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Utility and laundry room layouts

14 years ago

We'll have a utility room on the first floor (the first long narrow pic) and a laundry on the second (where the bedrooms are). The entrance to the kitchen from the utility room is next to the broom cab. The door next to that goes to the motor court. The door by the bench goes to the garage.

please let me know what you think of these layouts and anything you would do to improve them.

Thanks

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akrogirl
14 years ago
Lucky you to have so much space to work with :-)

I would like to move the drip dry area in the upstairs laundry room so that it is adjacent to the sink. Otherwise, you will be constantly carrying wet clothes over the W/D area.

Also, in your utility room, I don't see any storage in your wonderful craft area - love the two big windows, btw! I know in my case that storage for craft items is an ongoing issue. Again, I see that the plan calls for the sink and drip dry area to be separated.
haden
Original Author
14 years ago
There will not be a w/d in the craft/utility room so that will be a cabinet. Maybe we could use that to store craft materials.
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akrogirl
14 years ago
I'm not sure what sort of crafting you do, but some of the members here have posted photos of their craft areas which include some wonderful ideas for making efficient, yet still attractive, use of the available storage space.

Since you are not planning on including a w/d in the utility room, I would suggest moving the sink over towards the drip dry area and putting a nice large cabinet next to your craft table or, depending on the type of crafting, put in open shelving uppers along that wall to keep a more open feel and maintain that nice long stretch of counter top. The exception to that would be if you have children who will be doing a lot of painting in that area, lol, in which case you might want to keep the sink adjacent to the table ;-)

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