To have just realised the dream of practical with laundry

[suddenlypanicked]

Right

Bare with me.
In an imaginary very spacious home

AIBU to think a laundry room upstairs would be a brilliant idea?
So washing machine sink bla bla tumble dryer all upstairs in its own room?

Because then there would be no stairs up and down up and down with all the laundry? It would just stay upstairs?

And also I have now decided to dry my laundry all in the guest room when it's not in the tumble dryer to save me having it sprawled through the living room or hall and also not stacked in baskets in the kitchen.

Aibu to think this is a marvellous idea?

It is good but do you never want to dry washing outside? It smells so nice.

My DS when young once put forward the idea that each person in a family should have a small washer dryer in their own bedroom, concealed in a wardrobe. Then their washing would never leave the room and things would not get lost amongst family washing.

My aunt did this. It changed her life. On days where she wanted to hang it outside, she did.

Mosaic love it!!
Except my husband never even puts his pants away

Yes I dry laundry outside in the summer and spring but haven't since probably September or even late August this year
For six months of the year it dries inside

Unless you like to dry your laundry outside in the fresh air, and never use tea towels or hand towels downstairs, or throws in the living room that need a wash.

You would also need to not have washing machine that bounces around on any floor that is not concrete and shakes the house like the Samsung Eco bloody bubble shit things.

My fantasy house has an upstairs laundry room. I saw one once on Escape to the Country and it looked fabulous.

Yep. I used my dressing room in previous house to dry laundry.
Moving soon and it’ll be in the garage. Unless it’s too cold/damp and then it’ll be in spare room

Isnt that why most europeans have their washing machines in their bathrooms, us in the UK having them in the kitchen makes little sense.
A laundry room, where all my clothes could get washed, dried and ironed is the dream (I would forgo the big closet and island in the kitchen ideals to have that).

Some friends have a laundry chute from their bathroom to the laundry room.

I also realised this a while ago! We have an old house and the washer/dryer is in the cellar. Really impractical with a baby.

I decided if we moved somewhere with extra bedrooms then one would be given over to laundry/drying/storing towels/bedding etc.

But what about the ironing? I iron downstairs whilst watching a movie!

Some friends have a laundry chute from their bathroom to the laundry room

We have one of those, from the landing.

AKA The Stairs

Well that’s only half of the plan, you need an upstairs laundry room which is in the centre of the floor plan, each bedroom shares a wall with the laundry room ie. on the other side. Each wall has a Shute so that when in the bedroom you bung your dirty clothes in the Shute and they land in the laundry room. Each room also has a wardrobe that opens into the laundry room so when the clothes are clean and dry they are pur directly into the wardrobe from the laundry room. Yes I’ve been dreaming of this for years.

I have a laundry cupboard upstairs, washing machine with dryer stacked on top, it's fantastic, I highly recommend it! Got the idea from a friend who said it was life changing!

My in-laws have a house in the States and they have an upstairs laundry room that you can access off the landing or through their dressing room - it's brilliantly practical

my dream house (an actual house for sale near me) has a utility room with a walk in drying cupboard attached to it!

ChangoMutney - you've really given this some thought!!

Live in a flat or a bungalow!

I suppose in fantasy land, you'd also have a large balcony off one of the upstairs rooms where as well as being able to sit out on, you could also have an airer or washing line, so you could easily dry outside when the weather is suitable.

I think in Scandinavian countries, where it tends to be even colder/wetter/darker than here for a lot of the time, they usually have their washing machine in the bathroom, but their average bathroom much be much larger than the UK, which often barely has room for bath, sink and toilet.

I've had a laundry chute put in, and the receiving box is on wheels so I can just push it over to the washing machine. Unfortunately, due to the way the house is designed, I couldn't have what I originally wanted, which was a laundry chute in each bedroom going straight down into the utility room where the washing machine is. Instead, we've got a communal laundry chute in the upstairs hallway they goes down to the downstairs hallway, and I then have to wheel the laundry box down the hallway to the utility room. Still better than traipsing up and down stairs though!

Not sure it should be made even easier to use a tumble drier compared to drying outside when the weather is good though.

I've read that some people use a drier all the time, which is utter madness. They ruin your clothes and there's also the environmental cost.

My preferred drying order is outside line > airer in utility or spare room > dryer, and most of my clothes never go in the drier at all, because I'm sick of them shrinking or coming out creased as hell.

My last rental had an upstairs kitchen next to a small single bedroom that we used as a walk-in wardrobe. The washing machine and tumble dryer were even right next to that door.

Laundry literally took 15m max (admittedly not including ironing).

Chuck a load in from basket to washer. 2m.
Move load to dryer. 1m.
Sort laundry and return to wardrobe folded. 10-12m.

It was glorious. Now, tragically, it's:

Take load from bedroom to kitchen. 2m.
Move load from kitchen to dryer in shed at the bottom of the garden. 5m.
Return load to wardrobe bedroom and sort. 4 weeks and counting.

(didn't manage to sort previous piles before wedding/honeymoon, just accumulated load after load of clean clothes in one gigantic amorphus pile)

*That, not they

@ChangoMutney you'd also need a person employed full time in the laundry room!

My washing machine and tumble drier are in my bathroom :) I feel so smug!

Dirty washing goes from bedroom to bathroom hamper to washer all in one room. Then either goes in the tumble drier or in the spare room on airers (no outside space).