I’m not talking small kitchens, either!Įven though the room was still a small laundry room, it functioned so much better and felt so much larger, by stacking the dryer. I could get used to this one…it’s as big as some kitchens. Okay, maybe you are one of the lucky ones with a huge laundry room, like this photo below. My feeling is you can never have enough storage in a small space. See how stacking the dryer on top of the washer, opened up all the space to the right of the washer? There was now room for a mudroom bench, with hooks for coats AND a lot of upper cabinet storage. Those upper cabinets provided A LOT of extra storage. Here I stored cleaning supplies, laundry supplies, and things like light bulbs and general things for the house, that might normally go on a shelf in a coat closet. I figured I had a built in stool with the bench too, so the placement height didn’t bother me at all. It also opened up the space visually, because the upper cabinets were not at eye level. Over the bench, we hung the 42” wall cabinets high, because I didn’t want anyone hitting their heads on them. ![]() This is where I was able to store extra blankets and things we didn’t use often. I knew that I needed additional storage, so I had a deep cabinet made for over the dryer. (We don’t wear them inside…it keeps the floors SO much cleaner!) It made sense to create a bench and a place to hang coats and put our shoes. Because our room was an entry and we had small children. You don’t want the dryer falling on anyone! Once you stack the washer and dryer, you have a better idea of the space and how it might function differently and more efficiently. Step one was to stack those babies! They make two brackets to attach the dryer to the washer-really simple. Especially with a doorway from the garage, and a doorway that led to the entryway. You can see here, that the space was small. The top of the dryer had become a landing zone and I was tired of trying to keep it organized, let alone we hardly had any storage space. I knew I could plan it out so much better than what the builder did. We lived with the front loaders placed side by side for four years, when I couldn’t take it any more. That’s a lot of stuff for one room to handle. In our last house, it was the entry from the garage, the coat closet (the house had none-crazy, right?), the laundry room and the cleaning supply closet. Small laundry room that works as a mudroom as well! We need to be enjoying our time in the Laundry room. They’re a space that is usually secondary when planning a home, but are one of the highest use spaces. This is why I have gotten so many requests for Laundry rooms and why I have spent so much time planning them. Did the builder think that clothes were not going to congregate in the hallway?! Actually, most didn’t think about it at all. Sometimes the laundry is even tucked away in the bathroom or stuck in a small hall closet. Nothing like climbing over clothes as you come in from the garage with no place to hang your coat. ![]() You know the challenge of a small laundry room. A lot of us have or have had small laundry rooms.
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