What clever or useful features in new laundry room?

[Anonymous]

Drying cabinet to hang delicates with stacked drawers for items the must lay flat to dry.

[Anonymous]

So jelly!

All of these features posted sound nicer than any room in my entire house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The rotary iron above is $2000! How many tablecloths does anyone iron in a year to warrant this item?

You use it for sheets! Martha Stewart has one.

I want one, but I also want the maid that presumably you can also afford when you have one of these

Also called a mangle. Think these used to be fairly common. My grandmother had one in her basement!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rotary iron above is $2000! How many tablecloths does anyone iron in a year to warrant this item?

You use it for sheets! Martha Stewart has one.

I want one, but I also want the maid that presumably you can also afford when you have one of these

Also called a mangle. Think these used to be fairly common. My grandmother had one in her basement!

DP. The one my grandmothers had were not for pressing linens but to wring water out from laundry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you already have a central vac system, consider adding a "Spot" outlet in your mudroom/laundry room. We use it a lot more than I thought we would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpHL6s9mUoM

Not OP. OMG! This looks amazing! I've got a central vac and would love to have this in the bathroom and laundry room! I watched the video and thought the placement was too high on the wall. I think I'd rather have it lower. How much did it cost for you to have it installed?

[Anonymous]

I'd have a dog washing station installed that would double as a utility sink. I'd also have a floor drain installed.

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Anonymous wrote:The rotary iron above is $2000! How many tablecloths does anyone iron in a year to warrant this item?

You use it for sheets! Martha Stewart has one.

Martha Stewart also went to jail.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd have a dog washing station installed that would double as a utility sink. I'd also have a floor drain installed.

I have a dog washing station, and it’s awesome.

http://www.flyingpiggrooming.com/

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Anonymous wrote:If you already have a central vac system, consider adding a "Spot" outlet in your mudroom/laundry room. We use it a lot more than I thought we would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpHL6s9mUoM

Not OP. OMG! This looks amazing! I've got a central vac and would love to have this in the bathroom and laundry room! I watched the video and thought the placement was too high on the wall. I think I'd rather have it lower. How much did it cost for you to have it installed?

I think DH said the part itself was about $100 but install might have cost $300 total for labor? I think if we built again I would have it put in my bathroom too. Instead of traditional central vac inlets, we have the "hide a hose" version and those are placed lower to the floor on the main level but about that high on the upstairs level because you are pulling the hose down out of the opening from the tube in the attic. Not sure if that makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you already have a central vac system, consider adding a "Spot" outlet in your mudroom/laundry room. We use it a lot more than I thought we would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpHL6s9mUoM

Not OP. OMG! This looks amazing! I've got a central vac and would love to have this in the bathroom and laundry room! I watched the video and thought the placement was too high on the wall. I think I'd rather have it lower. How much did it cost for you to have it installed?

I think DH said the part itself was about $100 but install might have cost $300 total for labor? I think if we built again I would have it put in my bathroom too. Instead of traditional central vac inlets, we have the "hide a hose" version and those are placed lower to the floor on the main level but about that high on the upstairs level because you are pulling the hose down out of the opening from the tube in the attic. Not sure if that makes sense.

Thanks! It makes sense.

[Anonymous]

This is OP, thanks for all the suggestions! I'll definitely plan for fold-down hooks and drying racks, a hanging bar over the small sink, and also a fold down table for clean clothes (fold-down because 70 square feet is not as big as you might think). I'm also thinking about a closet for storing linens and and a vacuum. The dry-flat drawers sound awesome but I'll have to see if we have room.

I should have specified that this is an upstairs laundry room. Those with upstairs laundry, do you keep hampers in the laundry room? I thought we'd keep them in the bedrooms as we do now.

On the topic of pedestals, I am torn because I would love the dryer door to be raised for easier access, but I've heard so many bad things about front-load washers. I am thinking about keeping my top-load washer, which means no pedestal. If anybody's seen an arrangement with only the dryer on a pedestal, without the washer looking stupid, please let me know!

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