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?

So jealous of the people who have this facility

It sounds so great doesn't it

Of course in a really luxury world there would be lifts etc
But a nice laundry room upstairs would be great.
We have so much laundry and I have such a bad back that if I didn't carry it down then up then down again would be marvellous

Now to work hard and try to make this a reality

I would also like a sitting room upstairs with books and a fire place in 🤫🤫🤫

Mosaic that would be so good! Size 1 school socks seem to disappear into the sock portal.

Now you mention it, don’t lots of American houses have the washing lines that extend from the upstairs windows?

DH once left a pair of his own size 7 grey socks, that he'd put there, on the radiator for weeks because he thought they were DS2's.

My sister is building a house from scratch and the architect auggested that i think is brilliant !

YES OP!!!! I had this brainwave a couple years ago & made it happen..... Ours is now upstairs - we live in a large townhouse and converted the middle floor’s “office” into a full laundry facility including a butler sink for hand washing, cabinets for storing linens and a vented tumble dryer. Hot water pipes run under it so it’s warm for air drying on the large rack and it backs onto the family bathroom so water was right there so the plumbing was easy. It just made so much sense for us. If we want to dry outside when it’s nice, we still can. Old way was slogging all clothes up and down all the stairs to the kitchen which made no sense. Now I have a massive pull out bin where the washer used to be! It has worked out great and SO efficient - it’s no longer a chore but a pleasure!!

We are about to do our bedroom, ensuite and dressing room. At the moment the dressing room is a small box room bedroom which will never be needed for a bedroom.

The dressing room design already has a fold down ironing board in it. I'm now wondering about putting the washing machine and tumble dryer in it too.

My washer and drier are in the (integral) garage. We have a bathroom on the ground floor as well as upstairs, so I'm happy with having the laundry area where it is, as we'd have to walk up or downstairs with washing regardless! My spare bedroom is a guest room - cum - dressing room. Handwash and non-TD items get dried on the clothes horse in there, in front of a big radiator. It rains a lot where I live, so in practical terms drying laundry outside is only possible for 6 months of the year. I have a big Brabantia airer though, which is brilliant as I can get two full loads out on it.

Having come from our last place, which was tiny, didn't have radiators, had no outside space and where we only had room for a combi washer-dryer, it's so lovely to have the space! It's amazing how much quicker and more efficient standalone tumble driers are; what used to take me 3 hours in my old machine, is now dry in 40 mins.

robots that can sort out washing colours into washing machine & dryer, or put on clothes line when weather is good iron & sort out into who it belongs to & put away

I've thought about this too - the ideal is, bedroom -> dressing room -> bathroom (with hallway to bypass dressing room)

Between the dressing room (with the washer/dryer) you have a cupboard that has doors into both the dressing room, and the bathroom, so that dirty clothes can go in a laundry basket, accessed each side, and towels/clothes can go on shelves above, similarly accessed both sides - at least for us - our dirty clothes accumulate in the shower room, and clean ones accumulate in the spare room where we do the drying, so having the laundry room in between, with easy access from both would be perfect.

We used to have ours upstairs in our old house. It was really much easier. Even if drying outside it was only for a few months a year this happened.

I always thought this too - next to bathroom small room with washer and dryer and window to outside and down the garden. Extra long properly fixed pole at bottom of garden and any hanging out side can be done on an old fashioned pull me push me line. The upping and downing seems all so unecessary.

Make sure your spare room has good air circulation though as damp may become an issue

Family in America have their laundry room upstairs I s bloody brilliant. They tumble everything.

We're still drying our washing outside on dry days, I had the bedsheets out yesterday. Too wet today but there are enough dry days still for it to work. I might have to dry indoors in February when it gets really cold, but it's good to stay outdoors most of the year.

I so want this. I started a thread as well a while ago.

Ideally an upstairs laundry room that has a balcony to dry dry clothes when it's dry outside. Said room would have a washing machine, tumble dryer, ironing board, clothes rails and plenty of storage and of course a tv!!

Surely the actual answer is to have a chute that goes to the laundry next door where they wash, dry and iron your clothes and return them to you.

Fink sadly not here! I haven't had a completely dry day for ages - and sod's law means that they usually happen when I am away for work!!

We have converted a large cupboard in my house upstairs into a laundry room complete with washing machine. Permanently in situ clothes hanger and a mega dehumidifier to dry them super fast. Was over the moon when we moved in and realised it had the appropriate plumbing already.

its a but tight to squeeze into the cupboard to hang it up but its so easy being all upstairs and you just shut the door and cant see any mess!

We had a new boiler put in earlier in the year, it doesn't need a water tank. So, the old airing cupboard upstairs now houses washing machine and tumble dryer. It's amazing! It helped that the kitchen and dining room were being done at the same time!

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I'm so jealous that sounds brilliant
That's exactly what I am thinking to do
We do sort of have space to do it especially if we convert the garage and lift up a level as we have been thinking of doing

It would be so helpful wouldn't it

Also my house is really well ventilated and warm thankfully so I don't need to worry about damp

I'm planning on having both when we finally extend this shithole

I want floordrobe sorter outer. A device that can identify what clothes left on the floor are clean and which ones are dirty. I'm looking at you DS and DH

I have an upstairs laundry room! It was one of the key reasons we bought this house 😂 It’s honestly wonderful. All the laundry contained in one room with clothes going along the landing from the bedroom and dressing room and straight into the machine. Life changing. And frees up space elsewhere in the house.

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.

We have a very small bathroom (UK sized really), no bath, but it has a washing machine connection etc. The washing machine and dryer are stacked right there in the corner.

It's upstairs so we have the situation the OP suggested. It can sometimes be lovely drying weather in summer, we don't have a garden but when it happens I put the washing out on the little balcony downstairs.

Where the system falls down is that there's one bedroom downstairs too, so we have clothes going up and down the stairs regardless Oh and then there's the ironing

Actual, rather than stealth, boast: I too have an upstairs laundry room, put in this year while doing a big renovation.
It’s great. Washing machine, tumble, sink (a ‘laundry’ sink with scrubbing section), cupboards for the wash tablets etc, on the ceiling I have one of those Sheila maid pulley airers. Tumble is plumbed in so doesn’t need water emptying (condenser). Has an extractor fan too.
We have an anti vibration mat under washing machine, plus we went for a super quiet model. Often put it on at night with no problems.
It’s great as the kids (4 and under) love to put their washing straight in the basket next to the machine so it saves a lot of time carrying stuff up and down stairs.
We tumble everything that can be tumbled and anything that can’t goes on the ceiling airer.
I will finish my boast by saying it attracts many admiring comments from visitors 😂