Tips on Where to Place the Laundry Center

There’s no perfect spot to locate a laundry. The best location depends on a family’s lifestyle and the available space.

The following tips from Home Plan Ideas magazine will help home builders think carefully about their floor plan and locate the laundry where it will be easiest to use.

One of the most popular locations for a laundry center is the kitchen. There are several advantages to this site. By concentrating labor-intensive tasks in one area, time, steps and energy are saved. This is an especially important consideration for homemakers with limited mobility or for those who work outside the home.

Locating the laundry in the kitchen lets one double up on the use of plumbing lines, reducing installation costs. The kitchen sink can be used for soaking clothes and countertops can serve as a folding table.

In warm climates, it makes sense to locate the laundry center with its added heat and humidity outside the main living areas in a garage or carport. To control installation costs, position appliances on the outside of a wall that hides plumbing lines.

For those who enjoy watching television or sharing family conversation while doing the laundry, a laundry center near the family room may be ideal. If there’s a bar sink in the family room, it can serve as a laundry sink.

Appliances can be noisy, so it may be best to locate them adjacent to the family room rather than in it. However, if space limitations demand appliances be installed in the room, folding or sliding doors will minimize the noise level and screen the laundry center from view.

Installing a laundry in the bathroom area makes sense. This is where most dirty laundry accumulates and where the clean clothes are returned.