Ideal utility room

[morethanmama]

I am planning a house extension and am most excited about the utility. What are your must haves.....

Freezer
Washing machine
Dryer
Boot storage
Sink
General storage
Room to iron and use room as a proper laundry.

Endless storage for
picnic plates etc
cool box
dog food
shoe cleaning stuff
lots of cleaning products that promise miracles and never do
vases
candles
jam jars
clean cleaner

definitely sink
ideally boiler cupboard to air clothes

A door that shuts to hide the mess

Mine (if it ever gets built) will have my chest freezer in it too, for all that batch cooking I keep doing :)

I want mine to have
Washer
Dryer
Freezer
Big cupboard for the vacuum mops and bucket
Room to put up the clothes horse to dry stuff
Hooks for coats and a boot rack.
Easily cleanable floor.

Ours has:

welsh dresser (no room in kitchen for it)
dishwasher (ditto)
washing machine
freezer
microwave
sink with mouldy mop in it
tall cupboard for boots, coats, wetsuits, skateboards etc
drying airer rack pulley thingy
table for folding laundry
dog basket and bowls, leads, blankets etc
bookcase full of cookbooks
endless rubbish on the floor
endless bits of drills and attachments and machinery that never seem to get put away properly
chicken paraphernalia (straw, feeding supplements, poultry tonic etc)
shoes all over the floor and not put away in the BOOT CUPBOARD
shoe cleaning cupboard full of mice

We have: -
A practical tiled floor
Sink
Washing Machine
Tumble Dryer
Water Softener (hidden in a cupboard)
Main Indoor Waste Bin
Microwave
Coffee Maker
Toaster
Lots of wall/base units to hide the following gadgets until we utilise them
Bread maker
Slow cooker
Rice cooker
Waffle Maker
Food Processor
Kitchen scales
Tupperware
Cake making paraphernalia
Cat Food/Bowls
Cat Bed/Scratching Post

a big butler style sink with a good draining board - fantastic for hand washing, putting things to soak, filling buckets, washing cleaning stuff etc. Washing machine, tumble drier, tall cupboard for storing ironing board and airing rack, space to dry clothes, and lots of storage.

This is so helpful - keep them coming!! How big is your space?

Washing machine
tumble dryer
ironing board
clothes rack
mob
hoover
broom
cleaning products
Pet food/bowls
bread maker
Tupperware
dining linen
Christmas linen
Summer picnic stuff
cook books
cake tins

Ours is about the size of a boxroom. It houses:

Washing machine (we don't have a drier although it would fit).
Iron, ironing board.
Clothes horse/airer, whatever they're called.
Three recycling bags (paper, plastic, glass).
Christmas decs (two big plastic boxes plus three big
Christmas tins that once held panettone ), plus Christmas tree.
Shoes.
All cleaning products.
Mop and bucket.
Brush and dustpan.
Gas boiler.
Sink.
Two boxes of toys for DS that we have bought in the sales or have been given, that are a bit too old for him - that's birthday and Christmas 2014 sorted!
Big shelf unit stacked with ^^ and also.things like toolbox, cushions for outdoor chairs, picnic paraphernalia (for eating, we don't have table/chairs),
bulk purchases such as BOGOF bogg roll (haha!), 6 pack of milk where only two bricks are in the fridge.

You get my dift.

Oh, and boxes for things like cd player, modem, mobile phones; we keep them for about a year, with the receipt in a small baggy sellotaped to the side in case we have to take them back/repair them.

A laundry chute

Ideally an external door and gives onto the kitchen
Big sink
Space for large fridge freezer, washing machine and rumble dryer
Boiler so secondary heat can be used to dry the clothes on a Sheila maid
Extra kitchen cupboards for overflow food storage
Pet paraphernalia

This is not what I've got. I haven't got one at all. This is whst I used to have

Ours is teeny-tiny. Has a downstairs loo off it (also teeny-tiny) and a back door. So only about 150cm square space to actually use IYSWIM

Have tried to make the most of it and the washer and dryer on top of each other in the corner. Then a big 60 cm wide tall shelved cupboard for dog food, water softner, cleaning stuff, tool kit, drill, DC's arty stuff. Then a 30cm wide tall cupboard for mop/ironing board.

Iron sits on the window sill along with washing powder etc.

Along the wall leading to the back door some coat hooks and boot/shoe storage from Ikea. That no-one ever uses.

On the floor - the dog bed and bowls. And a teeny bin for washing tablet wrappers/tumble dryer fluff.

On the ceiling a sheila's maid airer.

It is teeny but I luffs it.

My utility room has loads of cupboards, tiled floor, sink, washing machine, dryer, clothes rack on the ceiling etc and the best thing about it is that it's upstairs. No need for taking baskets of clothes and bedding up and down stairs.

My favourite thing in my utility room is my Laundry Maid clothes airer (one on a pulley) - fantastic thing! You can dry so much on it and its out of the way.

A decent size sink is essential too (for paint trays, hand washing , cleaning football boots etc.

Other than that, what everyone else has said really.