Laundry Room Ideas

Doing the laundry is just like doing the dishes.  It’s not fun; more so if the laundry room is tucked away in the basement- where it’s dark, cold and lonely.  Thanks to those ever-complaining working housewives of the 70s, the laundry room has evolved.  The laundry room can be a nice, airy and bright space to make the task of doing the dirty laundry less of a thankless job. Here are some websites that deal with great ideas for the laundry room.

1. Efficient Laundry Room Design:  This website gives you the nitty-gritty on how to effectively design and locate your laundry room. It is not right to put the laundry room in a high traffic area. It is also not conducive to locate the laundry room near the kitchen (as most homes do) unless you want the probability of grease on your laundry or washing detergent in your soup. (www.keidel.com)
2. Read this Before You Redo Your Kitchen:  Here is another website that discusses the pros and cons of a particular area for the laundry. It extols on the merit of a cozy and small laundry room. There are four important things that need to jive when planning a laundry room and they are the appliances, supplies, baskets and work surface.(www.thisoldhouse.com)
3. 1,367 Laundry Room Designs Photos: There’s a laundry room design here that will suit your needs and tastes. Who said a laundry room has to be dull and boring? The ideas presented here are fun, attractive and very functional in terms of human (or mommy) access and circulation. The designs are great! Who said you can’t put a desktop/laptop, sofa and a television in the laundry room? (www.houzz.com)
4. Laundry Room Organization Ideas: There are plenty of things that you can do to make your laundry room highly functional. A revamped laundry room does not necessarily mean you have to knock down walls and put up a new wall to remedy your cluttered laundry room. Here are some organization ideas you can do for an improved laundry room. (www.marthastewart.com)
5. Quick Tips for Organizing Laundry Rooms: The laundry room is not just for washing, drying and ironing clothes. It is also that area in a house where rain/snow jackets, rain/snow boots are stored albeit haphazardly by the whole household. The idea for organizing the laundry room is to sort, rid, assign and containerize everything that is dumped in the laundry room. (www.hgtv.com)
6. 12 Ways to Beautify Your Laundry Room:   You can beautify and convert your laundry room into a nice, organized work area by painting the walls a different color or stenciling them.  You can make useful drying racks or remodel the closet for a more space-efficient laundry room. (www.tipjunkie.com)
7. Laundry Room Makeover (video): Here’s a short video clip on how to do a quick laundry room makeover. Yup! It’s not only us girls who get to have makeovers… laundry rooms too. Watch and learn. (www.houseandhome.com)
8. Washer and Dryer Stuff: Before planning the layout of a laundry room, the first thing that you should do is choose the washer, dryer and any other big appliance that you wish to settle in the laundry room. When you have chosen, the get the dimensions of the appliances so you can integrate them into the floor plan. Here’s a website that presents a list of residential washers/dryers, their reviews and comparative prices. (www.howstuffworks.com)
9. Washer Buying Guide:  There are different types of washing machines and dryers. There are top-loading ones, front-loading ones and combination washer-dryer.  These machines vary not only in load, height, depth and width but in functions and settings. It’s up to you to choose the best one to suit your requirements. (www.reviews.cnet.com)
10. Storage System: Here are some great, inexpensive and useful clothes storage solutions for the laundry room courtesy of IKEA.  You can always make good use of these movable storage solutions for clothes, linens and towels.  (www.ikea.com)