Other possible options. 1) Turn that closet that backs up to the front bathroom into a tiny laundry room with a stacking washer/dryer. Might be relatively easy to do b/c plumbing lines would already be in the wall. This spot would be close to the bedrooms for ease in putting stuff away but far enough away that you could probably run the washer/dryer without disturbing anyone who was sleeping. 2) Slice a slightly larger but still small laundry room out of your living room like this... Without knowing any dimensions it's hard to say for sure, but your front bath has to be at least 5x7, so the red square is at least 5ft x 6.5ft That's large enough for a washer and dryer to sit side by side and have room for a small clothes folding shelf next to the door. Whoever sleeps in the bedroom next to the laundry would need to either be a sound sleeper or you don't do laundry when they're asleep.

@Am.E, I'm clearly not with the pack on this one. My laundry used to be housed in a large closet in my kitchen (large enough for stacked machines, cabinet with laundry sink and tall storage unit to the right). When we first bought our house we did a gut and reno and everyone convinced me to keep the laundry there (it would be SO convenient they all said). Fast forward a few years and two children later ... I hated it. Weekends, the laundry would be piled up on the kitchen floor (I was working full time still then and weekends was when I could strip all the beds and do laundry). My husband wears suits and dress shirts to work M-T so there was often an ironing board up in the kitchen too. My neighbor has a laundry room as part of a mudroom off her side entrance and she too has an ironing board up all the time in her beautiful dining room (more dress shirts over there). I had a beautiful kitchen and it looked like laundry central. We finished our basement a few years ago and down it went (where I wanted to move it originally). It is a large space (just the way the layout of our basement worked) but I use it as a multi purpose room. I'm so much happier. Put in a wall mounted TV and have a large table on castors (ala Martha Stewart) for folding/crafts/wrapping. Put in two large IKEA PAX units to house out of season items (coats/swim gear/etc) and all the wrapping/craft supplies you could want. Also have my sewing machine set up on a nice desk and my elliptical machine (so I can exercise while I do laundry ... LOL). I have a nice chair to sit in and sometimes read a magazine in it while I'm waiting for a load to finish. It's a great space and I use it all the time. Let's be real ... laundry never ends ... I could almost live in that room :) The ironing board is up 24/7 and no one has to see it. There is also a nice hanging rod above it to hang dry my husband's shirts. It's not for everyone I suppose, but I'd much rather head down there and have everything so organized and easy to access. In a perfect world, I might install smaller Miele units on the bedroom level ... maybe (I have the Miele larger units in my basement). It might be nice to have the option to do more than one load at a time, especially as the kids get older and bigger but I wouldn't sacrifice my basement set up to do it. Good luck with your decisions!

I have an old bungalow, and one of the rooms upstairs was unfinished. I framed it out for a few closets, and we are putting a washer and dryer in there. Now I need to put in a vent. There is a run coming from the basement that goes to a small bathroom that I put a T on, and ran some 6" insulated ductwork behind the wall to the room. Now, the only place I can put the vent is in the ceiling (close to the middle of the room), or about 6 feet up near the corner of a room. I'm not sure which is best. To do it in the ceiling, the run from the basement has to be about 6 feet longer, and will be traversing an attic that leaves a bit to be desired with regard to proper venting (I'm addressing this next summer). On the other hand, putting the vent near the corner means a shorter run through uninsulated area, but now the heat is originating from a corner, and not the center of the room. Does it matter which way I go here? I'd prefer to go to the corner, cause I'm afraid the ceiling vent might detract from the cans up there.

for $150 or so, you can purchase an amplifier that will allow you to add another 12 meters or so to the cable length. The only amplifier I saw, limits the output picture to 1600x1200, which is the resolution of my current monitors (bought 4 years ago). My next ones will, likely, be higher and the booster will be of no help :-( No, electrically, DVI-D and HDMI are the same, so the transitions are nothing more than different connectors (understanding that the DVI cables don't have audio as stated earlier). You won't lose fidelity by converting back and forth. And yet the HDMI cables are available in much higher lengths, than DVI's limit of 15 feet... Can I use a 25' or 50' HDMI-cable to connect a DVI-D monitor to a DVI-D video-card (with a pair of adapters), or are such long cables usable only for TV and other, less demanding applications? I think, I'll try that out for myself next week right here, but if anybody already knows, I'd appreciate the info... Thanks! doofus