We tell you how to design a laundry room, and show you interesting ideas from design projects.

Unlike Western countries, where public laundries are popular, in Russia it is customary to wash at home. But most often a separate room is not allocated for these needs, and the machine is placed in the bathroom under the sink, and sometimes even in the kitchen or in the hallway. In fact, a laundry room can be organized even in a small city apartment, and it is doubly easier for the owner or hostess of a country house to do this. In this article we will tell you what to consider, and consider examples of projects.

Laundry design in the apartment and house

Features

Laundry room, laundry room, utility block are all these words called a utility room (or a separate area, for example, in the bathroom), where a place for washing and drying things is organized. Most often, towels, household chemicals, cleaning appliances, etc. are also stored here.

This is convenient for several reasons:

Where to equip

You can allocate a place for a laundry room both in the house and in a city apartment. Only the dimensions of the room and its location will differ.

In a house

In suburban housing, the situation is much simpler: as a rule, there is no shortage of square meters, and a household unit can be planned where it is convenient for you, choosing not only the area, but also the shape of the room. 

The laundry must meet several requirements:

Most often, the utility block in a country house is made on the ground floor, in the pantry, next to the dressing room or under the stairs. It is better to distance it as much as possible from the living rooms so that the sound of working machines does not interfere with rest.

In the apartment

In the apartment, it is a little more difficult to allocate a place for laundry: you need to work with the existing layout and start from the location of communications.

The most popular places for laundry in the apartment:

Filling

The filling of the laundry area is determined primarily by its size. There is enough space on a couple of squares only for the most necessary, and in the presence of 8-15 sq. m. m you can arrange a whole complex with several zones.

What should be mandatory:

This is a necessary minimum, but it is not necessary to be limited to it. To make the home laundry even more comfortable, you can add:

Despite the fact that this is a utility room, it should correspond to the general style of housing. To make it seem more cozy, add a little decor: wicker baskets, posters, a vase with flowers or dried flowers, beautiful containers for household chemicals, aesthetic textiles. If the room is decorated in the loft style, add hang lamps on chains and put boxes instead of soft baskets.

Examples of projects

Consider interesting laundry design ideas in a private house and a city apartment.

In the bathroom

In the apartment, the easiest way is to organize a laundry room in the bathroom, as was done in this project. Next to the sink and mirror, a utility cabinet was built: not too massive, but roomy. Several compartments were made in it: for household appliances, ironing boards, household chemicals, powder stocks and other small things. And all this is hidden behind minimalistic light facades, which, when closed, practically merge with the finish, thanks to this, the real dimensions of the storage system are not conspicuous.

In the pantry

If you have a pantry, even if it is very small, you can allocate a little space for a household unit in it.

In this project, the washing and drying machines were placed vertically in the classical way. They are located opposite the entrance, and an ironing board fits perfectly into the gap between the side walls and the wall. The rest of the space in the pantry is occupied by shelves on which it is convenient to store spare bedding, household chemicals, cleaning appliances and an iron.

In the hallway

And here’s what a miniature home laundry hidden in an ordinary closet might look like.

The storage system is located in the corridor, and in a closed form it is impossible to understand what is behind its doors. If you open them, there will be a full-fledged household unit with everything you need inside. There is:

On 1.5 sq. m.

Sometimes the household unit needs to be placed on a very small area, for example, in this bathroom it was possible to carve out only 1.5 squares.

In order to place everything you need on such a limited meter, the designer planned a practical closet in which there was a place for:

The wardrobe is made in the style of general finishing, and all the storage is hidden behind the doors as a result, the interior of the bathroom looks very neat and concise, while everything necessary for washing and ironing things are collected in one place.

In the niche

If there is a niche in the bathroom or an opportunity to equip it, it will be an excellent place for a compact household unit: it will fill the free space and will not take up extra space.

The owners of this apartment made a custom cabinet for the size of the niche and overall equipment. It provides a column for washing and drying machines (they are fixed on a special shelf for vertical installation from the manufacturer) and a narrow storage section with two pull-out baskets in which it is convenient to keep household chemicals, cleaning accessories, toilet paper. Two more deep shelves are made upstairs, they are closed with louvered doors, which the owners painted themselves to match the finish.

Laundry room in a private house

And here is an example of how to conveniently and stylishly arrange a laundry in a country house. Thanks to the large total area for the household unit, it was possible to allocate enough space.

The room is decorated minimally and elegantly: different types of marble on the floor and walls, the texture of wood, half-open facades of lockers that echo the laconic blinds on the windows. The room has two functional areas: a set similar to a kitchen, with main storage and a sink in one part and an ironing board system in the other.

Everything is provided here for comfortable household chores: a lot of drawers and shelves for household chemicals, textiles and other things, a washing machine and dryer, a sink and even a stool on wheels so that you can load and take out laundry sitting, not bending down.

In the closet

Another project in a private house, but this time they allocated not a separate room for household needs, but a comfortable corner in a spacious bathroom.

The bathroom is decorated in a cozy white-brown-blue color scheme, tiles and different wood textures are used in the decoration, which organically echo nature outside the window. The laundry area was organized in a cabinet made to fit the specified dimensions, which is located between the sink and the window. Louver type doors hide equipment and storage, but there is no sense of solidity and bulkiness of the structure. The dryer and washing machine were placed on top of each other, shelves were made higher for storing necessary things.

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