We’re Hooked on This Laundry Room Pegboard

A pegboard with pizzazz keeps household tools organized in this blogger’s laundry room.

A now-organized and attractive laundry room pegboard
Image: Angela Ploetz, Professional Organizer/Girlfriends Get Organized

I hate cleaning, but I love cleaning tools. In fact, I own dozens of brooms, mops, dustpans, and brushes.

The problem is, I don’t have a great way of storing these household helpers. Some hang on hooks in my garage; others live in my laundry room in the space between the dryer and wall.

That’s why I was delighted to read Angela Ploetz’ post on her pegboard broom organizer. Angela made it to corral clutter in her laundry room, and it’s a simple, handy, and handsome solution.

Angela, of "Girlfriends Get Organized," is a professional organizer whose stomach actually hurt whenever she looked at the hodgepodge pile of cleaning tools in her laundry room.

How She Got Organized

Before the laundry room makeover
Image: Angela Ploetz, Professional Organizer/Girlfriends Get Organized

Putting hooks on the wall was too humdrum for Angela. So she stapled chevron-patterned cloth to a rectangular pegboard (2-by-4-ft., $30); screwed the pegboard to a frame, and laid out her brooms, dustpans, and baskets on the board before poking holes in the fabric for hooks.

Yellow chevron design on pegboard
Image: Angela Ploetz, Professional Organizer/Girlfriends Get Organized

The pegboard is the “jewel” of Angela’s laundry room, which made the rest of space look even sadder. So, she decided to spruce up the shelves, which were two lonely planks piled with plastic bins, cleaning supplies, and an iron.

The laundry room before the pegboard
Image: Angela Ploetz, Professional Organizer/Girlfriends Get Organized

First, Angela added a low shelf for more storage space. Then, she covered cardboard with that pretty chevron fabric to make inserts that gave her clear plastic bins a dash of style.

She chose green-and-white bins and baskets (6.5-qt. bins; 8 for $28) to match the fabric and unify the room, and affixed labels that are fun and functional.

Decorated baskets in redone laundry room
Image: Angela Ploetz, Professional Organizer/Girlfriends Get Organized

The result? A happy, mood-elevating laundry room with a place for everything (and everything in its place).

Revealing the laundry room pegboard shelf
Image: Angela Ploetz, Professional Organizer/Girlfriends Get Organized

For more inspiration, check out our other laundry room projects: 

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Lisa Kaplan Gordon is an award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer who contributes to real estate and home improvement sites. In her spare time (yeah, right!), she gardens, manages three dogs, and plots to get her 21-year-old out of her basement.