I’ve an almost-free day right this moment, and I’ll lastly be capable to get extra work completed on the studio cupboards (for the primary time since Monday), so I hope to have some progress to share with you tomorrow. However within the meantime, I’ve grow to be a bit obsessed (once more) with our ground plan for the addition, and final evening, I turned my consideration to the laundry room.
Proper now, our “laundry room” is a nook of the sunroom. For individuals who don’t know, our so-called “sunroom” is the worst room in the home, and it’ll finally be torn right down to make room for the addition. It’s only a unhappy (however large) room that I maintain hidden away behind our music room and these fairly doorways…
I don’t like opening these doorways or going into that room. It’s not nicely constructed in any respect, so the home windows are low cost and drafty. The room doesn’t have any HVAC vents, so the room will get extremely sizzling in the summertime, and chilly within the winter. Plus, the room doesn’t have any lights. So I don’t like moving into there, however that’s the one area I’ve proper now for the washer and dryer.
When individuals see the remainder of our home, the very last thing they’d anticipate when opening these doorways behind the music room is to see this…
So evidently, I’m actually trying ahead to the day that this room will get torn down. And I dream concerning the day that I can have a wonderful, organized laundry room with precise lighting, a window that really retains the surface air exterior, and an HVAC vent to control the temperature always of the yr.
After spending the final a number of days reviewing our ground plan for the addition and tweaking that plan based mostly on a number of of your ideas, I shared the choices with my mother, brother, and sister-in-law yesterday at lunch. I believe this was the group favourite so far as the master suite closet(s) and the closet for Matt’s gear…
However my mother jogged my memory that I ought to make the laundry room as large as attainable as a result of proper now, I wrestle to seek out room to retailer issues like my carpet cleaner, vacuum cleaner, and so forth. All of my cleansing provides are at the moment saved in a cupboard within the walk-in pantry, which appears (to me) like an odd place for cleansing provides. I’d somewhat have these in a laundry/utility room. I additionally want a spot for my cat’s litter field and further cat litter, different pet provides.
So with all of that in thoughts, I tweaked the plan but once more to bump out the laundry room…
Heck, ultimately, I’ll most likely simply find yourself bumping the entire addition out these 7.5 toes. However for now, I’m simply concentrating on the laundry room, and dreaming of what’s going to be. So with the laundry room bumped out, I’m left with one other area that will probably be lengthy and slender. I’m guessing it will likely be 7’4″ x about 15′.
So I went looking for the way to prepare an extended, slender laundry room, and let me inform you. I got here throughout some wonderful inspiration, and I’ve such a imaginative and prescient for this room now! Whereas my preliminary thought (which truly got here from a few of your ideas) was to place the sink underneath the window, what I truly discovered myself essentially the most drawn to are the lengthy, slender laundry rooms the place actually every part is lined up on only one wall.
This one is my absolute favourite that I’ve come throughout to this point on Houzz. I maintain going again to this one and staring, dreaming, and planning how I can have my very own that’s organized like this, however with every part I would like in that room.
After all, mine can have far more colour and sample. And also you higher wager that I’m going to let myself flip that area into slightly jewel field. So far as colour and sample, I can think about one thing extra alongside these strains…
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Though I’m probably not a “wallpaper on the ceiling” sort of particular person. However you higher consider there will probably be some enjoyable, colourful wallpaper on the partitions!
One of many issues I really like about this association is that I gained’t must take care of cupboards that wrap round a nook. I all the time discover it so irritating to determine what to do with these blind corners. This configuration eliminates that frustration. Plus, I can have a much bigger window this manner. An above-the-sink window would essentially must be smaller. With that wall free, I can have a a lot greater window, which suggests extra daylight!
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So I’m now ridiculously enthusiastic about my future laundry room. I’ve imaginative and prescient for it, and I do know the scale, so I can begin planning how I need the cupboards and storage organized. And since I’ve a colour as a leaping off level (my new washer and dryer are darkish blue), I may even begin getting some concepts for wallpaper!
Photo by Esslinger Design Company – Search laundry room design ideas
I simply love this everything-on-one-wall association with the window on the finish. I believe it’ll be good for my future laundry room!
I’m going to maintain dreaming about and planning this area, in addition to our new bed room, household room, and again patio. However for right this moment, I’ve some studio cupboards to work on. I hope to have some progress to share with y’all tomorrow!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
