Laundry Your Way: 11 Tips to an Elevated Laundry Experience

For some, inner peace is just a load of laundry away. For others, there is nothing they look forward to less. Whether doing laundry is your happy place or something you wish to go as fast as possible, there are a few features you can incorporate when designing your laundry room to optimize it for looks and function. So, if you’ve got an area dedicated to the washing, fluffing, and folding, here are 11 tips for elevating that experience.

1. Tailor the Area with Tall Cabinets

Big and small laundry rooms necessitate similar amounts of storage but can shelter laundry necessities to different degrees. Our custom-fit tall cabinets can be adapted to serve big or small laundry rooms to carry all those bulky laundry essentials, such as your ironing tools or even extra linens. Including a tall cabinet in your laundry room design plan can actually save you space and clutter, and can add a finished and intentional look to your room.

2. Extend Counter Space

No more laundry piles around your house, sitting next to you while you kick back. It doesn’t matter if laundry is your favorite or least favorite chore – it’s still a chore, and it’s best kept partitioned from your downtime. That’s what extended counter space can help with – a spot for you to take care of your tasks separate from where you relax.

Don’t lose your small spot cleaners and stain-targeting pens in a big cabinet. Consider adding drawers to your laundry room storage design to keep the space orderly and smaller essentials handy.

What elevates a space like trim and crown molding? If your goal is to upgrade your laundry experience, trim and crown molding add a finished and purposeful look to any place they are added. If your goal is to connect the style of your laundry room with the rest of your house, adding the same trim can accomplish this as well!

5. Enlist an Elegant Door Design

An elegant cabinet door design can do a lot for a space. In general, cabinets fitted to your laundry room can do a lot for the utility of the space, but decorative cabinet doors take the design to another level stylistically. Whether you want to create a unique oasis away from the rest of the house or establish a cohesive style with the rest of the home, Cabinet Joint’s catalog contains hundreds of door design options and many more ways to customize.

6. Hang Loose With a Hanging Rod

“Hang to dry” instruction labels and the whole process of ironing your garments are simplified by adding a hanging rod to your laundry room. While this is mostly a functional add, the space will certainly look more organized when you have a place to hang things that before were just strewn about. 

One of the features that will change the utility and look of your laundry room is your floor style. Picking something easy to clean will save you time and effort, and can accommodate each laundry task tossed your way. A well-selected floor can contribute to your overall interior design style or transform the spot to have a style distinctive from the rest of your home.

8. When you Chute, you Score

The laundry chute is an oldie but a goodie. Installing a laundry chute from an upstairs location to your downstairs washer and dryer can make the whole practice easier. Back and forth trips up and down the stairs carrying vision-obscuring piles of clothes and linens can be dangerous or stressful, and a laundry chute will give you safer journeys down the stairs.

9. Open Your Shelving

Whether your goal is to liven up the space or put your most-used products within reach, open shelving gives you unlimited access to personalize your space, and to keep personalizing it, with each passing season. From holiday displays to the family-approved fabric softener, open shelving keeps your essentials in sight.

From vintage-inspired wall sconces to installing an under-cabinet light rail, lighting fixtures provide unlimited new avenues for space customization. Warm up the space aesthetically with some accent lighting to enjoy the time you have to spend doing chores regardless, or select hyper-functional lighting options such as under-cabinet lighting and get things done more efficiently.

For hand washing items, rinsing stains, or muddy shoes, installing a utility sink in your laundry room can save you time, mess, and clutter. A laundry room sink will certainly improve your laundry-related tasks, but it can also help with messes around the house that you don’t want in your kitchen or bathroom sinks. Don’t sweat a stain when rinsing off your paint brushes, bring them to your utility sink.

Who says the laundry room can’t be the best spot in your house? If you’re the relaxing-by-doing-laundry type, tailoring your space to your needs can make a big difference in your day-to-day life. However, laundry may never be your favorite chore. Maybe if you make it inviting enough, people will volunteer to do your laundry for you. Or, you can design a laundry room that makes the process go as smoothly and efficiently as possible to keep your chore time to a minimum. Follow these tips to customize your space and do laundry your way.