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Our laundry room is near the bedrooms, which I like. All the laundry accumulates in that area...clothes, towels and linens. It is a small room with a door, but holds the large front loaders just fine. With the cabinets and counter it is very functional. I placed a shower curtain rod from wall to wall above the door for items to air dry or hang shirts out of the dryer. There is a bathroom just across the hall if I ever need a sink to pretreat.

My dream laundry room would a similar arrangement, but larger with a laundry sink, space to keep an ironing board up full time and more storage.

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Here in Greece most homes have their washing machines in the bathroom.I have it in the kitchen because my bathroom is pretty cramped.Very few homes have dryers and/or separate laundry rooms.
 
In the basement given the noise and lint.  But I've never lived in a place where they were otherwise so that's all I know.

 

Whenever I see upstairs laundry installations in cheap new construction (combined with cheaply made appliances) I just imagine water disasters (and our collective home insurance premiums going up.)

 

And that's a really great idea CircleW makes about new basement stairs that are safer and more comfortable.  Relatively easy thing to do that could make a big difference.

 

 
 
When I was a child, in the Southeastern U.S., the laundry room usually not in the finished part of the house. It was in the garage, or on the back porch, or in the basement (if the house had a basement, which most houses built in the '50s did not), or in a little unheated room off of the carport. IMO, the worst were the ones that had the detached laundry room off of the carport; you had to go out in the freakin' cold to haul laundry back and forth, and sometimes the you couldn't do wash because the plumbing in the room froze. People who used their back porch sealed them up in the winter by covering the openings with a heavy plastic, which actually worked fairly well.

A common thing in '70s houses was to have an alcove off to the side of a hallway somewhere. Usually there would be bifold doors to close it off. There was just enough room for the machines; no tub and no counter space. We lived in one house where someone had not done their figuring properly and there wasn't actually enough depth for the vent connection behind the dryer. A previous owner had already run into that problem and had "fixed" it by installing another 240V service and vent connection in the garage. So the washer was in the house, off of the (finished) basement hallway, and the dryer was in the garage.

When we designed our current house, my wife wanted a laundry room near the kitchen, so we have it just down the hall from where the kitchen is. Guests don't see it unless they go looking for it, but it's still convenient.
 
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">The first house we purchased in Cupertino not far from the new Apple complex was 900 sq feet. I assume a wringer washer was supposed to have gone in the small kitchen since the Crosley sink sort of had a separate drain area. The house had been modified so the washer and dryer were in the front yard facing the street. Sounds funky, but we constructed a long covered (GE Lexan) patio that ran the length of the house. There was a solid wood fence and double lattice at the top 1/3...perfect for peeking out. The washer and dryer were next to the water heater closet. I even installed a small laundry sink for giving Cinder, our black cocker spaniel, a bath. There were these small French doors that went into the kitchen and a little bistro table out there too for coffee. Doing laundry out there was fun especially when heavy rain pounded down on the Lexan roof. I guess there were times when it was chilly, but they were the best of times.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">There's still plenty of those little houses in "Rancho Riconada" for sale. Building restrictions now prohibit them from being leveled and 2-story mini-mansions put in their place. Those mostly 2 bedroom, 1 bath, carport, wall-furnace homes sell for $1.5 million and up. The house pictured is a current listing at $1,395,000...a real bargain with a pending sale.</span>

 

http://https//www.realtor.com/reale...85-Moretti-Dr_Cupertino_CA_95014_M26488-04637
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Note to add.

When Darryl and I finally build our house it has to have laundry hookups and a dryer vent on each room.

Just in case, in the bedroom there should be one on each side of the bed and one in front of the bed.

Don't forget the living room, the garage... and also a dedicated laundry room with not much, maybe 50 or 60 laundry hookups.

Oh, and also laundry hookups in all of the closets and in the bathroom... We never know, right?

And all the electrical, water heater and sewer must be ready to run all of them at the same time. Again, Just in case.

We never know when we may end up with a wash in or guests enough to use all the towels in the world, so we need to be ready to prevent any issues.
 
Location

Our laundry room is on the first floor in its own room. However, it is near the kitchen. So any time you are cooking and drying clothes, they will inevitably come out smelling a little like your dinner. This isn't ideal, but the home builder had the option to have the laundry either where it is, or in the kitchen behind sliding doors. So, I will not complain at all! It would be great to have a second floor laundry. I do not like it when the machines are shoved in a closet though. I feel like they require their own room. Also, if I were to ever build my own home, the dryer would be on the outside wall of the house to eliminate the distance from the back of the dryer to the outside of the house. I can not stand dryer ducts!
 
Now we have moved into our own home

I have a downstairs shower room with the washer and dryer in a corner where the hot water tank used to be. It is through the kitchen on the ground floor its ideal as its near enough to see when its finished and if unexpected visitors happen to drop by you can close the door and no one has to look at the piles of washing waiting to be washed.
Also I am lucky enough that I now have a outside wash room with a large sink and hot water boiler so when I wish to play with a wringer washer or twin tub its all there ready I will take some pictures of it when its finished meanwhile I have put 3 of my current location of washer. As I do 100% of the ironing I have a room upstairs with cupboards and space to leave the ironing board up I too have a steam generator and a Singer steam press and an old from the 60's Morphy Richards Roller iron all ready for when the urge to use hits....
Austin

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In New York City, most live in apartments. Those with washing machines almost always placed them in the kitchen. Everyone I knew did this. Our washers are usually way too big to be placed in bathrooms. It has been pretty common for the last 20 years or so for apartments having a laundry closet for a stacked washer/dryer, usually in the hallway near the bedrooms. Personally, I never liked having the washer in the kitchen, which is why I am building a laundry/utility closet for 2 washers, an overflow refrigerator/freezer and general storage.   But my dream would be a large laundry room. With bimonthly rotating washer and dryer sets, cabinets, counter tops, a double laundry tub (in porcelain of course), a large ironing board (always open), and tons of laundry products from all over the world. Oh yes.
 
When I was home shopping in Manassas-there was a nice home I looked at-but one problem-----the WD was in the MASTER BEDROOM--HOW STUPID.There was a place upstairs near the attic for them.Pass on that place.
 
The last family home I was in had them in the garage. The rental we were in 22 years had a laundry area behind swing out doors in the single bathroom. The manufacturered home we bought in 12 has a laundry nook by the back kitchen door. We put up a curtain to hide it but the laundry always takes over that area as we don't tend to run off and put everything away, just dig through the baskets as we need things.
I'd prefer a totally separate room or garage placement so everything isn't just sitting right in a busy living area. A place with a proper drain would be great in case of leaks as our old house the floor under the laundry was completely dry rotted from leaks and moisture from being a bathroom in general. Doubt we'll ever afford or decide to move but I'd certainly try to get a better laundry setup and some type garage and parking setup but always make compromises.
 
My sister's current house has the laundry equipment (stacked Maytag FL) in the downstairs bath near the master BR. Previously she lived in a double-wide that had a laundry area near the back door, and earlier she and her first husband had a mobile home with the laundry in the bathroom.
 

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