Margaret and I were working on cleaning up our 4th floor a bit this weekend, when we were struck by how poor the shelving design was above our washer and drier (which live in a closet up there). So we thought we would (as we have with just about every other closet in our house), put up elfa shelving. Should be an easy enough job, maybe 3 hours of work including taking down the existing shelves.

But as long as we had the old shelves down, it would be a great time to put up a fresh coat of paint in there. So Margaret picked out a color at the Home Depot and we were good to go.

But if we are going to paint, we should probably move the washer and the drier out of the way so we can paint behind them (it will make things so much easier).

Once we moved the washer and drier out of the way, we saw how nasty it was behind there (Drier lint everywhere!), so we had to spend some time cleaning up that area as well.

It is amazing how a simple project like putting up new shelves can snowball into something bigger…