It's done ! Finally enough cash and time have allowed my very clever husband to finish the utility room. You can see how it all began HERE and followed up HERE . I am so thrilled with the end result and reckon we could give any DIY Makeover programme a run for their money. The utility room started life as an outside toilet and coal shed. When we bought the house they were enclosed with just a small conservatory tagged onto the back of the house. We lived for ten years with a cold, damp space for our second toilet, a boiler that broke down all the time and nowhere except for our radiators to dry damp clothes.

NOT ANYMORE !!!

The handmade (by hubby - post to follow) Barn door slides open to reveal a great space for the washing machine, hanging space for socks, pants,smalls etc and storage of laundry basket and washing powders. This used to be the entrance to the first outside shed and housed our old boiler.

We decided to take up the old wooden flooring and lay these beautiful slate grey tiles from Homebase. Running the tiles through into the utility room makes for a much more stylish and seamless look. These were budget tiles (you can see details in the previous posts) but they are really good quality and are a dream to keep clean with dirty feet coming in and out of the garden all the time.

The view through the door ! I LOVE IT ! My hubby did an amazing job. New toilet ! We now have 3 toilets. That should be enough with four men in the house. The shelving is from IKEA and the black and white photo art I made myself. See the post on how easy it was HERE

It was really important to me to make the most of the small space. A priority was to have somewhere to hang washing to dry when the weather was bad. With my almost finished new kitchen dining room I did not want to go back to having wet clothes draped all over radiators around the house. We found this fantastic modular system again at IKEA that you can build as many or as few shelves, baskets rails etc that you want. Its perfect for what I wanted to do. Because its a small space I wanted to make good use of as much of the wall space as possible, so put the broom and dustpan and brush on the wall. The bag from The White Company holds old towels and rags for cleaning the floor and shoes .

Another thing that irritates me is chargers and plugs in EVERY socket around my home so insisted we had what we now call a "charging station" ha! Plug sockets and a shelf but it did the job. It didn't take long to train them all to put their phones and tablets on charge in the Utility room.