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Poll Results: How large is your laundry area/room?

 
  • 14% (12)
    w/d are in a room which is primarily for another function (e.g., kitchen)
  • 37% (32)
    w/d in a hallway or dedicated closet
  • 8% (7)
    w/d
  • 18% (16)
    50-100 square feet
  • 5% (5)
    101-150 sf
  • 4% (4)
    no laundry at home
  • 10% (9)
    other
85 Total Votes  
post #21 of 35
5/19/09 at 9:53pm
Ours is probably 6x10, it has the washer, dryer, a big sink (which we never use), the central air, furnace, and hot water heater. There's room for an ironing board, but barely. We also keep the cat box in there.
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post #22 of 35
5/19/09 at 10:31pm
We have a closet/alcove in the hall outside our bedrooms that is just big enough for the washer & dryer and has a small cabinet above them. The previous owners didn't even have a door across it, but we did put folding doors up because my machines aren't as nice as theirs were and I wanted them hidden.
post #23 of 35
5/19/09 at 10:34pm
Ours is giant- probably about 25x15. The floor is tile. There's a bathroom off of it as well. I love it- it's totally uncharactaristic for a 70's house. We have a mini fridge in there for the boys to run in and get drinks when they've been playing outside so they don't track mud all over the house. The dogs stay in there when they're muddy- we have a walk through baby gate up at the doorway.

Eventually I plan to have dh build "lockers" for the boys school bags and coats in there since it's the room we walk through to leave the house.
post #24 of 35
5/19/09 at 11:17pm
29 years old and never had a washer LOL I just take it to work with me, fold it there and hang when I get home.
post #25 of 35
5/19/09 at 11:32pm
I don't really know how to describe our laundry area, so let me make a link to an older photo of it. The part in the foreground is basically a half bathroom with a toilet and sink (which you can't see in the picture), and then a sort of doorway without a door, that leads right into the area with the washer and dryer. They're side by side and they have a shelf overhead that holds detergent, a spray bottle for cleaning, a basket with doo dads like vacuum attachments and manuals and such, and our downstairs washcloths. It's not crowded or anything, and we don't need any more space. I do our folding and sorting on our bed, since our family closet is in the master bedroom.

ETA: The space I don't have a problem with but the decor definitely needs work. It's linoleum and formica and ugly wallpaper border. Ugh. The rest of the house was lovely when we moved in, we didn't have to change much, but I guess people just forgot about the downstairs bath... It seems out of step with the rest of the house.
post #26 of 35
5/19/09 at 11:43pm
Having just moved into our new home, I am still trying to get used to the large laundry room. The washer, dryer, and utility sink take up only a small portion of the room. The remaining floorspace is empty. We also have a wall of closets and drawers. One of the three closets is partially filled with our holiday decorations, luggage, and memory "stuff." The remaining storage space is empty.
post #27 of 35
5/20/09 at 1:14am
Ours is a somewhat unique arrangement. It used to be one way and before we even moved in, we made changes and then we made changes again later on.

Let's see if I can describe it...
Our laundry area and powder room are behind one door now with no doors in between them. This combined "room" is between our living room and kitchen. From the hallway, you walk through a single working door. On the left, the dryer, then the washer...with three cabinets (that match our kitchen) above them. The one above the washer is used for laundry (bottom) and bulk cleaning supplies, as in gallon of vinegar and 10-pound container of baking soda (upper). The one above the dryer and in the middle are used for towels and rags on the bottom shelf, the footbath and rubbermaid box of lightbulbs and tissue on the middle shelf and pillow forms (sewing supplies) on the top, which I cannot reach without a stepstool, but can easily see once I open the cabinet doors. On the right is the wall that hides the furnace, then the hot water heater, which are behind separate cupboard doors and both sit about two feet off the ground. You don't see this, though. You just see a wall. There is no floor space for anything in the laundry area. If you keep walking, you pass under an arched doorway (used to be ridiculously narrow double doors) into the powder room. The sink is on the left with a cabinet underneath and a mirror above. The toilet is on the right with a small wall cabinet we hung above. The toilet is set back, as is the sink, so you don't actually SEE either one if you are just walking by from the LR to the kitchen (or vice versa). There is no floor space for anything in this entire "room", but one can walk through easily now that we altered the door situation.

Ah, a picture is worth a thousand words...
post #28 of 35
5/20/09 at 2:17pm
Sunny - that's a lovely wall color for the painting you have there!
post #29 of 35
5/20/09 at 2:20pm
About 80 sq ft? It's just a laundry room (I'm not a mutli-purpose fan), right off the family room.
post #30 of 35
5/20/09 at 5:59pm
The entire basement. I don't know what the square footage is.
I would like to have it on the main level but there isn't room.

In a previous home the laundry was in the large bathroom. It didn't make the bathroom look better but it was handy in some ways.
post #31 of 35
5/20/09 at 10:59pm
I voted w/d in a dedicated closet but they are actually in 2 closets. The washer is in one small closet that used to be a linen closet and the dryer is across the hall in a larger storage closet. The "dryer" closet still has some storage room in it. It is a little strange in that you cannot quite throw the clothes from the washer into the dryer but I have trained my sons to help me and they run the clothes from the washer to the dryer
PS There was originally a dedicated laundry room off the kitchen but the house was remodeled and the kitchen enlarged and the laundry room eliminated.
post #32 of 35
5/20/09 at 11:11pm
i chose other. not really sure of the size, but it's pretty large. we keep our washer/dryer outside on a large covered patio (separate from the patio we use for sitting). we also keep our hampers out there, a drying rack, a clothesline, my daughter's diaper pail and our weight bench and weights.

in southern california you can do (and hang) your laundry outside year round and i love that it frees up space in the house.
post #33 of 35
5/21/09 at 1:39am
Quote:
Originally Posted by ChampagneBlossom View Post
Sunny - that's a lovely wall color for the painting you have there!
Thank you!

That's the third color for that room. It was hard to get it right, but I was specifically going for a color that worked with that painting and two others in the living room of similar scenes. This "cranberry splash" color is repeated in little accents throughout the downstairs.
post #34 of 35
5/25/09 at 12:00am
Our laundry is in the "mudroom" area. The back door opens into this shed-like probably 8'x 15' room. We have a shoe rack and coat rack immediately inside, the washer and dryer and a built in bench with storage (which rarely get accessed because we dump all our junk on top!). We also keep the dog dishes there, and the cat food and water on top of the dryer (dog proof).

Our house is wacky in that this mudroom opens into the kitchen, but also to the split-level addition that contains our downstairs family room and the upstairs "master suite." So, if the laundry machines are running (we cloth diaper, so they're running every other day at least), it's pretty much a ruckus unless you're hanging out way up front. And really, who hangs out in the dining room or the guest bedroom? We use the subtitle feature on DVDs a lot because the laundry can get so darn loud. It's a pain, but I'm grateful to have laundry at home, after years of apartment living and using the laundromat.

I FANTASIZE about a laundry room with a door that closes it off from the rest of the house, storage cabinets, space to hang, a folding table and having an ironing board set up at all times. FANTASIZE, people. It's sad.
post #35 of 35
5/25/09 at 12:28am
I put other because I wasn't sure how a laundry in the basement should be counted. We do use the unfinished basement for a few other activities but it is mostly for laundry.

However, we are building a house soon and the laundry will be a dedicated room between the mudroom and the kitchen. I will have a sliding door that goes directly out to and area with an overhang where I can hang laundry year round for drying : The laundry room will be about 170 sq. ft.