Second laundry room for housekeeper?

[Anonymous]

We’re building a custom home and considering having a large basement laundry room with multiple washers and dryers for our housekeeper (who comes for 5 hours daily and is excellent with laundry and ironing) to use, as well as a small second floor laundry room for us to use for quick or last minute washes.

But I’m not sure if this is more trouble than it’s worth - she’d have that lug the laundry up and down the stairs, it might get confusing to keep cleaning supplies in two places, etc. On the other hand it would be great to have a huge island for folding and more space for ironing, without using up precious second floor space.

Would you do this? Or would you stick with one laundry room on the second floor? The house will be between 6-7K square feet.

[Anonymous]

One laundry room is fine.

[Anonymous]

One large one in the basement. Skip the second one

[Anonymous]

If she's cleaning your house for 5 hours, I assume you have at least 3 levels (first and second plus basement).

I'd put a stackable on the main level in the master closet and 1 or more full-sized sets on the second floor near bedrooms.

Basement is a no.

[Anonymous]

I think it sounds insane to plan for 3+ washers and dryers in a 7k ft house. Are you running a hostel? Does every piece of fabric in the house need to be washed every 24 hours?

I suspect that you actually just want one w/d in the basement for the housekeeper to use with the intent of keeping her out of sight as much as possible, but you realize how that makes you sound, so you invented this need for a separate additional laundromat in your basement as a personal treat to her.

[Anonymous]

Is this for real? A 7k sq ft foot with multiple laundry rooms and multiple washers and dryers? This is the 1/10th of 1 percent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it sounds insane to plan for 3+ washers and dryers in a 7k ft house. Are you running a hostel? Does every piece of fabric in the house need to be washed every 24 hours?

I suspect that you actually just want one w/d in the basement for the housekeeper to use with the intent of keeping her out of sight as much as possible, but you realize how that makes you sound, so you invented this need for a separate additional laundromat in your basement as a personal treat to her.

Lots of people with large families have 2 sets of washers and 2 sets of dryers. No one I know with an expensive custom house however voluntarily puts their main laundry in the basement.

[Anonymous]

I think it sounds reasonable - but I would add a dumbwaiter or elevator to go up and down. Even without a housekeeper - having a large laundry room downstairs to get things done quickly sounds great to me.

[Anonymous]

I can’t even with this post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it sounds insane to plan for 3+ washers and dryers in a 7k ft house. Are you running a hostel? Does every piece of fabric in the house need to be washed every 24 hours?

I suspect that you actually just want one w/d in the basement for the housekeeper to use with the intent of keeping her out of sight as much as possible, but you realize how that makes you sound, so you invented this need for a separate additional laundromat in your basement as a personal treat to her.

Lots of people with large families have 2 sets of washers and 2 sets of dryers. No one I know with an expensive custom house however voluntarily puts their main laundry in the basement.

OP is not asking about two sets of washers and two sets of dryers. She's asking about one on the second level and 2+ on the basement level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it sounds reasonable - but I would add a dumbwaiter or elevator to go up and down. Even without a housekeeper - having a large laundry room downstairs to get things done quickly sounds great to me.

DP. The only way this is acceptable is if you have a full-house elevator near the basement laundry room that the housekeeper can freely use.

[Anonymous]

Two laundry rooms is actually great, and not uncommon in big houses (and not necessarily “for the housekeeper”), but I don’t think you need more than one set in the basement unless you have 6 kids or something. The basement set should have a big sink and a folding surface and it can also be a good place for flower arranging stuff (vases, etc and a counter space next to the sink).

When you’re building the house, it’s not that expensive to put them in the basement and better to do it at the time if you have space. Makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it sounds insane to plan for 3+ washers and dryers in a 7k ft house. Are you running a hostel? Does every piece of fabric in the house need to be washed every 24 hours?

I suspect that you actually just want one w/d in the basement for the housekeeper to use with the intent of keeping her out of sight as much as possible, but you realize how that makes you sound, so you invented this need for a separate additional laundromat in your basement as a personal treat to her.

Lots of people with large families have 2 sets of washers and 2 sets of dryers. No one I know with an expensive custom house however voluntarily puts their main laundry in the basement.

OP here.

Yeah this is why I feel like there should still be a bedroom level laundry room - I don’t want to do anything too weird for potential resale reasons. Plus I can imagine not having a housekeeper when we’re empty nesters, at which point I’d likely want the laundry room on the second floor near the bedrooms.

We have three young kids by the way, so yeah, there’s a lot of laundry.

Also maybe the basement laundry could double as a craft room / gift wrapping room / storage.

[Anonymous]

In our modest 4000 sqft home, we have 2 laundry rooms, each with one washer & dryer, one set on the main level and one set on the second level. I haven’t been to the basement level for laundry since my grandmas house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t even with this post.

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