I think a good thing to consider when designing a laundry room is that you cannot have functional without F-U-N. Let’s face it, doing laundry is a tedious affair. Why not try to spice things up a bit with a laundry room that is as appealing esthetically as it is practically. Choosing color pallets that are a little outside of the norm for you may be a good place to start, but more importantly consider all of the fun and attractive ways you can add glorious storage to your laundry room without making this essential workspace an uninviting household pariah.
These days many eye sores and messes are being averted by combining the purpose of a laundry room with that of a traditional mud room. Armed with this combination in mind and a good idea of all of the storage solutions out there you can effectively make your laundry room the primary staging area for many of your family’s indoor and outdoor activities as well as create a work space that you actually enjoy being in.
· Have custom made lockers in your laundry room where each member of the family has a space that they can store their shoes, coats, backpacks, etc.
· Incorporate a tiled area with a drain in the floor and a hand sprayer for bathing your pets or cleaning the mud off of your shoes.
· Place your pet’s water and food bowls in an open/ doorless cabinet, so they are off of the floor, out of the way, and easier to reach.
· Peg boards are finding their way out of the garage and into the laundry room, where you can store important household tools and gardening equipment.
· Pull-out or drop-down towel racks are no longer just a laundry room accessory because when you have dirty, wet items that need to dry where else are you going to hang them?
· Custom wood rods with decorative valances in your laundry room give you some place to hang clothes that cannot be dried in the dryer.
· Hampers and ironing boards are a laundry room must. Incorporating them into the cabinetry provides easy access and storage without being an eye sour.
· Mount a TV in your laundry room for times of ironing and folding clothes.