It's so cute!

How are you going to reach it tho?

I just wanted it to put a few photos up there. It's basically a big photo frame. I have a step thing between the sink and washer but I won't be changing the pictures often.

I love it! I would have never had the vision to put that together. The red trim makes the whole thing stand out. Great Job!

Clever girl!

Can you imagine how much fun you're going to have when that first bambino comes along? I think the nursery will quickly trump the laundry room for "favorite". ;)

Looks wonderful!

Very well done indeed! :)

Jan at Rosemary Cottage

That is just lovely.

Have a party and then find a way to get people to go into the laundry room.

I love the frame! I made a couple more traditional ones for my kids, but that frame really makes it special. I will now be on the lookout for a calendar frame like that. It is toooo cute!
And what graywings said throw a party. I would have tubs of ice and beer in there to lure them in!
And WTH? us understand? what were you thinking???

You have great reason to be excited. It's adorable!

That's quite crafty, I'm impressed; your laundry room turned out very nicely !!

Oh Shee, that looks great! You did a nice job!

Great job...it really complements your laundry room. :-)

Very pretty. Can you give me steps by step on this? Is that fabric? I have several bulletin boards in my home office and I can't decide how to recover them, primarily b/c I can't decide on a fabric. So many choices.....

It's darling, Shee! GREAT job!

Ahhh gotcha. I thought it was a memo board in the sense that I'd use one (we have four kids)! It really is so cute.

it's adorable!
Can I ask where you found the clothing rack under it? I need one. I have the smae layout in my laundry. I have a closet to the right of that wall and I keep my vac in there and i hang dry some clothing in there but It would be nice to have an area where the air can circulate better.

summie, I believe she made it with plant hangers and a closet pole, cut to fit. I've seen this drying rack from Ballard's in their outlet. Best part is you can keep it out of the way when not in use.
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I love it Shee! You did a great job. The laundry room has turned out sooo nice!

tina

Druidclark - I'll try! Yes, I used fabric.
On the back of the calendar holder there was only enough room for the grooves of the back to fit. Since it was meant to be hung vertical and I went horizontal I had to acutally put the hangers into the back wood piece and hope the wood glue did a good job.

Most people I think use batting or dacron wrap over whatever they're using (normally wood or a bulletin board) before adding the fabric so it's more poufy looking. I couldn't do this because of how the back had to attach.

-Primed and painted
-I cut cardboard out to fit. - Had a large piece I was going to save for spray painting outside.
-Stapled (regular paper staple) the fabric on.
-Get an idea of the ribbon layout before you start going crazy cutting. I actually had to buy another thing of ribbon because I failed to do this. I criss crossed the two in the middle first and went from there. Taped the back of the ribbon on the cardboard. Used a little hot glue also just because.
-I hot glued the criss cross sections that didn't want to lay flat.
-Put the prettied up cardboard back in the frame and used wood glue for the back. Sat something heavy on it for 24 hours.
-Hot glued the buttons and trim around the inside.
-Hammered the saw hook/hanger things on the back.

Hope this helps!

Summie - Kmcg is correct. I saw the idea from Southern Hospitality blog. Rhoda's sister did this in her laundry room with the exact same plant hangers. Hers were black and she found them at Ace Hardware. I was able to find the same ones but they only had white. Cut down a curtain rod to fit. She used an adjustable metal rod. It works great. There's enough room between the wall and clothes when they're hanging.

We might have to have a gathering soon, lol. It's grilling season afterall.

Thanks everyone! I knew you'd understand. :)

The ballard one is cool! I'd probabky never have it closed! LOLOL! I wonder if I could find the plant hangers in ORB? I am going to go look. Does the bar slide? Looking at Ballards now too for cost.

Bravo!! That looks great!

Summie - I can slide the bar around but it doesn't interfer with it's function. At some point I want to get finials for the ends.

As far as the color you could make them an ORB color. Sandpaper, primer, Krylon ORB paint. I originally was going to paint mine black.

Thank you! Very helpful.

Really creative and love the fabric with the red braid trim!