How important is a window in the laundry room?
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Major remodel...how important is a powder room
Comments (7)Is the area of the new bedroom and bath close to where company would be? If so, could you have an entrance from the hall in addition to the entrance from the bedroom? Could you isolate the sink and toilet from the rest of the bath with a pocket door, and if so, would there be room in the rest of the space to have a shower and another sink? If your kids are anything like mine, the sink won't always be presentable when someone stops in and needs to use the bathroom, so if there was a way to divide the space, that would be ideal. On the other hand, maybe you could give your kids incentive to keep it spotless. If your house was on the market, for example, they would have to get used to keeping things pristine for showings. This could be a great exercise in teaching time management and cleanliness! One of my sons, in particular, was never good at building in enough time to put the toothpaste away, or to wipe up little puddles (and I take the blame on not insisting on better behavior), and I know I could have made it non-negotiable if I wanted to invest the energy. I agree with everyone that you don't need a powder room. We're doing a big remodel, too, and I find it is really hard to know when to stop. No house is going to be perfect, and you don't need to make every possible improvement just because " the best time to o it is when the walls are open". As Engineer Chic said, it's a lot of toilets to clean if you add another, and I also feel it is one more thing that can break, leak, or go out of style....See MoreOT, how large a sink for laundry room?
Comments (21)Fori, your post made me laugh. Partly why i want to stack the machines is to prevent the twins from messing with them. They LOVE pressing buttons... as for washing shoes, i hate hosing anything down outdoors. always end up spraying myself. haha.. Badgergal, thanks for the info on the kohler sink. it seems ideal for my space and now I really want it, but it may be out of budget. i did an amazon search for laundry sinks and they are all so pricey! the kohler tandem sink also looks very interesting with all of the extra strainers and attachements too.. sigh.. Gregincal, thanks for the feedback and the pic also. it really helps me visualize how much sink i truly need. I will look into the ikea sinks too. They may be more budget-friendly for me. Liriodendron, you make great points for the laundry sink! the depth sounds like it is important too. i am hoping I can find one within budget. If it helps you to decide on your laundry room planning, the Kohler website has a laundry room with 2 sinks, one that sits on the ground, and the other on the cabinets. If you have the space and budget for it, it seems very functional and convenient to have two sinks. here is the pic from kohler.....See MoreTiny laundry room - how to optimize space
Comments (12)The 2nd setup looks better. I would want an actual laundry tub myself - you know, the old-fashioned deep ones, with the washer drain line hooked over the side. I hate those tiny little boxes they want to put the drain lines in these days. Shelves mounted over the W/D are incredibly useful, as far as I'm concerned. I like having the laundry soap and etc right at hand. And by "shelves" I mean shelves, not cabinets. Doors just get in the way. Our laundry room is basically a tiny little "air lock" between the garage and the rest of the house. For some insane reason, they put all the shelves (cabinets, actually) on one side and the actual W/D on the other side. There is just barely room between to walk through from the garage to the rest of the house. They mounted a swinging door so that when the door is open, you have no access to the cabinets or (tiny) workspace which is now being blocked by the door. And if you CLOSE the door and try to use that as a workspace, now you are at high risk for getting whacked by the door when someone wants to come through. So all the space on that wall is wasted space. The cabinets/pantry are inconvenient, the counter space is only a couple feet wide, and there are no shelves mounted where they would be the most use - which is over the W/D, not behind the door on the other wall. Furthermore, there is no space to iron in there even if I were willing to risk door-whackage, because that space is blocked by pantry and cabinets. There is also an inaccessible outlet behind the dryer. I have no idea why that is even there. At the very least they should have put in a pocket door rather than a hinged door there if they were going to insist on doing it that way. Technically the space is around 6.5x8.5 - ish, but for all practical purposes, the only usable space is just where the W/D sit and it might as well have been set up as an actual closet with bifold doors. I've decided the vast majority of architects are morons. At the very least, they're not exactly Frank Lloyd Wright, LOL!...See MoreHow important is a sink in laundry room?
Comments (57)This is an interesting topic. In our previous home our laundry room had a sink, in our new home that we our building our laundry room is not laid out as well( I know crazy right?). I decided to eliminate the sink to create better space for the lockers, and added a slop sink in the garage, which is much better for my sons mud on everything which is really what I used the sink most for and filling the dog bowls, but my dog bowls will not be in the laundry room in the new house. I am not worried about it, I will have a bathroom sink and a wet bar sink on the same level, I really never soak in a sink(use washer) but can't remember the last time I soaked something. The contractor and plumber both said I needed to heat the garage for the sink, but I agree with a previous poster we had a hot/cold faucet in our last unheated garage and it never froze, what is the difference? If I was in a warm weather state I wouldn't think twice about it....See Morefahrenheit_451
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