Laundry Room Renovation, Taking down a shelf, adding upper cabinets

The laundry room design is coming along. Remember what it looked like before?

Laundry Room Before

I decided to go with Option A! It added plenty of storage, the layout worked without having to redo plumbing or the counter top, and it was the least expensive.

Winner — Option A

I painted the lower cabinet, took the shelf down, added spackle and repainted (still some touch ups to do).

Shelf down, spackle on ready to sand and paint

Taking down a shelf is easy. Usually they are attached with long brad nails. Getting them down is as easy as prying and pulling. No sledge hammers for this step, I didn’t want damage to anything else and I plan to reuse this shelf in my office closet (more later).

Adding the upper shelves was… hard. I gotta be honest. I bought these ready to assemble pre-fab ones on a great deal from Home Depot. While the assembly was a piece-of-cake getting them on the wall was not like eating cake. I didn’t have all the right tools and my studs were so far apart there was a lot of heaving lifting. I used a level shim to rest the shelves on while I drilled. You can still barely see the wood shim under under the shelves. It was a two person job for sure.