Laundry room designs for organized living might seem like a luxury but when you consider the
amount of time allotted to laundry day in the average home, it is obvious that laundry chores do not get any respect!
The average home design has the laundry area in the least desirable and least accessible area of
of the home - usually the basement!
One can only ponder the wisdom of putting the laundry center there but
since in-home laundry is a relatively recent phenomenon perhaps there just wasn't any other place to put it.
Planning for the high humdity and possibility of water leaks may also be a contributing factor to the
creepy basement laundry center.
Thankfully laundry has come a long way from the two tub system pictured here, but just because you have
push button technology does not mean that laundry is not a chore. In fact the modern home does more laundry
than in days gone by!
When laundry was a chore that took all day, two sets of clothing were the norm. One set of clothes for labouring and
one set for dressing up for more formal functions like weddings, parties and church! The clothing inventory for
contemporary families is certainly more than two sets!
One thing is for certain. Your family does more laundry more often than your ancestors did!!
In fact the average house hold does between six to seven loads of laundry per week!
Laundry Room Designs for the Contemporary Home Laundry Center
Dreaming about a laundry room makeover?
Here's a wish list for laundry room designs!
stacked full size washer and dryer - any space over the washer or dryer is wasted space.
Even if you put shelves or cupboards up there you would have to be a gorilla to reach into them. If you have a large enough laundry room
to have a nice window like in the picture OK, but most people do not have that much space.
sound insulation - I might have to do laundry but I do not want to be reminded of it all the time by
the noise of the machines.
a laundry room designed just for laundry - ever notice how laundry rooms get messy with dirty
clothes and laundry hampers strewn about?. My dream laundry center will be just for laundry so
that I do not have to trip over other things (basketballs, runners, coats, snowsuits, galoshes etc)
on laundry day.
a laundry center close to where the "inputs" are! - Why can't the laundry room be close to the bedrooms?
That's where most of the laundry comes from! Think how much time can be saved if the trip to the laundry
room from the bedroom is a short one!
cabinets and shelving - laundry supplies like soap, bleach, and stain remover are best hidden
behind closed doors! Preferably in a vertical cabinet space beside the stackable machines
drying area - or some small space or drying rack to hang up clothing that needs to be air dried
A drop down ironing board - I absolutely hate setting up the ironing board.
And I hate putting it away even more! I would like to have my ironing board ready to
go and the iron already plugged in so I could just turn it on with a flick of a switch!
Laundry tub - A place for soaking or pre-treating stains or soaking
some of those bigger items like sheer draperies
A few spare bins and/or baskets for orphaned socks - You never know,
the missing mate just might show up on the next laundry day!
Do you want a laundry center in your home that works for you and your family?
Since the whole point of organized living is to make your environment work for and support your life, it
will be necessary to do an assessment of what it is you really need and want in your laundry room.
Your laundry room designs
for machine placement, cabinets, laundry hampers and other supplies in your laundry room organization plan
can only be done once that is known.
Additionally an understanding of how the laundry process works and more specifically how you
want it to work in your home will help in planning your laundry room center.
Stumble It!
