Fun & Functional Laundry Room Makeover Ideas to Make Wash Day a Cinch
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Wet & Forget
(IC: professional)
It’s easy for your laundry room to wind up a jumble of unsorted clothes, hangers, and assorted junk. But if your laundry room is drowning in clutter, you’ll use twice as much time on laundry when you’d rather be relaxing with your family. These laundry room makeover ideas will keep things running smoothly and looking good!
The first step in your laundry room makeover is to make sure your laundry needs are covered. Will you be doing a lot of ironing in your laundry room? Make a designated space for ironing, with easy-to-reach hangers, starch, water bottle, hanging rod, and other supplies nearby. Do you do a high volume of laundry? Incorporate a good folding table that is just the right height for you, invest in a cushioned mat to stand on, and think about a wall-mounted TV above the folding table. Consider which specific things you use your laundry room for the most while you’re planning your makeover, and then make sure you make those tasks as easy as possible.
Laundry rooms are often on the small side, so it’s important to maximize your vertical storage space. This laundry room makeover used the hollow space between wall studs to hide a little fold-away ironing board and shelves for starch and other laundry products. These kitchen-style wooden wall cabinets give even this walk-through laundry space plenty of storage for laundry detergent and other items, and this setup uses the space between the cabinets and the washer and dryer as additional cabinet space enclosed by decorative drawer-pull-style doors, rather than just leaving it as empty space.
Above all else, your laundry room is a functional room. Just like your kitchen and bathroom, if your laundry room becomes cluttered and disorganized, it will keep you from getting the job done and chaos will ensue. The best thing you can do to make things easier in your laundry room is to keep it organized.
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Published January 7th, 2016 10:15 AM
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