When you move into a new-to-you home, not every room makeover can be top priority—even when it gets a lot of use. Samantha Overway closed on her family’s home the day after she got home from the hospital with her youngest child. So needless to say, the laundry room was not on the top of the family’s to-do list. It sat in the basement of the family’s 100-year-old home, and while it worked well enough, it wasn’t exactly pretty.