Laundry room upstairs

[shanghaismog]

How would you feel about a laundry room upstairs? Not encroaching on bedroom space and would have a smallish utility downstairs off the kitchen. V common in the US. I can't decide whether it would be a real luxury to never have to drag laundry baskets around the house, or just plain weird.

[MillyMollyMama]

We had a friend who bought a house with a laundry upstairs. It took up a whole bedroom though so ridiculous to keep it as they had a large utility downstairs as well.

If the room is unusable as a bedroom I would consider it as a laundry, but I would also consider converting it to storage for bedding and clothes especially as you have a utility downstairs. My laundry is downstairs and has a clothes rail, large sink, work tops, stacked dryer/washing machine and if this was not in there, I am not sure what would be in the utility apart from the vacuum cleaner and a few cleaning items, floor mops and brooms. I would definitely have the utility kitted out as a laundry and free up storage upstairs.

[Eastpoint]

We moved our washer & drier to the top floor in the autumn & I love it up there. Close to the DCs rooms & where we keep their bedding & has given us more space on the ground floor. We live in London & our house's footprint is restricted.

[specialsubject]

this came up recently, didn't it?

no reason not to do it. Remember that in the US where power is cheap enough to waste, tumble driers can be used without thinking. If you have outside drying space you will still be lugging wet washing downstairs to dry it.

[snowgirl1]

I think someone mentioned the noise the last time this came up - if you do your wash at night to utilise cheap electricity, you'll have the noise of the spin cycle near your bedrooms.

[Gemma77]

I would much prefer a laundry room upstairs!! We have no space for one but are lucky enough to have a separate utility room... but we do have to bring all the washing downstairs to then take it all back upstairs again...

[shanghaismog]

Yes, it's the noise issue that is the main concern really. The utility room downstairs doesn't really look big enough to have baskets of laundry kicking around (which is the reality of my utility rooms...) but it's all just from plans at the mo so hard to tell.

[RuddyDuck]

If you have a utility room already downstairs then could you use the upstairs room for an en suite or extra bathroom? I can't see a huge advantage (in fact, several disadvantages) of having a laundry room upstairs.

[truelymadlysleepy]

But surely if you hang washing out in the garden you'd want to be near the back door? If you don't, I'd think upstairs is fine.