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Laundry Room Home Decorating Design Dilemma

Laundry Room Wall Cabinets - Size & Number?

4 years ago

I only have 89" width available for wall cabinets on one wall above washer, dryer, and hot water heater in my long, narrow basement laundry room. The cabinet above the electric hot water heater in the corner will need to be shorter than regular laundry cabinets; for example, short like a kitchen cabinet above a wall mount microwave. Any suggestions on best widths to use, since the cabinet(s) above the water heater must be 27-30" wide? Is it worth it to have clothes hanging space in the middle above the washer and dryer? Is it worth it to enclose the water heater in a closet to avoid the short cabinet problem?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Currently, this space has 19" deep home made cabinets with slowly warping shelves. I think new, white cabinets will be a good investment, even though I will need to redo the ceiling due to the depth difference.

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remodeling1840
4 years ago
I would move the laundry tub to the right, filling that 5” gap. I would add a wall and a door to the toilet area because people are uncomfortable using a toilet in an open multipurpose room. If budget is tight right now, I would still plan to make the toilet private in the future and that 5” space will be needed for 2 x 4’s and drywall on each side. I like your idea of using the space between the washer and dryer for hanging space. I use mine to hang clothes as they come out of the fryer and also for those delicate things that don’t go into the dryer. I had a built in water heater as you are suggesting. We built a cabinet above it, probably 24 x 24 or whatever is the same size as the water heater. It had such useful storage, going to the ceiling and having an adjustable shelf. Be certain to leave room to remove the water heater when it needs to be replaced. Get adjustable shelves for your two 30” cabinets over the washer and the dryer to give you flexibility in what you store there. It was useful for flower vases, light bulbs, extra paper towels,, in addition to Tide, Downey, and all my other cleaners.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
4 years ago
IMO a toilet without a bathroom type sink is odd. Also a toilet space with no door . How often do you use thea deep laundry sink/ I have actually never had a laundry sink in 50+ yrs and three kids. I find now they are even less important with all the choices of cycles in the new washers. Is this aspace that you want to be pretty ? If so you need to make an actual PR with a door . I would close in the HW and add louvered doos to that enclosure then you only need to worry about the area above the WD, put a nice shelf over the W?D for folding . Is there no way to handle some redo on the plumbing? That wall where the window is would be a pefeecr spot fot the W/D Exactly what is the measurement of the space in the other direction
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I am working on a reno for my mother in my home. She will have a wing of the house to herself. The idea is for her to have her own space and privacy. We will share meals sometimes but want a space that is all to herself for light meal, microwave heat ups, snacks at night, all at her fingertips without having to walk down to the main kitchen. We have a space that will primarily be a laundry room 7x11 she wants top loaders so the plan is to put them on the short length of the room and then we will include a 24" wide refrigerator/freezer and have a microwave in the space as well. The space will have lots of storage built in and I want to put in a laundry sink. Originally I was putting in a 24" wide sink as that is what was in the room we had before. But now I am thinking maybe I should go with a smaller sink because that side of the room will only have 48 - 54" of lineal cabinets to work with. I don't think half the space should be sink. I found Houzer CTR 1700 17" but it is referred to as a bar sink. The inside measurement of this sink will be 16" do you have any personal experience with this size sink? I would hate to have something that is difficult to work with and have water everywhere. Also for a space this size being 7 feet wide I was going to use cabinets that are less deep on the opposite wall using 15" base cabinets to give more floor space. Do you think that is wise or should I just use 24" cabinets on both sides of the room leaving 3 feet of floor space. I don't want the room to feel claustrophobic, I know I am loading up the room a lot and pushing it to do double duty.
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wdccruise
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Here's an interesting product: Flow Wall. You might install Flow Wall panels on the wall from the left-hand edge of the sink to the right-hand edge of the dryer. Then buy and hang various cabinets, shelves, and bins on the panels as needed. The nice thing is that you could add, move, or remove components as needed; nothing would be fixed in place like regular cabinets would be. You could add a shorter panel over the water heater.
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