Utility room or Not to Utility room?....
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My utility room-please help
Comments (3)I deal with a lot of laundry too, especially at times when the kids will bring me a weeks worth of clothing. Where I am we pay electricity at different rates depending on the time of day so if I don't keep it somewhat organized it will start to overflow because weekdays I can only do loads in the evening to save $. One thing I did was to install cabinets with doors above the washer and dryers. I just re-used ones from our kitchen tear out, but you can usually get second hand ones fairly cheap if you are on a budget. This keeps all our laundry washing/dryer needs tucked away. We also have extra batteries and lights stored in there and our first aid and medication in the other cupboard for us and our livestock. We also have a laundry sorter for darks/whites/linens. It looks like you already have a great set up for that with your bins. Not sure how old your kids were, but they can start at a pretty young age at putting clothing in drawers if label the drawers with pictures. I think my kids were about 5 when they started doing it. It wasn't perfect of course, but they would have to put them in the drawers after I folded the clothes. It helps if you don't have clothes that need hanging. My one teenage son still gets all his clothes in drawers because they never seemed to make it on hangers in the closet. I would designate a folding area for the counter above the appliances and the counter above the cabinet as where folded clothes stay until their owner puts them away. I'd also maybe put some hooks or a rod above your laundry sorter. This would allow you to have clothes that are hung put on the hangers until they are put away....See MoreShoe Bench for a Utility Room
Comments (8)The only way to do this involves moving some cabinets. There is a lot of vertical space available opt 1) remove the upper cabinets near the window. Place the freezer on top of counter. Use the former freezer area to build in shoe cubbies. opt 2) Move the tall pantry cabinet up. Underneath the pantry cabinet, build in shoe cubbies. opt 3) move the freezer up to meet the bottom of the upper cabinets. Put she storage underneath freezer. You'll need to replace the counter with a smaller counter that will be over the washer and dryer only....See MoreNeed help for my utility room
Comments (1)I think you might have to have a carpenter build a cabinet around the washing machine for the dryer to be placed on. I don't think a shelf would be strong enough. There might be some photos on the Internet of such a shelf......See MoreKitchen/ utility layout - How best to access office?
Comments (2)Might be an expensive option but could you create a short (?glass) external corridor from the dining area into office by going outside the existing wall, ie come outside of the dining area and turn right into the office by putting a door where you have a window in the 1st plan. I don’t know how that would work with where your patio doors are. Maybe you could shift them to the right, have a short section of wall to the left of them and then a doorway (poss no door needed) between that and the corner of the dining/utility/office...See MoreOnePlan
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