57 Small Laundry Room Concepts

57 Small Laundry Room Concepts

57 Small Laundry Room Concepts

Heidi Caillier

As a substitute of treating your laundry room—i.e. the toughest working area in your house—as an afterthought, give it the love and care it deserves with the fitting beautifying decor and strategic structure. In spite of everything, if the kitchen is the center of the house, the laundry room is the kidneys (not the sexiest analogy, positive, however neither is sorting by dirty laundry, so stick with us right here): completely essential in terms of conserving issues clear. And it does not must be big to take action, so if your private home is not blessed with an enormous area to scrub and fold your garments, haven’t any concern. All the laundry room concepts forward, every with accompanying group and storage suggestions, will assist you take advantage of what you do have. And past performance, we additionally included loads of adorning concepts, since laundry rooms deserve design love regardless of their measurement. In addition to, laundry day is tough sufficient—it’s possible you’ll as properly do all that washing and drying in a trendy area. Forward, get impressed by over fifty small laundry rooms straight from our favourite designers.

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This marigold yellow multi-use room by Stephanie Sabbe in Home Lovely’s Entire Dwelling challenge incorporates a laundry nook with a single unit washer-dryer equipment from LG. All of the controls for each the washer and the dryer are at eye stage for straightforward entry, rushing up family chores.

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Put Machines Behind Barn Doorways

Barn doorways painted a crips white distinction with the cream {hardware} for a delicate but fashionable affect that makes this shabby stylish laundry room by Leanne Ford Interiors mix in stylishly. To not point out, barn doorways and pocket doorways save area within the adjoining areas.

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Give Each Views and Privateness

A fairly blue paisley print wallpaper is the proper transition piece between the laundry room and adjoining residing area designed by Anna Spiro. A blue ticking stripe sample on the Roman shades and tile flooring makes the utility room fairly sufficient to be uncovered by an inside glass door—however, ought to one resolve to shut it, the glass is lined in an identical ticking stripe cloth curtain for privateness.

Tammy Randall Wooden of Inside Archaeology made positive to carve out a particular room for laundry and flower arranging in her Spanish colonial house within the Santa Monica mountains. The laundry room options zellige wall tiles and a soapstone countertop and backsplash. A glass-enclosed cupboard permits her to see all her vase choices whereas arranging flowers, too.

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Disguise Issues With a Curtain

Now, it is a intelligent approach to conceal a large number! This luscious purple velvet curtain in an eclectic kitchen designed by Tamsin Johnson Interiors retains storage areas and home equipment discreetly tucked away. The curtain is extra eye-catching than a door—to not point out, simpler to put in your self. If in case you have an identical setup, the place your laundry area lives inside a bigger room, think about hanging a rod and curtain to maintain it out of sight when not in use. Hand them from the ceiling if it isn’t already in a closet or area of interest.

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Select Supplies Properly

Tile flooring will likely be straightforward to wash (which will certainly make life simpler in a laundry room) however in addition they have the flexibility to introduce type and persona. Heidi Caillier laid an angular chocolate brown and white sample that speaks to the gorgeous marble veining within the counter tops.

Whereas the candy-colored pendants, candy gingham cafe curtains, and prim wallpaper (together with the blue floral one mirrored within the mirror!) are what make this laundry room by Anna Spiro so beautiful, the sensible parts needs to be celebrated, too. The room is conveniently situated by a terrace for air-drying freshly laundered linens, and the brick flooring are tremendous sturdy and age fantastically, so inhabitants do not must be treasured.

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Cling a Drying Rack Above the Sink

In a small laundry room, you may need to preserve floor area free, which suggests utilizing your partitions and ceilings, too. Designed by Sarah Solis, the hanging drying racks preserve issues out of the way in which. (We love this one from deVOL Kitchens!) Plus, fairly painted cupboards draw consideration away from less-than-appealing machines.

If you cannot set up your laundry machines beneath built-in counter tops or behind a closed door, simply add an prolonged shelf on high of them. On this laundry room designed by Toledo Geller, the shelf obscures the machines whereas additionally offering some floor space to work on.

Designer David Kaihoi used some severely sensible storage options to make his New York Metropolis condo really feel like house—together with creating this compact laundry “room” in his closet. That approach, when he isn’t doing laundry, he can shut the door on these eyesore home equipment.

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Use Fluted or Frosted Glass Doorways

In a pint-sized laundry room, Dee Murphy tucked unpleasant laundry necessities behind a fluted-glass cupboard door. This materials obscures eyesores but in addition takes up much less visible real-estate than painted-wood cupboard doorways.

This laundry room designed by April Tomlin Interiors is stuffed with classes, however maybe an important one is on show proper on this little nook: Purchase in bulk! You will at all times want laundry detergent and cleansing provides, so when you’ve got sufficient space for storing, the cash (and journeys to the shop) you may save shopping for in bulk is certainly value it.

This tiny laundry room from Plain English Kitchens proves that conventional simplicity by no means goes out of favor. Although old school, it has all the trendy facilities. A single scalloped pendant lights the room and butcherblock counters make for a sturdy worktop. Rust-toned paint colour is dressed up by a brass faucet.

For those who’ve already obtained a flat floor for folding laundry, think about putting your machines in an elevated built-in platform to present your again a break from pointless bending. Annie Selke included loads of cozy nooks for her pets to chill out on this laundry room, too.

This is one other nice pet-friendly laundry room. Designer Emilie Munroe sourced the stylish meals and water bowl drawer in addition to the orb mattress from Meyou Paris. And, as an alternative of constructing in cupboards beneath the worktop, she left room to retailer an old school rolling laundry bin.

This small laundry room designed by Gail Davis is bursting with persona, from the colourful wallpaper, to the framed paintings, blue trim, and striped penny tile flooring. And also you need not construct customized cupboards and cabinets to have additional surfaces for folding. Simply slide in a lucite aspect chair! They take up just about zero visible actual property.

If in case you have a big house—or household—think about doubling your machine depend so you should buy again a few of your time. On this completely preppy laundry room designed by Mark D. Sikes, the numerous shades of blue present a nice distraction from the additional home equipment.

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Embrace Matching Finishes

This neutral-toned laundry room designed by Gil Schafer exudes English-country timelessness, from the uncovered hinges and farmhouse sink to the normal flush mounts. Although it is not seen from the kitchen, the cabinetry mimics that of the kitchen for a constant look within the house.

Designers Andrew and Yvonne Pojanni tucked a washer and dryer behind closed doorways of their toilet; the cupboards are painted the identical colour because the partitions to assist the storage mix in. In case your home equipment are front-load type, it is a nice approach to conceal them in plain sight in uncovered areas and open ground plans. Visitors won’t ever guess that is the place you spend your time on laundry day.

“I actually wished it to really feel like our grandparents’ properties,” Lauren Atkins informed designer April Tomlin of her design goal when redecorating the household house she share along with her husband Thomas Rhett and their three kids. “Their properties are what impressed us to construct a house for our household and associates,” she added. And that ethos is utilized even within the laundry room. Tomlin opted for a vintage-looking sink with an old school skirt and retro-inspired laundry cart. These small touches make chores really feel particular and related—folding another person’s garments is an act of affection, in spite of everything!

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Make Up for a Lackluster Window State of affairs

You possibly can nonetheless take a look at one thing fairly in case your sorting and folding workstation is missing within the window division—that’s, it does not take pleasure in a pleasant view, and even one in any respect. Right here, Pleasure Cho lined laundry room partitions with a whimsical tile backsplash, which makes doing mind-numbing duties way more pleasurable than if you’re watching a clean wall.

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Reconfigure a Powder Room

Convert an underused powder room right into a laundry room if you do not have spare area to construct one. Designed by Heather Chadduck Hillegas, the fragile cafe curtains, farmhouse-style sink, and conventional lighting and mirror make the room really feel way more elevated than your common laundry space.

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Separate with Pocket Doorways

Pocket doorways can assist break up a laundry room into areas with distinct makes use of, so you’ll be able to shift gears mentally whereas in every space. Within the case of this sunny little workstation designed by Barry Dixon, additional sq. footage was repurposed as a flower-arranging room.

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Set Up a Urgent Station

“To avoid wasting steps, I put my laundry room on the second ground, close to the linen closet and bedrooms,” says inside design Betty Lou Philips. “It is smart for it to be there, nevertheless it needed to look good since it isn’t precisely hidden away. The mangle—or rotary iron— is nice for urgent every thing from mattress and desk linens to denims and t-shirts.”

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Safe a Dry Cleansing Drop-Off Zone

This is not truly a laundry room, nevertheless it undoubtedly aids in laundry-room group. Between all the web orders and foot site visitors, a safe spot for deliveries and equipment (like umbrellas) is extra important than ever. A supply closet on the porch of our Entire Dwelling Idea Home 2018 even had a garment rack for dry-cleaning deliveries.

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Play with Waves of Navy

This is one other nook of Gil Schafer’s English-inspired laundry room. The rotary iron is tucked between the wall and work desk for straightforward entry with out blocking foot site visitors. Including a small folding desk is a good way to repurpose outdated furnishings or stash further furnishings when firm is not round—consider it as a conveyable kitchen island.

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Cling Cleansing Instruments from Hooks

Set up a chosen place to hold your entire cleansing provides: Not solely will wall hooks put them inside straightforward attain, they will additionally preserve them out of the way in which. This discreet hanging rack has been painted the identical colour because the wall so it blends in seamlessly.

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Preserve a Steamer In Your Closet

Stop journeys to the laundry room (or the laundromat or dry cleaners) by conserving smart-investment tech like this LG steamer conveniently tucked away in your bed room closet. However conserving one within the laundry room to de-wrinkle objects proper out of the dryer is not a nasty concept, both.

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Disguise Machines Behind a Skirt

You need to use a tiny laundry room for a number of functions (like because the bar throughout a celebration), in the event you hold curtains in entrance of your washer and dryer like Heather Bullard did right here.

Flip your laundry room into one thing incredible by tenting it with vibrant swags of material—or at the least faking a tent by commissioning an artist to color one, as Melissa Barbieri did right here.

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Get Work Achieved Between Hundreds

“You possibly can see our laundry room from our household room, so I wished it to really feel embellished with out being overdone,” says inside designer Philip Gorrivan. “I lined the partitions with Philip Jeffries aqua grasscloth and the ground with Chilewich wall-to-wall matting for colour and texture.” There’s additionally just a little stool and counter so you’ll be able to make amends for emails and get work accomplished between hundreds.

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Give It a Double Perform

Customized cabinetry helps a mudroom seamlessly transition right into a laundry room in a cohesive shared area designed by Eric Olsen. Customized {hardware} extending from the built-in bench to the sink space and stylish black-and-white equipment full the look.

No area in your precise home for a laundry room? For those who do not thoughts the additional trek, contemplating bringing your soiled garments outdoors as an alternative, right into a pool home or unused shed. The elegant exterior and farmhouse-style inside of this yard construction designed by Hadas Dembo units a excessive bar.

Wallpaper is ideal for tiny rooms, like a closet transformed right into a laundry area. This one designed by Cameron Ruppert Interiors solely has room for stacked machines and a hamper, so she gave it some life with colourful wallpaper and a cheerful pendant mild. “When you’ll be able to’t construct out, construct up,” she says.

A modestly-sized two-in-one machine is usually a sensible addition to a small toilet. The tiny moist room in a house from Implausible Frank’s portfolio of properties is a superb instance of a strategically designed tiny toilet excellent for condo residing.

Select a sturdy and easy-to-clean floor materials for the counters. Something high-gloss, whether or not it is a lacquer paint over wooden or laminate materials, will do the trick. On this trendy and minimalist laundry room by Arent & Pyke, the reflective counter makes the room really feel greater whereas additionally being straightforward to wipe down.

Save a nook by the window for flower arranging, as Reath Design did right here. The mixture of job and pure mild is good for hand-washing and recognizing small stains, too.

This laundry room, designed by City Grace Interiors, incorporates a front-loading washer and dryer, which lets the householders take advantage of their restricted counter area. We additionally like that there is a sink separating the 2 machines for a extra distinctive structure. For the reason that overhead cupboards solid a shadow, the designer added additional job lighting.

As a substitute of taking on ground area with a standing drying rack, designer Dina Bandman put in a customized Lucite rod between two higher cupboards on this San Francisco laundry room for damp clothes. Sure, even a drying rod might be fairly! Additionally, notice the hamper tucked beneath a cupboard however uncovered, so it may be grabbed rapidly when it is wanted.

Stone tiles are a sensible laundry room ground choice, due to their sturdiness and informal look. However what actually units this laundry room by Heidi Caillier aside is the enjoyable marigold paint and heat brass flush mount mild. For those who’re fortunate sufficient to have a laundry room, why not have enjoyable with it and experiment with a brand new paint colour? It is a good way to check run new shades earlier than committing in a bigger, extra guest-prone area.

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Alternate Cabinetry Sorts

Alternating between uncovered and closed cabinetry, this light-filled laundry room by Studio McGee holds all of the necessities. “We added an open shelf above the counter to assist preserve area feeling open and visually fascinating,” says designer Shea McGee.

Inside designer Danielle Colding reworked this basement laundry room right into a full of life area that we would by no means thoughts coming all the way down to for chore obligation. In reality, the pops of orange contrasted with soothing cool grays and enjoyable blowfish-print wallpaper may even make it top-of-the-line rooms in the home.

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Suppose Fashion and Substance

A trio of retro hampers on this laundry room, designed by Emily Henderson, aren’t simply charming—the wheels additionally make them straightforward to maneuver round the home. Assign one to every member of the family to assist them preserve monitor of their very own laundry.

Have you ever ever seen a extra refined laundry room? Designed by Arent & Pyke, this area makes doing chores a lot extra inspiring. The machines are tucked behind a smooth khaki inexperienced closet door so our eyes can concentrate on the beautiful marble backsplash as an alternative.

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Use All Accessible Partitions

Repurpose crates to maintain your necessities organized. Right here, they’re stacked on high of the cupboards, actually making use of all potential area. Then, safe a single rod to your wall for a makeshift drying rack in a small laundry room.

Most laundry rooms are small, which leaves restricted area for thrilling design moments. So get inventive with each floor potential! Right here, Anna Spiro painted the ceiling a lightweight blue colour and used a mossy inexperienced gingham skirt to cover home equipment.

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Beautify With Intention

On this minimalist laundry room designed by Robson Rak, even the important objects are fashionable. The black hangers intensify the trendy black ladder, which is each ornamental wall artwork and a useful device.

Even a teensy, tiny laundry room can really feel like a jewel field with the fitting paint. On this one designed by deVol Kitchens, the blush pink cocoon is each daring and easy. Since all of the surfaces however the counters are one colour, it feels a lot greater than it’s.

Earlier than falling in love with a particular structure, take into consideration how you may use the area. For instance, this laundry room designed by Sherry Hart and Jennifer Jones Condon additionally capabilities as a mudroom. To clear up some area for a doggy bathe, the designers stacked the washer and dryer vertically.

A assured ticket to a enjoyable laundry room expertise? Audio system. Danielle Colding put in a sound system on this energizing blue room to make even probably the most mundane duties just a little extra inspiring.

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Do Some Blue Sky Dreaming

When your laundry room is definitely simply smack dab in the course of a hallway, you may need to ensure that it appears as fairly as potential. This uncovered laundry area by Amber Interiors blends proper in with the remainder of the partitions within the corridor, nevertheless it’s brightened up by recent florals and a colourful space rug.

Preserve your laundry provides organized by conserving them in a single place, like on a tray on the counter. Right here, Emily Henderson additionally transferred them to glass canisters and opted for a lint curler in the identical hue of the painted cupboards for a extra elevated aesthetic.

In case your laundry room doubles as your mud room, make it pet-friendly with built-in feeding bowls that may be simply tucked away when not in use. Jenn Feldman Design took the theme to the subsequent stage with dog-print wallpaper.

This laundry room designed by Studio Life/Fashion feels dressier than most, due to the wealthy navy cupboards, elegant marble backsplash and flooring, and wooden grain ceilings. The farmhouse sink and sconce make it extra approachable and likewise supply a extra informal and useable workspace.

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Mount Issues to Closet Doorways

Not solely does a wall-mounted organizer save worthwhile ground area, however it could possibly additionally match inside a closet if you do not have a devoted laundry room.

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