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The space is adequate, but not ideally arranged. Our laundry room is in the basement, two floors below the bedrooms. Now, by way of comparison, let me open up my house to you. My House Bad Laundry Room Ideas Start at Home That is becoming the standard in most homes and needs no special mention here except to say that it is especially convenient way to do laundry when you have to work from a wheelchair. The washer and dry are stacked high and front-loading.

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The island is full of storage for all the things that a laundry room needs, and for a few things it doesn’t need but have nowhere else to go. This provides a great surface for laying out clothes as you are in the process of folding them, and gives you plenty of space to make piles of clothes that are ready to be returned to bedrooms. The laundry room also has a large central island.

I think the idea has great potential and perhaps should become a desired or even normal feature of a home. You could also add little changing closets if the laundry room did serve as a primary dressing area.īedrooms could be arranged around a central laundry room, and the laundry room could be placed to be within earshot of the main family room. There might be privacy issues where some kids might not like getting dressed in such an environment, but you wouldn’t have to store all your clothes there. Kid’s clothes could be kept on the lower racks while Mom and Dad could keep theirs up high. Rosemarie, being kept low to the ground courtesy of a wheelchair, has all her clothes stored in a lower rack.įrom an accessibility standpoint this is a great arrangement, but consider how you could do the same thing for a family.

Mark, being a tall guy, has all his clothes on an upper rack of clothes. In this case maybe we should call it a work-in closet. The laundry room essentially doubles as a walk-in closet. Closet Maid installed two walls worth of closet storage in the laundry room. Not shown in the drawings are the clothing racks lining the laundry room. The Floor Plan The Best Laundry Room Ideas are a Matter of Logistics The logistics of the flow of clothes into the laundry room and back out, and the arrangement of clothes in the working area, is a critical factor in the success of any such laundry operation. I know some families that keep two sets of washers and dryers going seemingly around the clock. While this handy layout is a great convenience to Rosemarie and Mark, I keep thinking that the same basic arrangement would be especially handy for a large, active family. It is the way that the room is integrated into the house, and the layout of the room and the equipment in the room. It is not just the room itself, nor the equipment installed in the room. I admit that I was not looking to do a write-up on laundry room ideas, but then I had never seen anything quite like the laundry arrangement in Rosemarie Rossetti’s house. Perhaps the most outstanding feature of the Universal Design Living Laboratory is the wheelchair accessible laundry room. Put simply, this is the story of the best laundry room operation I have ever seen. I was so impressed with their laundry room design and the way that it integrates into their overall floor plan that I decided that their story was not so much an issue of accessibility as of good design. I visited the home of Rosemarie Rossetti and Mark Leder which doubles as the Universal Design Living Laboratory.

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This article on laundry room ideas is a continuation of a series on accessibility in the home.

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