To think the laundry room can be away from the kitchen!??

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As it says really we are building a house, currently in the design stage. And I am adamant that I want the laundry room next to the main bathroom ( on the bedroom side of the house) BUT everyone keeps making faces like I’m insane and saying it needs to be up near the kitchen!! WHY would I carry my laundry to the kitchen side of the house to just bring it back again!! Tell me I’m not crazy!! It makes complete sense to me to keep it separate! There would be a door on the laundry with access to the garden too!

YANBU next to the main bathroom definitely makes sense to me!

Ours is on a different level - next to the garage.

If you're going to have space to iron in there, it sounds a great idea.

Yes!!THANK YOU!!

Most of your laundry will come from bedrooms and bathroom - so no you are not BU - makes perfect sense. Only potential issue to be mindful of is the noise of a washing machine etc disturbing bedrooms - but if you design in good acoustic separation it will be fine!

YANBU. We are just about to spend a lot of money to move our laundry to next to the bedrooms. We had this in a previous house and it was fabulous. It's honestly a game changer!

Depends whether you’re someone who likes to strip off while cooking

We are currently splitting a bathroom in half to create an upstairs laundry room

Everyone we’ve mentioned it to has remarked it’s a good idea - why cart laundry downstairs just to take it all back up again!

And the former downstairs utility room has become my much-dreamed-of pantry

@mineofuselessinformation yes my plan is to have it a similar size to the bath room so I can iron, have a sliding wash basket that goes through the wall(so put clothes in it before shower/bath and when I do the washing I pull it through and empty it from the laundry room side!! And space for storage of cleaning products, car wash stuff, etc etc

Access to the garden is definitely good. Mine's in the basement, with room to leave an ironing board up all the time. I only use it about once a month, but it'd probably be once every two months if I had to get it out and put it away each time. But no need at all to have it near the kitchen. Much more use to have it near bedroom/bathroom because that's where clothes get discarded and where clean clothes are put away.

I dream of not having to carry laundry down then back up again. I would love a laundry room upstairs preferably with an outdoor balcony to put clothes outside to dry.

@FancyPantsMcGhee ooooh exciting!! The next person who poo poos my idea will have to see this thread!!

I currently have a main floor laundry- beside the kitchen but off of another hall if that makes sense but a bedroom floor laundry would be ideal.

I think it is a great idea, saves carting it up and down the stairs.

I think washing machines were originally in the kitchen of a house due to availability of plumbing etc and that seems to have stuck.

@ElloBrian 😂😂 can’t say I’ve done it yet but there’s a first time for everything 😝

Ours is the other side of the house. Why does it need to be near the kitchen, you don’t dress in the kitchen.

The house will be all one floor anyway so no upstairs.

I totally agree. We're renovating our house and our new en suite will be huge. I'm seriously thinking about moving the washing machine and dryer into a cupboard up there. The only con would be that there is an overhead drying rack in our boiler/cloakroom (where the washer currently is) that dries clothes superbly well and quickly.

If you are using a tumble dryer/hot cupboard to dry the clothes then by the bedrooms/bathrooms is ideal, but ventilation to prevent damp and mould essential. If you dry outdoors then not so sensible, as you’ll still be taking the laundry up and down stairs. Perhaps that why people don’t agree.

Sounds like an excellent idea to me. I can’t think of anything I do in our utility room (laundry wise) that would be inconvenienced by being upstairs.
Our utility is multipurpose (boot room, coat cupboard, downstairs toilet, as well as washing facility) so it wouldn’t work upstairs, but if we had room upstairs for the laundry side of things, that’d be great.

I agree with the previous comment about noisy though, make sure you factor in sound proofing

@TheFaerieQueene that’s what I said but everyone seems to be more concerned that I won’t be able to put a soggy wet tea towel straight into the washing machine 🤔🙄

my mum did this when we were kids. we lived in a tall London house (30 something stairs from kids bedrooms to kitchen in the basement. she moved the washing machine from the kitchen to the kids bathroom at the top and did the laundry there. it dried over the bath.

@FadedRed the house is one floor and the laundry would have access directly to the garden.

If I was ever building again I would definitely put a laundry room upstairs, close to the bedrooms and main bathroom.

I think the reason they're usually next to the kitchen is because it's cheaper as the plumbing pipes etc are already there and new ones don't have to be run to a different location, therefore costing more.

So personally if I were in your situation, I'd have it on the same floor as the family bathroom if there is space. Then you're saving money by using existing pipe work and it's closer to bedrooms etc. Agree though that you'd have to think about treating the room for noise.