Utility Room Remodel and Spring



Dark Pink (Near Magenta) Red Bud Tree Planted After 2009 Ice Storm

A few weeks ago I promised to post photos of our remodeling projects.

But first I had to add a splash of spring, my darker, almost magenta, Redbud is in full bloom. This tree was planted after the 2009 great ice storm.

If you remember, I also said I was not an interior photographer and thus you will soon agree.

I met such an interior photographer a decade or two ago at a workshop.  Her work made every room look beautiful to nearly surreal. I was amazed.

A room to me is to be lived in, essentially functional, not a showroom for others to envy, but never have I salivated to have my house on the front cover of HOUSE BEAUTIFUL either.

Further, I chose to use a wide angle lens mostly without flash. Wide angle lens at 28mm will have some distortion in the photo seen in straight lines which appear bent, curved or less than perpendicular to a comparable line in the photograph. There are lens which correct this aberration but I am not inclined to purchase one when this is not my particular interest.

Utility Room Viewed From Kitchen
Through Vertical Door."

Appliance Side (unchanged)
viewed from Kitchen

The completed room is vicariously known as a the washroom, laundry, recycling (plastic bags, newspapers, magazines, cardboard, aluminum cans), feed-dog, freezer, fishing rods and keys room, so I suppose its best name would be utility room!!!

SO I present our utility room which is off the kitchen, a hallway type room leading out the back door, which has a dog door flap, to the back yard.

We kept one side of the room with washer, dryer, freezer and hot water closet as was previously  remodeled because I upgraded the doors of the shoddy manufactured housing cabinets with nice doors, and made additional storage above the hot water heater. With this remodel we used light oak "bead" board everywhere else.

Left Side Utility Room Viewed From
Kitchen - Really Busy Side With
Various Recycling, Keys And Fishing
Racks, Newspaper Recycling in Brown
Brown Sack, Key and Fishing Rod Rack,

I know the room looks discombobulated but we truly do and have all the previously mentioned activities in this small area, lending a cluttered look. These photos are as good as it ever gets!

Utility Room Viewed from Kitchen To
Back Door and Dog Door

Now another peep at

springtime at the abode

of Nitwit1, Luckie, husband.

We renovated this flower

bed last year in the overhaul

of our front yard. An older

light fuchsia Redbud was

planted years earlier. We

added the darker Redbud,

whiskey barrels, moved

some yucca around, etc.

The leaves of Naked Ladies

are along our lot line and

planted a number of years

ago.

Utiliity Room Viewed from Back Door
Toward Kitchen Vertical "Door"

PHOTOS: BY NITWIT1 UNLESS OTHERWISE ATTRIBUTED. 

As can see Spring has sprung in the newly renovated bed which I nicknamed the Nandina Bed as all the whisky barrelshave Nandinas started in them. I have several more shoots that appeared from where moved these plants.The back of my Dallas Cowboy is seen. Miraculously the diseased Dogwood is also struggling to bloom. Note Naked Ladies along lot line.

 The manufactured home in the background is condemned, but a old federal lien is holding up demolition. It is a definite health hazard with black mold, a tree through the roof, water rot inside, wild animals living inside and out. Its age is such there is a good possibility of asbestos in its structure. The mayor also found evidence of humans using the place for parties, mostly likely illegal drugs.