Main Floor Laundry Closet

In many cases we are remodeling a kitchen along with creating a new laundry room.

Main floor laundry closet.

While meals are being prepared it is quite easy to wash and dry a load of laundry if the machines are near the kitchen. A soaking sink and countertops for folding clothes. Photo by andy crawford getty images. The connections in your laundry room will likely dictate your choice.

We often reuse the kitchen countertop material such as granite or corian in the laundry room. Off the kitchen in its own room. On a second floor try to position it so it backs onto a bathroom. Don t put the laundry too close to sleeping areas.

If the best moisture proof floor covering for the laundry room is a single unseamed waterproof piece of material then sheet vinyl flooring is it. The noise will keep you awake. The main floor space was a guest room closet cum overflow zone. Moving washer dryer to upstairs laundry room the pros.

A curtained cabinet hides the litter box for the. A washer drain pan shown to catch drips especially for machines on main living levels. A laundry on the main floor or upper level instead of in the basement is a step saving convenience you ll appreciate for years. No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.

The dirty clothing sheets and towels that make up 95 of our laundry are generated on the second floor so having the laundry room upstairs eliminates the lugging of laundry baskets up and down the stairs. Sheet vinyl flooring. Off the kitchen let s start with what many designers say is the best location for a laundry room. Suped up sink photo by lisa romerein.

Laundry room on main level house plans eliminate the inconvenience of having to run up and down basement stairs where the washer and dryer are often located to wash clothes by placing the facilities on the ground floor. Do carefully consider location. Curtains for kitty photo by lisa romerein. He prefers finishing the whole laundry room floor with tile and installing a floor drain.

But if you have both a gas hookup and a 240 volt outlet go for gas. For convenience on the main floor anywhere off the kitchen makes sense as does a mudroom or off the garage. A pull down ironing board. 1 2 3 under washer tray 30.

Laundry room design ideas browse pictures of laundry room storage and organization. The logic is that most people spend the bulk of their time in the kitchen and kitchens tend to be on the main level of the house also where most of our time is spent so locating the washer and dryer near the kitchen makes sense. Price and stock could change after publish date and we may make money from these links.