The Ugliest Room in The American Home
American Homes get nicer and more upscale every year. The amenities get nicer and what we expect in a home gets higher and higher.
Years ago tile counter tops would have been thought a real treat over Formica; these days it better be granite. Not to mention the walk in pantries and incredible amount of cabinet space.
The Master Bathroom has become a piece of art – sometimes rivaling the size of the Master Bedroom and having more space than entire multi-generational families might live in in a 3rd world country. And yes we all want one.
But there is one room that has been almost completely ignored – this room has not gotten it's due. Why? Because it is a room that they very name makes people want to run and avoid it – Yes – the Laundry Room!
Now this room has seen some improvements in the last few years – The return of the sink (this is not something new) and some more cabinet space. Many love them upstairs where the bedrooms tend to be, but really it is still under represented in the new home.
When I was a kid our Laundry room was in the basement (and I know many are in the garage) and there was plenty of room – We also had 3 bedrooms and a garage in the basement. Then we moved.
The new home had an addition put on at some point of a large kitchen and a family room. (We had never heard of a family room before this.) The old kitchen had been turned into a Laundry Room; the house still had a nice flow and the set up did not seem awkward.
This was a small kitchen, but a huge Laundry Room. It had a sink and plenty of cabinets, storage, and counter space. There was room for a table to fold laundry on.
Now even in the nicest of homes today the Laundry Room is rarely big enough to actually put a table in for folding. Now we have a family with 6 boys so there is a lot of Laundry. But even in smaller families I suspect we have the same problems. We have clean Laundry in baskets spilling out into the family room – waiting to be folded and put away – but more realistically pulled out of the basket and worn. There is no room to maneuver in the Laundry Room.
In the ideal Home I think the Laundry Room should be off the kitchen and the garage (not just a walk through to the garage) – although I can understand having it upstairs too. It should be large enough for the Washer, Dryer, a Sink, Plenty of Cabinets, Perhaps a Closet, Room for a folding table, Plenty of room for laundry hampers, and plenty of room for a shelf to put baskets of clean laundry.
But let's go further – think of the room as a place to put household supplies, vacuum cleaners and such, a space for the the litter box. In our dream it doubles as a mud room where kids can take off dirty shoes with maybe a small bathroom and shower for the the dirty kid after football, hunting trip or fishing.
Think how nice the rest of the house would look without those other things overflowing into the Family Room, Living Room and Kitchen. It may not be the sexist room in the house – but it is a dependable room – an important room – one that if used right would make the entire house look better.
It is time to give the Laundry Room it's Due!
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