This is a high-use space, whether you like it or not. We design laundry rooms to be efficient, organized, and built to handle real life. And, real life looks different for every home - some of our clients need a space to fold, others want a hamper per family member and some even want it to double as storage for all their house cleaning gear. Whatever the case, when we’re designing a laundry room, it’s never just a row of machines with some cabinets around them.
A favorite architect of ours always says that laundry only moves two ways: either by you carrying it or by you wearing it! So, it makes sense to place a laundry room in a spot where the distance you’re carrying it to and from a closet is the shortest! When we have full control and lots of room to work with, we always prioritize a laundry room adjacent to the primary closet.
Laundry in a mudroom isn’t a bad thing - it’s certainly better than being in the basement. But, we’ll always tell you to focus less on Pinterest pictures of laundry rooms and think more about what the process of doing laundry for you actually looks like. Will you be tripping over piles of dirty clothes? Where do you want to be folding things? Is the noise going to be a bother? Will guests have to walk through on their way to the powder room?
