How To Design A Utility Room

*This is a collaborative post

A well-planned utility room can make a boring task easier, and help you to reach the bottom of the laundry pile.  Whether you’re renovating or extending your home, adding a laundry room can be very worthwhile. If planned well, this room can be practical and become a space for tasks beyond doing the laundry. 

Use a company like Veejays Renovations to help you design a laundry room that is more than just practical. A well-designed room can add value to your house and encourage a potential buyer when you decide to sell. The extra space to store large appliances and get chores done is also very useful. Even if you don’t plan to sell, getting this task out of the kitchen frees up space and moves noisy appliances away from where they might disrupt family life. 

Make it for more than just laundry

A utility room can be easy to use for multiple purposes, as well as doing the laundry. Obviously, a laundry room can be used for washing, drying, and ironing, and the layout of the room should make these tasks simple to manage. You could also use this room as a storage space for bikes, spare coats, boots, outdoor toys, and gardening tools. Move other appliances in there, like an extra freezer or the dishwasher. Some people use their utility room like a mudroom. They usually have direct access to the garden, and thanks to having a sink and the washing machine right there, it’s easy to handle muddy dogs or children coming in from outside without them spreading dirt elsewhere in the house. 

Where should you position your laundry room?

If you can, put the laundry room where it will have direct access to the kitchen and the garden. Having it close to the kitchen makes sense, as you will have easy access to existing plumbing to connect the appliances. If you have used the laundry room as somewhere to keep an extra freezer or a dishwasher, being next to the kitchen also makes a lot of sense. 

Having access to the garden is also sensible. You can come in through the back door and use the utility room as somewhere where you can remove dirty coats and shoes, or let the dog shake off wet fur. It also makes it easier to take a load of laundry outside to hang it on the washing line without carrying a heavy load of wet washing through the house. The external wall will also make it easier to fit an extractor fan in order to properly ventilate the room. If you have a vented tumble dryer, you will need an external wall or a window so the hose has somewhere to go. 

Keep the laundry room away from bedrooms and the living room, so you can close the door on noisy appliances and keep the rooms you use for relaxing quiet and free from looking at that pile of ironing that you need to get round to. 

Do you have a laundry room? I’d love to see yours!