A laundry room is just another utilitarian room in the house. Or is it?
After reading Crissy’s post, My Laundry Room,” I was inspired to write my own. After all, I learn a lot from the way other people have their homes set up, and I am always looking for suggestions for my own.
Just like Crissy, I seem to be doing laundry all of the time, but it is no longer daily. With our new larger capacity washer, I find that it is usually more efficient to wait until I have an overly full basket of one type of laundry before I do my loads.
Our laundry room is a little room sectioned off from the basement. There are two doors going in and out of this room. While we recently refinished the basement, we didn’t do much to the laundry room, other than relocating our upright freezer next to the washer and dryer. That room also contains the furnace for the house, a utility sink, an old wooden table to the left of the sink that is mostly used by my husband, a smaller 50’s style red formica style table that I use for laundry, several shelves and the entrance to the crawl space.
My shelves are pretty well organized with laundry products in one section, and the beginnings of a small stockpile of cleaning supplies and health and beauty products. My husband stores paint and small tools on the other shelves. We are in the process of rethinking our storage, so that might change.
The room could probably be a bit more efficient than it is. I still find myself sorting dirty laundry into piles on the floor. And sometimes things that are waiting to go into storage in the attic wind up in that room, such as winter gear.
As for the appliances, I have the new top loading washing machine and a newer (within the last couple of years) electric dryer that tends to spew lint at me when I open the door.