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[quote=Anonymous]We love having sleeping level laundry, but you don't want it in your master bath/closet.  First, there are occasions when you may need to do laundry when someone is sleeping (e.g. need a certain piece of clothing for tomorrow and you forgot to wash it during the day, or one of the parents wants to take a nap after a long hard morning and that's the day to do laundry, etc).  One thing they don't tell you is that laundry is louder when you have it on the sleeping level.  When it is in the basement, it is usually on a concrete slab or floor.  When it is on the 2nd level, it is on wood.  While the floor seems solid enough, it will still vibrate more than the concrete will.  Even the gentle, quiet cycle machines designed for upper levels will still be louder.  We never use high spin speed anymore because it sounds like a spaceship taking off.  Medium spin is tolerable, but is still a low hum.  In our case, the laundry is across the hall from the bedrooms and there is either a hallway or another room (the bathroom) between the laundry and any of the bedrooms.  That's what makes it okay to sleep with a laundry cycle running.  If it was next door or in the master bath/closet, then you would have to run it when no one was trying to sleep.

Also, if someone else, like a nanny may be doing some laundry, you want it outside your bedroom.  You don't want someone to need to use the master bath when someone else is doing laundry, e.g. in the summer, I mow the lawn or do yardwork and need to shower afterwards, and my wife may need to do a lot of kids laundry on the weekend...would be a pain to have to share the bathroom, even worse if it is someone other than the spouses.[/quote]

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