Do You Really Need Laundry Room?
Put the laundry room anywhere but the basement. It’s probably just a marketing tool to sell more washing machines, but one major manufacturer, Whirlpool, has been pushing the concept of what I call the “super laundry room.”
The correct name is the Whirlpool® Family Studio, and it’s not only for washing and drying clothes. The space is designed to accommodate all the messy chores, crafts, sewing, homework, and gardening projects. If you don’t want to look at it, you simply close the door. Including a variety of newfangled laundry-related tools, cabinets, counters, and workspaces, the cost is about $30,000.
In a new house, you can add that to the mortgage and pay for it over a few hundred months. In older houses—well, a midrange kitchen addition costs about that much, and you might able to work a modest but workable laundry area into a corner of it.
Getting back to reality, here are a few things you should know about laundry and trends before you decide where you want a new and improved one.
A builders’ association survey found that 92 percent of buyers wanted a laundry room among a home’s extra rooms for convenience and luxury. Where to put that laundry room did not have such a clearcut answer. The survey showed that 26 percent wanted it near the bedrooms, 26 percent near the kitchen, 23 percent in the basement, and 10 percent in the garage.
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