Help with Laundry Location
Hi Houzzers!
Would love some help with thinking up some other laundry locations...
Our laundry will be on the lower level of our new house, which is on a steep sloping block. At the "back" of the house will be an underground garage, then a zone that has the laundry, workshop, storage, powder-room, bathroom and an entry. Due to it being at the rear of the "underground", the only natural light will be near the entry (just before the garage starts), and along the other far wall/boundary of the house.
What are some other ways we could layout this area? Ideally would prefer to have the laundry with the natural light, but having the workshop with close access to the outside is also helpful. I've come up with Options 1 and 2, but would like to consider some other possibilities.
Key: Blue is benches, Green & Pink are cupboards
Limitations:
> External/Main walls can't change
> Bathroom to have window (powder-room does not need natural light)
> Laundry to have a bench that is at least 3m long
> Laundry to have access from garage & house
> Workshop to only have access from garage
> Store for artwork (large paintings)
> WIR can change, but needs to stay WIR, not BIR
Thanks!!
Jen
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4 years agoSo this shows a bit more. Gym/sauna & Rumpus are at the bottom, then stairs to top floor. The other bedrooms/bathroom are down that T intersection corridor.
Preferably the store is accessed via the laundry.
Workshop is used for fixing/making things and storing hubby's 101 tool boxes! There is more garage storage upstairs.
Laundry is used for washing/drying and sorting of clothes and going through camping gear. I don't bother ironing :-P and sewing would be done elsewhere. Mudroom is upstairs.
Ventilation - I would have thought it would be OK to have extraction fans - like the bathrooms would have. I guess these would have an outlet to outside?
I'll take a look at those solar skylights...
I do like the laundry having a window, but I also like the simplicity of a square laundry...
Option 3 was an earlier layout, as I don't really like doors off main hallways - but felt it was better to have that short hallway space in the laundry to make that bigger, rather than outside of it...
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