What do you think of this laundry room layout?
Michael Lamb
6 years ago
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Building a custom home, what do you think about this layout? This room will serve two adults and two kids.
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Comments (5)LL-that is what started this whole thing - the windows are apart in the drawn plan but it messes up what we like in our 'inspiration' elevation. Go figure! Enduring - we have a top load washer and dryer that's pretty new - but that's not to say we'd not change over at some point. But for now I have to plan it with the top load in mind. The island sounds really cool and would be a great surface area for folding - ironing (I have been known to skip the ironing board for about any flat surface near by), etc. I am not sure I can part with the hanging area though. With double rods you'd think that would be enough but.......ya know how that goes! I am trying to balance hanging and drawer space. I hang almost everything except undergarments and grubby yard work clothes. lyfia - ugh. :( Ours doesn't get terrible but you are right it does have more lint floating in the air. Lolauren-my drawings are hard to read a bit - sorry. There IS a pocket door planned for the wall that is between the closet and the master. It will likely not be closed often but I want that choice and it gives additional sound buffer from the washer and dryer. I actually really only want a nice little space for a bench and some hooks for the front entry. We have infrequent guests and they really only have a jacket and shoes and so that would more than suffice. Here is a pic of one I saw at a parade home this year. Granted it's recessed and pretty small but I really thought it a perfect solution! Hubby changes into uniform at the 'office'. He comes and goes in plain clothes - they do not take a car home. All of his off season uniforms we can easy store in the basement - all that poly/wool is THICK and takes up a bunch of room. The hall closet there I think will end up being more like 2x5 and hold extra blankets maybe and pillows. I don't know - we have a lot of that kind of stuff. Maybe we will put shelving in one side for games, etc. We have a lot of those too! I did draw up and option #4 but haven't scanned it yet. It allows for a bit of privacy for the WC but still no door and does shrink that closet a bit. This is more difficult than I thought. I hope to present some ideas and see what he can work up within our sq footage. I didn't plan for the 6" wall spacing even though I know it's there - I'm hoping he can figure that out too! My eyes are crossing from counting little squares. ;) Putting these windows together is a bugger. I think I could get used to them apart quite easily but it's a no go for DH. :( edit:: missed half of my reply! This post was edited by Autumn.4 on Sun, Jul 14, 13 at 14:13...See MoreDo you think espresso cabinets would look good in a laundry room?
Comments (9)Yes i do! I actually have some design sense and wanted to be an interior designer. I installed new Espresso color thick carpet in my whole condo, i loved the color, sheen and the way it hid the stains. Lol im bad i know, but i had light color carpet before and it was a mess to keep clean, to the eye. Only problem was when i installed the Espresso color carpet was that my walls were bright white and i didnt like the contrast, the dark brown per say and the white walls, just looked odd to me and bugged me, Finally i gave in and put color on the walls! Reason i say all that is, if the walls are not white, go for it. Maybe re think the color of the walls as to me, the silver of the washer and silver of the walls might clash with one another, if just not the perfect, complementing shades. You could do a creamy rich, off white, like vanilla. What i did in picking the colors for my living room and bedrooms was, i went to home depot, i picked out all the colors that immediately caught my eye. Then i took home two or three of the same paint swatches home, taped them together, then taped them on the wall to be painted, in different areas, to see which color i like better. It was better for me than using one swatch of color and trying to decide on a big blank white wall. So i used three and taped them together and made the swatch 50 % bigger! Its up to you in the end and what you like. But i do think the espresso will work very well with the silver, or graphite appliances, just a little weary on silver walls. I used the Berh paint and primer in one, used less coats and the color came out very nice! The green is, chinese jade and the yellow is, pyramid gold. I had to put into mind all the colors i already had, the carpet, my couch, coffee tables, dining table. This is also what i did, i fine tuned into what colors i wanted for the walls, then i took other swatches, for instance, i have white baseboards, so i got a white swatch, i have a orange couch, so i got an orange swatch, i have espresso carpet, so i got an espresso colored swatch, then i put them all next to the color of the wall swatch, to see how well they all mixed together! And to me, the colors couldnt have fallen into place any better. Also made my condo feel more like a house, more like me, more personlized! Imagine the walls in the photos before, white! What a big different a little color can do!...See MoreWhat do you think of these layouts?
Comments (19)There's additional length available to the kitchen that would allow a sunroom peninsula eating area to actually be placed in the current kitchen area (with a post at the door end supporting the roof), leaving the "sunroom galley" relatively spacious and comfortable for traffic--4 feet wide. I'd definitely open that wall entirely, giving the kitchen that lovely view outside, and with it light and charm, especially inviting as you walk out the (dark?) bedroom hall? Beyond this dramatic improvement, to also improve whole-house and rooms function at minimal cost, how about concentrating your expenditures now on making relatively minor changes to develop a functional layout that'll work well for you? This mostly by adding and moving doors/doorways and maybe plumbing as needed. I'd leave the kitchen door to the sunroom/back yard--important if the peninsula's to be used and for kitchen access to the back. Possibly also create another between the sunroom and den too, depending on how that served what you want the rooms to do. With no dead ends in these perimeter rooms,though, the family would circulate through use and them all, with the kitchen more heart-of-home and less a continuation of the bedroom hallway. The other door to move might be DRM to sunroom, slid up into that corner to keep traffic as out of your way as possible. Oh, A/C. Well, still desirable. It'd also give the DRM more pretty view and less kitchen-at-work. The fridge would have to move, of course, with that entire counter open to the windows. How about to the stove wall, where it would join counter area for lunch making, plus toaster, microwave, cereals, etc.--all the stuff you need out of the cooks' busy prep/cook area? Thus the entire current left side of the kitchen would be devoted to meal prep, cooking, and cleanup. On both sides, your current cabinets are units that can be taken down and reinstalled in other positions, allowing you to decide right now on the layout with greatest functionality and appeal to you, moving the cabinets and plumbing, etc., as needed to achieve that (whoops another expenditure now, but now's the time). Puzzle time! The end game would be that focusing specifically on rearrangement at this time--whether this or some other design entirely--would give you a very good functional layout now that you could then build on over time as you desired....See MoreWhat do you think of my layout? All help appreciated!
Comments (84)llucy - Thank you for your kind support!! I felt so much better after reading your post. You are right, having to sacrifice the nook and eat at an island is never something I wanted to do. It would feel like a sacrifice, but if I was getting something otherwise fabulous in return, I would at least consider it. If I could snap my fingers and have the perfect solution, it would be to still have a kitchen table and any island seating would just be 1 or 2 spots for perching, not for dining. So, the U shape really does start to make sense. Thank you for the link to the Houzz ideabook! That really helped me and actually got a few new ideas flowing in my mind. The pantry doors will be changed, so that section can be made to look very different. sena01 - Thank you again for more options! It is so helpful to see things in 3d. The one with the bar table actually looked good - I just can't see needing the duplication of another table. But, it visually made the most sense probably. I'm going to play around with your idea of moving the dining nook! It's something else that I never considered and at first the new kitchen looked quite small, but then I saw the section against the dining room wall, so that might give me enough storage. Thank you again! tracie.erin - Thank you for drawing out this layout idea. It's actually fairly close to an idea proposed by a KD I met with. At the time, DH was not open to losing the U shape, so he kinda nixed it, but I'm going to explore this idea further. I like that I can still keep the kitchen table as the more I think about it, the more that seems important to me. Thanks everyone for your continuing advice and ideas! I can't even tell you how much this is helping me. DH is very busy and doesn't want to be too heavily involved in the details, so it's so valuable to me to get to talk things out with all of you! I'm having a GC over on Monday to discuss. I will report back once I have a better sense of my construction limitations....See More
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoMichael Lamb
6 years agoNo ironing. I had not thought about having enough space to rotate the appliances and get them in place. I think there will be enough room based on this?
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