around here and I would love to make it more efficient!

  458. I’d put the gift card toward a new washer/dryer. Larger, more efficient machines would make my laundry life so much easier!

  459. I would hold onto my $500 dollar gift card for a couple more months because we are soon moving into our first home and I would love to get my laundry room started on the right track. This would be a step in the right direction! Woo hoo!

  460. I would use the gc to makeover my laundry space. It’s been way down low on the to do list for a long time. We have a little bitty laundry closet that looks almost the same as when we moved in 9 years ago wih the exception of adding a bunch of crap. It’s boring builder beige with wire shelving. While it does the job it would be nice to have it pretty too!

  467. If I won, I would buy paint, cabinets and shelves for my laundry area. I would also look for some decorative touches, like framed pictures or a corkboard with a nice frame.

  469. I don’t have ANY cabinets so I wou.d use my gift card for storage options or a new cabinet!

  470. Shared on pinterest… $500 could be used for so much around my house I can’t even choose now!

  472. I would love to move a wall in my laundry room to make it a little bigger. The doors on my front loaders barely clear the opposite wall!

  475. oh wow! this would be so exciting to win … we just recently {finally!} bought a new washer and dryer so this gift card would be great to help make over my dingy, basement laundry area!
    Kathy k

  476. Your laundry room looks amazing! For my laundry room makeover, I would start with paint, cabinet hardware, and replace the countertop, sink & faucet. 🙂

  480. I’d put up sheetrock, put down flooring, move my dryer nearer the washer and make it the first finished room in our basement.

  481. If I were given $500 to spend at the Home Depot, I’d use it to build another above grown vegetable garden. We built one this spring and had a blast with it! I’d love to expand soon, so this extra money would help us to do that!!!

  486. I have a bathroom that needs a little makeover and $500 would be a great start!

  487. I would first thank my lucky stars and then I would build the WWII army tent/bed my son wants us to build in his room!

  488. I would use the gift towards a new front load washer and dryer, and add a shelf on top for a work surface in my tiny laundry room. Thank you!

  489. While I would love to use the gift card to improve our creepy, creepy basement “laundry room,” chances are it would go toward our ongoing kitchen renovation instead. Priorities, right? 😉

  491. In Desperate need of a new dryer! Could definitely use this giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity!

  494. Oh how this giveaway would help my current laundry nightmare… Oh I mean laundry room come together!

  496. I’m desperately in need of a new washer! One that preferably doesn’t sound like a helicopter landing during the spin cycle… 🙂

  497. So many things that need to be done, so hard to choose! I’d probably use it for a bunch of little projects. I need to paint my kid’s rooms, plant some flowers in the front and backyard, get the garage organized, add some quarter round trim to the dining room baseboards, update the light fixtures in the bathroom…

  499. My laundry room has been on my to do list for 4 years. I would love to get it done. $500 dollars would help a lot.

  502. We are in the midst of a kitchen remodel dyi so this would help tremendously! We still need backsplash, paint, & faucets so this would go a long way to help!

  503. There are so many things we need for the house right now, so that $500 would go a long way toward paint, a ceiling fan, a clothesline, and lawn mower!

  506. We just moved into a “vintage” home and our project list is a mile long…that’s how I’d use the gift card.

  508. I would use that gift card to install a board-and-batten wall with coat hooks, and build a sorting center with a counter. Pick me!

  509. If I won the $500 gift card I would get a new dryer. If there was any left over I would repaint our laundry room.

  510. I would get some new shelving, a table for folding clothes, curtains, and an area rug.

  513. Get new flooring for my laundry room & redo the drainage pipes. Anything left, I’d do my kitchen floor, too.

  514. We just bought a house and it needs a lot of work but one of the jest things we need are new light fixtureS!

  515. I would spend the $500 gift card on mulch and fall plants, concrete repair, garage storage solutions, paint for my bedroom and den, and materials to repair items damaged in a big hail storm this summer. YES I Have Big Plans for that gift card!

  519. I desperately need new flooring in my laundry room – so many other things as well, but I would definitely start with that!

  527. We are renovating our house (we just moved in today,yahoo!) and I would either use it towards kitchen flooring or a pergola in the backyard…tough choice!

  528. We just bought our first house and the laundry room is near the top on my list. It has an ancient water softener in it that is huge and ugly; I’s love to replace it with a smaller one that can be hidden in a cabinet of sorts, then unstack my washer and dryer and put a countertop over them for folding.

  529. This $500 would go straight to my new project– repainting my kitchen cabinets and changing the hinges and knobs. Crossing my fingers!

  530. I would use the money to fix up my house so we can finally rent it out and move to a bigger place. 5 people in 2 bedrooms is enough already!

  531. I would update my laundry room – your design is so functional and I love the big jars for laundry detergent and softener!