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Simply removing clutter, painting the walls a happy yellow and straightening the paintings can work wonders. I still suggest framing the photo prints and lower them, if you really want to keep them.
They look like the floors in my previous home. Mine changed color too,it didn’t bother me. Since my current home is at least 75% glass I had the west, south & east facing glass treated with a clear UV protectant, also have solar shades which I rarely close. Mine were tinted to protect art.
I just realized the way to deal with a mix of woods you get when your floors and furniture and cabinetry are a mix of pine, maple, oak, and walnut is to treat them as colors: yellow, orange, and red. Then you can decide if you want to heat things up by adding brighter reds, oranges and yellow to fully embrace an analogous color scheme, or if you want to go for a split complementary color scheme by adding blue, or if you want to get really exciting with a split-split complementary scheme by adding periwinkle and teal. Why not mirror the full range of woods you have with the full range of blues available with periwinkle, teal, and blue in the middle? And of course you can tone them down for walls and ceilings while including accents in brighter colors. I may just head that direction in my living/dining room of antique wood pieces instead of staining the newer pieces.
Consider “international dark sky” ideals regarding night lighting. Rather than having lighting on an automatic timer, plan for lighting that can be switched on only when you are enjoying those areas. This would minimize night time light pollution. Night creature’s rhythms are disrupted by artificial lighting also.
Not one mention on the devastating impact that night lighting is having on our night pollinators and birds ( and humans, due to interference in our circadian rhythms). Do you enjoy fireflies? Their signalling to one another can only be done in darkness.
if you must light up your property, please pay attention to what the article says about down lighting, and turn off your lights when you have finished enjoying them.
Light pollution is detrimental to birds and other wildlife. The health of wildlife should be more important than aesthetics.
This is a good choice from Amazon no hangers needed
I agree that it is a bad method but it's common here and needs to be dealt with as an ongoing maintenance issue. My dryer in New York also exhausted directly out the wall and was never an issue.
Here's one more idea. Instead of lowering the cabinets keep them where they are and add a shelf underneath them for easy access of the things you use often.
Our laundry room has higher cabinets and a shelf below like Emily shows; it is nearly identical in size and layout. We keep the detergent, dryer balls, and things needed at the sink there. Very handy, keeps things off the machines (mostly).
I love my laundry sink, not just for laundry but for cleaning things I don’t want to clean in the kitchen.
But, I hear you on drawers! I wish we had a bank of drawers. I’m torn as to whether I want drawers and a laundry machine tower — I find them a little, well well, BIG especially in a small space — or the status quo.
Beware of pedestals. Our dryer is on a pedestal, and it makes it hard to reach over it to get things down from the cupboard above. I keep a small stepstool in the laundry room, but it fits neatly in front of the laundry tub (one of those free-standing types, not as deep as the machines), and our laundry room is not a busy walkway/entryway as yours is.