Need laundry advice!
Hi,
We are renovating our small laundry. It's 1.6x2.0m, under the stairs so a sloping roof in parts, with a door to the toilet.
Currently it has both a laundry trough and a hand basin for the toilet.
We want to put a tall cupboard on the back, with a bench over the top of the washing maching and a drop in laundry trough. Thinking high gloss white cupboards with a grey-ish bench top (and possibly some new lighting!). We want to re-tile and re pain while we are at it.
My main question is, what do I do with this hand basin? Leave it? Replace it? Remove it completely? Given that access to the downstairs toilet is through the laundry I would like something that looks nice and neat (I had considered elfa shelving. But I would rather hide things in a cupboard!)
Sorry about the poor photos - I struggled in the small room!
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10 years agoi nyssa57, could you have a set of bifold doors in front of the laundry section plus add the bench over the washing machine & do a drop in tub?
This will allow you to add shelving such as the Elfa system but behind doors that fold back to the wall.
Extreme Makeover · More InfoThe vanity seems to be in good condition so maybe you could just add to it with some tall matching timber or grey open shelves & dress it up with nice decor items & low maintenance plants like succulents that don't mind indoors.
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Comments (4)what style of door do you have and what's the width of the door and distance from each corner to the side of the door opening? a new laundry sink and cabinet can be purchased from most Hardware or plumbing supply stores but you'll need a plumber to replace the sink but should first have the existing plumbing checked to help decide the best size and position for the sink ....it's also possible to have the washing machine taps moved to under the sink for a more streamlined look and a skinny tub that's only about 350 wide in a steel cabinet would allow some leftover space for a free standing bookshelf style shelving unit or have custom made cabinet to create a counter with a drop in skinny sink with fitted shelves to suit what you need to store..but, when changing any wet room you'll also need to consider taps, waterproofing, tiles, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, flooring and painting and it can be challenging trying to organise all the separate trades so a builder or specialist kitchen and bathroom company would be able to arrange all the work and supply the sink and cabinetry and if you're considering work on your bathroom and kitchen it might be worthwhile to negotiate a price for all the work even if it's to be done in stages......See MoreFloorplan advice needed, where to put laundry
Comments (14)I was just thinking of making more of a substantial open living space, in terms of the extra floor space to the east, as I can see it being the part of the house that we would be in all the time. In terms of the north side, we are on a corner block and so there is a 4 metre setback on that side, which we are already at. I don't know much about these things, but I assume that wouldn't be able to be changed. I am planning a nice garden on that side of the house anyway, which I am excited about, and we like to have the space all around the house (i.e. no fences close to any of our windows, giving the feeling of privacy and space in a modest suburban block). The other thing I think of a lot is regarding passive solar design principles, and having our house oriented the way it is (West facing), I am reluctant to do anything too major unless we can really capitalise on this. Having the bedrooms on the northern side does work really well for us at the moment, as we use them a lot - with small children napping and my husbands office being on that side. Although that will change when the kids grow up... I'm hoping we can at least add some skylights or something like that into the extension area/kitchen in order to bring in more light. Our kitchen is quite dark and cold in winter....See MoreLaundry/bathroom layout and reno advice please
Comments (19)@AAB That Ikea one looks like it has good dimensions from above, but I think you'd find 20cm too shallow to double as a useful laundry tub. If you could find one that was twice that depth… I did encounter such a sink in a long-stay apartment hotel I stayed in recently. The bathroom was fitted out with a combined washer-dryer unit and the "basin" – while styled aesthetically like a bathroom basin and oval in shape as well as rounded in cross-section – was really big. You could have washed a large baby in it! So clearly that kind of thing is available. It did require a fairly deep vanity to mount it in, but that was there to accommodate the depth of the washer-dryer anyway. The only thing with a deep vanity is you absolutely need to mount the mirror on a cabinet to bring it forward, not directly on the wall. If you don't do that anyone who is short and/or short-sighted has a hard time using the mirror for practical purposes such as shaving, inserting contact lenses, or applying makeup. (Yes, I discovered this during my hotel stay too!)...See Moreseeking advice on layout /storage for kitchen / dining / laundry reno
Comments (25)always about compromise and if the laundry window is reinstated in the original location that restricts options for tall storage so i've included a skinny sink next to the window, a stacked washer and dryer and left the rest of the space open to use for overhead cabinets and/or shelves, tall space under wall cabinets for broom, ironing board, vacuum, baskets etc and hooks on the window wall for work clothes and dog leads...any custom built cabinets would be cramped and very expensive so use the open floor space for storage without doors...the location of the back door opening and doorways from hallway and front entry would also make it too cramped for the narrow cabinet that you wanted unless you make the laundry and powder room too small for the cavity sliding doors so, with so much extra kitchen cabinets for pantry storage (eg between fridge and stove or island drawers?) why not use the central cabinet for your mini office and keep the original wall between entry and living would save demolition and could allow a location for your sideboard.. striped wall sections show dog gates without doors and under a sofa table would make a great nook for the dog beds...See More
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10 years agolast modified: 10 years agoLike j9rob, we installed a ceramic Butler's type sink (I think ours was described as a Belfast sink) for our laundry trough and used it as a hand basin too. Big space saver, we even bathed our newborn daughter in it until about 10 weeks old. Our laundry was about 1.5x2.0m in size. We also used excess porcelain floor tiles from our kitchen renovation for the splashback to save a few dollars.
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Very belated update:
We moved the washing machine from the back wall to the side wall (beside the basin in the original pics). We went with one large sink - small for a laundry tub but it did the job (I think I could soak one queen size sheet in it.) If I ever wanted to soak anything larger I would get a big plastic tub and do that.
Cat litter went in cabinet under sink, we put a cat flap in the door, and we purchased a spare door that we put on when we sold the house.
New floor, new paint, new cabinets. Very pleased with the results. See the link for the full details.
View from doorway:
Heres the before and after of the toilet. Although I know that floors and paint makes all the difference, its one thing to know it and another to see it (for me, anyway).
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