If your home has two or more stories then putting your laundry room on the main floor off the kitchen means that you re a flight of stairs away from the bedrooms and hampers on a busy laundry day that means a lot of trips up and down.
First floor laundry room in bath.
We often reuse the kitchen countertop material such as granite or corian in the laundry room.
In many cases we are remodeling a kitchen along with creating a new laundry room.
Here s what to factor in before remodeling your laundry room.
A laundry chute could cut down on some of those trips.
Find the price to add plumbing cabinets a utility sink and more.
To start we needed to raise the floor in the existing garage so it would be level with the rest of the house to create the new living space.
Leaks can damage first floor rooms.
This multifunctional room more interesting with good arrangement and organized such as storage racks wooden furniture and interior color choices.
But you ll still have to carry the clothes back up.
How to make any room into a laundry room.
He prefers finishing the whole laundry room floor with tile and installing a floor drain.
Find laundry room remodel costs including the cost to move washer and dryer hookups upstairs or into a converted closet or garage.
A soaking sink and countertops for folding clothes.
We used part of the back porch for the newly relocated bedroom closet.
A pull down ironing board.
Homeadvisor s laundry room cost guide gives the average cost of adding a laundry room to an existing house or building an addition.
Don t put the laundry too close to sleeping areas.
The noise will keep you awake.
No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.
On an upper floor.
While meals are being prepared it is quite easy to wash and dry a load of laundry if the machines are near the kitchen.
Can tap into existing plumbing lines if in or near a bathroom.
Your family will have no excuse for leaving clothes on the floor post shower when the washing machine is right in the bathroom.
Do carefully consider location.
Proximity to where dirty clothes are shed lessens schlepping distance with hampers.
Laundry room on main level house plans eliminate the inconvenience of having to run up and down basement stairs where the washer and dryer are often located to wash clothes by placing the facilities on the ground floor.
Moving washer dryer to upstairs laundry room the pros.
The dirty clothing sheets and towels that make up 95 of our laundry are generated on the second floor so having the laundry room upstairs eliminates the lugging of laundry baskets up and down the stairs.
Noise and vibration require extra insulation and a motion arresting pad.
On a second floor try to position it so it backs onto a bathroom.