Anonymous wrote:I’d rather have a laundry /mud / storage room off the kitchen or garage. That way you can put dirty athletic wear directly there before coming into the house and you can switch laundry while cooking or working in the kitchen. Most useful room in the house.

Yeah but you need serious land to make that a good use of space. For your average really big fancy house in Chevy Chase, it's unlikely to be a great use of space on the main floor. Maybe! Depends on the house. But in a lot of cases it might make sense to use a space near the basement entrance.

First world problem.

I’d rather have a laundry /mud / storage room off the kitchen or garage. That way you can put dirty athletic wear directly there before coming into the house and you can switch laundry while cooking or working in the kitchen. Most useful room in the house.

Who would regret more washers/dryers?! I wish we had put laundry on both levels but agree with Pps that going up two levels with laundry will get old quick.

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Anonymous wrote: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

"modest" you have a 4000sq/f house...

And about 1/2 the size of the new build OP is talking about. Also, “modest” doesn’t mean “small”

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Anonymous wrote:God, I hate rich people.

+1. But I still think this is a troll (80% odds) or supremely ignorant rich person (20% odds)

Oh, leave her alone and don’t comment if you don’t like it. If she can afford it, it’s her money.
OP, FWIW we have three kids and yes, they create a lot of laundry. I have a super capacity washer that does a great job and it doesn’t take all day. That, combined with the upstairs w/d set might be fine if you’re already thinking about resale. That’s a long way down the road, though.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

"modest" you have a 4000sq/f house...

Modest by Texas standards is different from DMV standards.

4,000sqft outside of Dallas will cost you $500K. 4,000sqft outside of D.C. will cost you $2.5 million.

A house that costs 500k outside Dallas is still not modest.

Are you also the one who is mad your friends who only make $150k get the child care credit?

Who needs a giant counter or dedicated room for folding? I am assuming the housekeeper is pretty good at this using whatever set up available.

I'd certainly make sure that it's not a hallway closet, but a small dedicated room. Upstairs.

Anonymous wrote:God, I hate rich people.

+1. But I still think this is a troll (80% odds) or supremely ignorant rich person (20% odds)

Op, we have a 7000 sqft house and have a nice size laundry room in the second floor.

I’m not trying to be snarky (we clearly have a large home), but why can’t you fit a good sized laundry room on your second floor? If you really can’t, perhaps put it on your main floor off of the mud room? I would not want one in the basement - in a large house it’s such a pain to carry laundry up and down the stairs.

I do wish sometimes I had 2 dryers, as that is the machine that slows me down when trying to do tbe weekly laundry, but I don’t see myself ever getting more than one - you just time the tasks between folding.

God, I hate rich people.

The basement laundry room is also useful staging space for parties. If you’re going to have a utility space down there I think having a washer dryer in it makes a lot of sense.

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Anonymous wrote: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

"modest" you have a 4000sq/f house...

Modest by Texas standards is different from DMV standards.

4,000sqft outside of Dallas will cost you $500K. 4,000sqft outside of D.C. will cost you $2.5 million.

Anonymous wrote: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

"modest" you have a 4000sq/f house...