breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Dec 9, 2023 15:26:41 GMT
I've had the upstairs laundry, and upstairs bedrooms and liked it. 90% of the dirty laundry was upstairs, so it worked. There are pans you can get so if there's a leak it's contained.
Currently we have a downstairs laundry closet (under the stairs) and all the bedrooms are upstairs... The problem isn't that the machines are downstairs, it's that it's not in a room, so there's no place to store the hampers until they can get washed. So, when I open my front door, I see what looks like the apocalypse of laundry baskets...
We have talked about moving the whole thing to the other side of the wall (which would be in the garage) and turning the laundry space into a pantry (we don't have one of those) but in reality it's never going to happen. What might happen is there's this vent at the top of the stairs we have no idea what it's for, which could easily become a laundry chute, depositing dirty laundry right around the corner from the laundry under the stairs situation. Very tempting!
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Dec 9, 2023 15:32:54 GMT
I spent years dragging a laundry basket up the stairs to the bedrooms in our two-story home. No way I want to do that now that I’m older. These days the laundry room in our single-floor home is near the garage at the front of the house. You could throw it down the stairs, and then put it back in the basket at the bottom of the stairs... not that I've ever done that or anything  |
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Post by ntsf on Dec 9, 2023 15:46:10 GMT
I have a 1927 house.. I wish the laundry was on the top floor next to the bedrooms.. instead I have to schlep the laundry down two flights to basement and up two flights.
I have the laundry next to bedroom in my little resort condo.. and it makes it so easy.
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Post by hop2 on Dec 9, 2023 15:55:21 GMT
Well, mine is currently in the basement, it was not my optimum choice but compromises had to be made and that was the compromise. I literally got everything else I wanted in the house. There are probably ways to move it upstairs but that isn’t high on the priority list right now. If I win the lottery I’d put an addition on for the laundry room. Lol. Otherwise one day I’ll put a stacked set in my closet. I’m waiting to see how the 2 in ones pan out they are too new. ( well that and I need to upgrade my electric panel first ) if those turn out in time to be less reliable then I’ll get a stacked set. It’s in my 5 year plan.
At this point though, if I ever move again, my home, including laundry, being all on one floor is going to move up the priority list.
I drag my feet at doing the laundry partly from the stairs and partly from the gloom in the basement
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Post by milocat on Dec 9, 2023 16:00:26 GMT
It's a big deal to me. We live in a bungalow and the laundry room is on the main floor. Same. It's close to everything. |
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Post by padresfan619 on Dec 9, 2023 16:29:40 GMT
I spent nearly a decade between college life and apartment life before living in my own home schlepping laundry to communal spaces or back and forth to my parents house. I was just thrilled to have a washer and dryer in my home at all. We technically don’t have a laundry room, it’s just in our garage. The way the hook ups are in our old house means our washer and dryer aren’t right next to each other which I’m sure would be a deal breaker for most but I’m just so happy I never have to go to a laundromat on a weekly basis anymore it doesn’t bother me.
Our washer was broken for a couple of days earlier this year while we waited for a replacement part. The thought of having to drag my family of threes laundry to my parents honestly made me anxious!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 9, 2023 16:39:38 GMT
At our last (100 year old) house, it was in the unfinished basement which wasn’t ideal. In my current house it’s on the main floor and that works for me. While we do have a laundry chute in DD’s bathroom, it empties out into an enclosed catch all in the main floor hall closet. For me, using that would be more of a PITA than carrying baskets of laundry down the stairs. We have a pretty big walk in closet in the master so I have space for a laundry sorter. Clothes are sorted as we take them off which makes it easy to just take one load down at a time. DD’s clothes are the only ones that have to be sorted from a big mixed pile, and that’s only because she doesn’t have the space in her room for a sorter like I have.
My laundry room is located on the main floor at the back of the house, adjacent to the garage. The door from the attached garage is a straight shot down a small hallway with the laundry room at the other end. There’s an 8x10 mudroom and a 3/4 bath in between. The laundry room is huge with a lot of built in cabinets and a long counter. Since I never actually fold laundry in there, it didn’t make sense for all that space to be wasted. I converted it into my cookie room. It works out pretty well with all the counter space, sink and storage.
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Post by alsomsknit on Dec 9, 2023 16:45:49 GMT
I didn’t vote.
I like my basement laundry room because of its size. Enough room to have 4 six foot lines about 12 inches apart to hang things. Under the lines are 2 three sectioned sorters. It works well for our needs. In part because it is located off the family room. It isn’t a dungeonish basement.
I did have plans for an addition to the house which would have added a master bedroom and closet, including a washer and dryer area. It would have been fantastic for when the Boy was younger with all the extra laundry. At this point it would just be redundant.
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mlana
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Post by mlana on Dec 9, 2023 17:39:37 GMT
When we looked for our house, I wanted the laundry room on the same floor as the master. My reasoning was the kids would leave, but DH and I would still be here and maybe not be able to carry laundry up the stairs.
My laundry room isn’t next to the master, it is a room down the hall. I have to carry DH’s laundry down stairs to the basement as he is now disabled, but I carry it folded in a basket and he hangs it up.
This works for us
Marcy
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Post by roundtwo on Dec 9, 2023 17:56:30 GMT
I would hazard a guess that in nearly all of the UK, washing machines are in the kitchen or in a utility room off the kitchen. I had this set up when I lived in London and I thought it was great. The washer and dryer were in a little utility room that also housed a few shelves so easy to keep every thing neat and tidy. Our laundry is in the basement and I really don't like it - we are planning to stay here forever so carting laundry up and down stairs in a few years will not be ideal. I have moved a lot and most times it has been in the basement but a couple times it was on the main floor and I loved it. My parents live in a two story home and it is in the back of the house on the second floor - you can't hear the noise in the bedrooms and no stairs to navigate with laundry baskets. Perfect setup as far as I can see. They have been there for coming on 40 years now and have never had a leak. |
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Post by don on Dec 9, 2023 18:29:34 GMT
I would like my laundry room fairly close, within 2 or 3 blocks, and be fairly reasonable in price.
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dexter
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Post by dexter on Dec 9, 2023 18:43:44 GMT
I live in a ranch and laundry is in the basement. My previous home was a 2 story and it was also in the basement. Not ideal as u am getting older I can see it becoming an issue in later years.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Dec 9, 2023 22:35:52 GMT
<-UK No laundry room here but I would love one. My washer/dryer is in the kitchen. We just got a new one.
I had a laundry room in Australia and loved it. Having said that, in Australia I scarcely ever used the dryer. I just hung everything outside and it was dry enough to put back in the cupboards the same day. We only owned one set of bedding for the 2 years we were there.
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Post by Zee on Dec 9, 2023 22:53:49 GMT
I really don't care as long as it has its own room. Right now it's on the second floor with the bedrooms but I liked having it on the main floor in my past homes. It also doubles as my cats' dining and bathroom so it definitely needs to be its own space.
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Post by Linda on Dec 10, 2023 0:01:45 GMT
Happy to HAVE in-house laundry - when my oldest was a baby and in cloth diapers - we didn't have washer/dryer in the house we rented nor was there a laundromat within walking distance so I did laundry in the bathtub. Later we lived in apartments with laundry rooms (separate building) and finally one with hookups - DH was so proud the day he brought home our first washer and dryer!
Our first house had a laundry space off the kitchen with the door to the back yard - convenient for line drying. Second house had a good size laundry room off the kitchen with space for our freezer and pantry shelves and again the door to the back yard.
This house? the laundry is in the back hallway off the kitchen. There was a door which we took off. Then one long wall has a narrow pantry closet and the washer/dryer plus overhead cabinets. The short wall has the hall bath door and the other long wall has more overhead cabinets and the garage door. This is also our first two story house - there is no basement and while there are 3 bedrooms upstairs, the main bedroom is downstairs. I wouldn't want an upstairs laundry esp. given my mobility issues.
My only issue with it is there's no easy access to the backyard for line drying - DH hasn't put up my clothesline yet but my choices will be to go through the garage, out through the garage doors (no person door - just the overhead car ones) and around the back OR through the kitchen and living room and out through the screen room to the back OR through the kitchen and dining room and out the front door and around the house. None of which are very convenient/
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Post by dewryce on Dec 10, 2023 0:23:55 GMT
I definitely wouldn’t want a laundry room on a different floor than the main bedroom. I schlepped enough baskets around in our early apartments! We also have a 2 story, all bedrooms are on the 2nd floor, as is the laundry room. I actually don’t use laundry baskets to carry laundry, I fold it as it comes out and then take the stacks to our closet. Same with hanging clothes, hung straight from the dryer. That would be a serious pain if the laundry was downstairs. Now we have a tiny basket for kitchen and powder room linens to go up and down and that’s it. These days there are drains in the floor and a plastic resevoir to hold the water so I imagine most of the time overflow is caught that way. Unless your husband forgets to reconnect a hose before starting the rinse cycle and the hose hangs over the resevoir. Then it might flood your garage. Not that I’d know.  |
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Dec 10, 2023 21:21:45 GMT
My laundry room is also the mud room/pantry. It’s on the same floor as our primary bedrooms, but about as far away from them as you can get. It has 2 entrances—one from the deck and one from the entryway beside the garage.
It is “somewhat important” to me to have the laundry room where I spend most of my waking time, and that is NOT near the bedrooms. I want to multitask while I’m doing laundry and would completely forget about changing a load over if it was back near the bedrooms. So not a dealbreaker, but I really prefer to have it away from the bedrooms.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2023 22:40:45 GMT
I'm just happy to have one. We spent 20 years living in a tiny three bedroom ranch. Our laundry "area" was on one end of the kitchen. It was not good. It was off in it's own area but open to the kitchen and tiny. Now we have an actual laundry room. Still small but much better.
I mean yes, I'd like one near the master bedroom IF I had a one story. But we have a two story and I don't like the idea of a potential flood/ceiling damage. One day we'll move to a one story and if it's near the master bedroom, great, but not a deal breaker.
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pantsonfire
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Post by pantsonfire on Dec 10, 2023 23:09:59 GMT
As long as it isn't upstairs, I am good. So many friends had leaks and damage from upstair laundry rooms.
Either downstairs off the kitchen to the garage or in the garage.
Ours is currently in the garage and it doesn't bother me.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Dec 10, 2023 23:19:46 GMT
It’s a pretty big deal to me, bordering on dealbreaker. I want laundry on the bottom floor, regardless of where the bedrooms are. After a friend was out of their house for seven months due to water damage from the supply hose to an upstairs washing machine failing while they were out of town… no thank you. We had a washer hose failure on a second floor laundry room in our very first house. Our current laundry room is on the first floor and it's absolutely true that 99.9% of the laundry has to be carried up and down the stairs, but my husband still had trauma from our first 2nd floor laundry room when I suggested relocated it off the master when we were doing a remodel. I plan on converting one of the bathrooms on the second floor to a laundry room once my kids are flown. We'll do a whole overflow connected to a drain which will be easy in a bathroom with preexisting drains. It will help make the house more age friendly as hauling laundry up and down stairs is going to be less and less fun as we get older. |
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Post by gracieplusthree on Dec 11, 2023 13:10:16 GMT
Never have had a whole room dedicated to laundry. Current washer and dryer are in front bathroom..
As for preference. My biggest thing 8s I never want a house with more than one level for many reasons, so therefore don't want Laundry in basement etc..
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 11, 2023 14:25:15 GMT
I put down deal breaker... normally I would have gone with very important but not a deal breaker. That said, just for fun, I was looking at some model houses a few years ago.. Beautiful modern homes they were building. Nothing I would have bought if looking for something to buy, one because they were three stories high.. LOTS of steps. And not my style.. but one of the models in this three story house had the washer/dryer on the lowest level while the bedrooms were on the top level. WTF. WHO in their right mind would want the laundry so so far from the bedrooms. I can see if the W/D were on the main level but in the corner of the lowest level. NOPE.. so I moved to the 'deal breaker' if I ever buy another house.
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Post by fotos4u2 on Dec 11, 2023 18:23:04 GMT
Around here it seems to be the norm for laundry to be in the garage as every house we've owned, plus my parents and grandparents houses, have had it there (So Cal, no basements and doesn't get too cold here). When we've lived in two stories it's been a bit of an annoyance, but otherwise not a big deal. That said my current home has the main bedroom (aka mine) next to the garage and it's a bit of an irritant because I can hear the washer/dryer in my room. This means we can't do laundry at night because I'm a pretty light sleeper (my oldest daughter LOVES to put a load in at 10pm just as I'm going to bed).
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Post by tealpaperowl on Dec 11, 2023 20:40:03 GMT
We have a ranch. Our laundry room is good sized but in our finished basement. I would absolutely love if it was on the main level...
But since it's on the same level as my craft room it does get done very often - which is a plus!
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The Birdhouse Lady
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Dec 11, 2023 20:45:54 GMT
I live in a two story home and our laundry room is off the kitchen. I love that.
Our bedroom is on the main floor but, when our kids lived at home their bedrooms where on the second floor. I never had a problem toting the laundry upstairs.
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