The laundry room is probably the last place that comes to mind when you think of your favorite spaces in your house. Yet, we can’t do without it. Of course, even if you do have a whole room for laundry, we bet it would still not be your top favorite room, no matter what – but that does not mean no ideas could be found on how it may be made most efficient.
One of the problems of a small laundry room is that the owners can fail with the combination of the utility and the aesthetics. Another problem is the absorption of space or rather lack of it. With this design you should, preferably, be saving on space and have as much storage as possible. Here are more of the best and favorite ideas for a more utilization of your current laundry space.
1. Mudroom -Laundry Room
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The American coined term, mudroom, refers to a home’s causal secondary entrance purposely in a home to remove the ‘muddy’ boots, coats, and wet clothing before being ushered inside the main home or house. It is to accommodate storage and to make the other segments of the house as organized as possible. Integrating the mudroom is officially the most preferred organization technique in small laundry room options and ideas. It is best for it leaves more space where one can hang or dry the clothes. It also enables you the ease for washing, for example you can just put the muddy coat in the washing bin/sink.
This seamless zoning enables us to utilize organizational equipment such as; Brooms, mop rails, pull out laundry hampers, mounted ironing boards. Besides, a big sink with the retractable spray tab can be convenient; therefore, the muddy boots and shoes can be washed or even the dog bowls can be washed and filled.
Tip: If planning on adding a mudroom to your home, ensure ample space is allocated in your renovation or new build.
The small laundry room design above has hardwood floor, and lot of storage, both of which are necessities for both mud room and laundry room.
2. Double Your Load
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As you know when you have a lot of family members doing laundry could be a real nightmare. So it’s important to make sure that you double up your machine count in a way that you minimize on time.
This design of the small laundry room above makes good use of various shades of blue as a way of creating a welcoming pause from these extra appliances.
3. Liven It Up With A Pop Of Color
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If you have ever asked yourself what do with those barn doors well paint is a good way to bring life into a room. On the same note, there is nothing that will make you discover that there is laundry space in some of the homes you visit, and this is why the sliding barn door comes handy. By so doing, choosing the right color you can brighten up your barn doors such that the whole area does not appear as an added-on feature. In any case, you can always tell yourself that your barn doors are actually just the cover for a lovely surprise inside a box.
The picture is sliding barn door of the laundry room above it which is painted a very bold orange hue.
4. Crispy White = Crispy Clean
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This white and off white color was in trend for quite some time now and for good reasons. White delves a fake feeling of space and increases a room. Also, white is often employed in stewarding areas because it is easy to wash surfaces and them remain clean.
The white laundry room has a sink, folding counter with an integrated roll top, a stack of a washer and dryer, an ironing board as well as ample of storage recesses. The laundry chockablock seems to be very efficient and what is still more impressive is that this was possible in half the wall only. Furthermore, the white aesthetic creates a natural light which makes this room look fresh and clean.
5. Pull Down Drying Rack
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The beauty of having a room solely for laundry is that certain convenient is that you can incorporate features like a mounted drying rack that saves floor space. What is interesting with these dry racks is that there are easily portable or collapsible once they are not in use so they do not interfere with washing, drying or folding.
Thus, they are a convenient method with which clothes can be hung and dried at the same time and at the same time they help you to save considerable space. Besides, they are useful, especially when you are washing many clothes at a go.
6. Tucked Away
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The concept of tucking away your washing machine and your dryer behind cabinet is mostly practiced when you are grouping a laundry room with a bathroom. As it reduces on space as these two rooms have similar installations for instance the drains, sinks, faucets, countenances among others. However, it also makes your work easier particularly with the organization of water systems; washing and drainage systems.
The cabinets can be painted like walls so they can easily blend in with the other storage equipment that are available.If you’re doing a front-loading washer, this works great because it also disguises them well when people have open-concept floors.
The same is true if you have a cabinet-style storeroom that might take many lengthy minutes just to open in the first place. Both the washer and the dryer can be stacked on top of each other and together with shelves for the necessary items, help make the laundry day easier.
7. Saving On Storage & Space
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When it comes to a dedicated laundry room, there’s nothing like too much storage. In fact, the more storage you have the better. The trick comes in when you are designing a small place to put in in your home or office.
Laundry does not have to be large to be functional – it is all about using space available to the maximum.It’s about being wise and thrifty in all manipulations with spaces.What you’re trying to prevent yourself from getting is a laundry room that discourages you because it is cluttered.Storage is just like organizational help overall cleanliness and it brings a certain level of peace to the situation.
The fact that both drawers and pull out shelves are incorporation makes it easier to define particular areas for storing of bed linen etc. and store dirty laundry when doing the washing, or store clean laundry well, there is always proper space for folding of clothes.
It is good to have a pull-out drying rack because it does not consume much space. However, at the same time it is proved that the mentioned kind of the furniture offers the required built-in cabinets.
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Some other storage solutions you will come across include pull-out hampers cabinet designs which help in the organization of items while at the same time reducing movement. You can also keep your dedicated laundry room open with humble floating shelves. This means the storage solution can give your laundry room a more spacious look while at the same time providing additional places for supplies storage.
8. An Outside Affair
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It’s often difficult to separate all these pieces from washing if there is not a special room for it in the house. Well, if you don’t mind taking your laundry baskets now and then, then why not give your old shed or pool house a new life and take your dirty laundry to the backyard?
The main living area above is also black on the outside and features a more traditional farmhouse design on the inside.
9. Add A Counter Top
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Countertops are best suited if you can’t install your washer and dryer behind cabinets, closed-door or pre-built countertops. Then, all you need is to add an extended shelf on top of them. They give you sufficient space to fold your clothes right out of the dryer. In addition, it’s also a great way to repurpose old furniture.
10. Use Wall Storage
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Small laundry room ideas are all about getting the best of the two worlds in interesting ways. Like any part of a home, however small the space the laundry room for instance, may be, this does not have to translate to a dull and plain area. This is where your walls come in. Your laundry room must not be one of the most worrisome zones in your home, and for good reason: It can’t be. That way you know your walls are designed in a way that will assist you in your daily life by making everything easier for you to find, thus being more productive.
Some of the best small laundry room designs that show how to use space for wall also involve installation of shelves and hooks.
There is also the possibility to have a wall organizer, while technically it still provides for washing, it really means that washing laundry remains off the floor and counters in a more or less manner.So therefore you wouldn’t be stumbling around while you are attempting to remove the laundry from the machines.
Other ideas where to put wall storage in a laundry room are: converting crates to organize your cleaning supplies. They have been kept on top of other cabinets in the laundry room below, therefore on space saving. Also included is a bar that could be used as storage bar and also a drying bar.
11. A Touch Of Fun
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Who said cleaning couldn’t be fun? What is even better about having your own laundry room is the customization of the area, turns out.If you like to listen to music when you are busy removing the clothes from the washer, why not fit a sound system.
Besides this, we can state that color psychology has provided evidence that colors influence moods and feelings. Therefore, everyone desires to be in a room that would give him or she a certain emotion, temperament, or hot that he or she desires. For example, washing clothes is regarded as chore duty. The laundry room below has orange accents against cool gray founding but the fun blowfish print wallpaper makes it really playful.
12. Exposed But Stylish
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For some reason many homeowners have their laundry room in the middle of a hallway and if you are one of them, you might be asking yourself whether it is possible to make the floor space as stylish as the rest of the house. While there is not a lot you can do about it where your machines are exposed, that does not mean you cannot work with that surrounding floor space.
Other tips when faced with a problem of limited living space in the laundry room are; placing your machines under the stair.For storage, you can add inset shelves, There options for inset shelves, as you require space for other items.Moreover, we can hang small artwork by the side of these machines to lighten up that area of the workplace.However, if planning on wanting the stairs to stand out and add some flair, it is also possible to paint the stairs a different color.
