A Small Laundry Room Is not a Large Drawback with IKD

On this article:

• Why owners flip to IKD for an IKEA laundry room design.
• Ache factors of small laundry rooms.
• How IKD designs small laundry rooms to perform in a giant approach.

IKD can create a useful IKEA laundry room in lower than 50 sq. ft. of area

It’s honest to say that U.S. laundry rooms are a little bit of a luxurious. In Europe, it’s frequent for the washer to be within the kitchen with solely a drying rack as an alternative of a dryer. Within the U.S., the typical laundry room is 6’ x 9’.

Even in case you can’t think about having a washer the place your dishwasher needs to be, it goes to indicate that it’s doable to make smaller laundry rooms work. For the aim of this text, we’re calling a “small” laundry room something lower than 50 sq. ft.

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3 Frequent Small Laundry Room Design Roadblocks

1. Discovering room to fold and type garments.

Typically, it’s tough for owners to look previous the dimensions of an area and picture artistic options. You might want an expert designer to reassure you that, sure, you may match a countertop in that tiny area.

That’s the place we are available, and, no, the reply isn’t at all times to stack your washer and dryer and stick a counter subsequent to it. We designed a countertop for side-by-side home equipment for one buyer, Alexandra, again in 2020. She needed a budget-friendly laundry room design with as a lot perform as doable.

“Our funds for the laundry room mission was rather a lot smaller [than our master bath]. I nonetheless needed a customized look however didn’t wish to pay a customized worth,” Alexandra tells us. “We knew we needed countertop area, a deep sink, and to maximise the cupboard area up prime.”

When Alexandra contacted IKD, she had a allow and a flooring plan, and we helped guarantee she was maximizing her area, even with side-by-side home equipment.
She selected a third-party quartz countertop paired with Semihandmade’s Agave Supermatte Shaker panels to construct a countertop over her washer and dryer. It blends seamlessly with the adjoining SEKTION cupboards, MAXIMERA drawers, and SEKTION wall cupboards, additionally completed with Agave Supermatte Shaker fronts.
Alexandra was left with only one concern: How would she entry the home equipment in the event that they wanted to be serviced?

IKD beneficial putting in a hinge on the again of the countertop, permitting it to raise for straightforward entry.

“All of it ended up working completely!”
–Alexandra, IKD buyer

The opposite choice for including a worktop is having a workspace beside a stacked washer and dryer, as seen on this design.

For this home-owner, sacrificing some counter area was value it to have a sink close by.
In our complete design questionnaire, we ask you to replicate on how you propose to make use of the area, your aesthetic, your design considerations, and different particulars that can assist preserve you in management and make the design course of run easily.

2. Optimizing laundry room storage

Going vertical will help with including laundry room storage, as properly. Within the following design, we gave our buyer floor-to-ceiling storage. Nonetheless, you may have some choices to make.

As an example, do you wish to use GODMORGON in your laundry room or SEKTION cupboards? We design utilizing each, however every product line has its quirks.

The principle distinction between the 2 choices is that SEKTION is extra customizable. With GODMORGON, your cupboard colour choices are grey, brown, or white. With SEKTION, you may select from any IKEA door model, in addition to customized third-party IKEA door fabricators, like Semihandmade.

SEKTION cupboards are additionally extra customizable as a result of you may hack SEKTION cupboards. For instance, to make sure no beneficial area goes to waste, we are able to embrace detailed directions on easy methods to trim cupboards, create open cupboards, and even use a panel to create a customized 5” drawer, as seen within the hack diagram under.

One other approach to optimize storage is to make the most of our inside cupboard designs. By utilizing inside organizers, like these offered by Rev-A-Shelf, you may benefit from your cupboards and even retailer a number of welcome surprises, like a drying rack and ironing board.

The Rev-A-Shelf self-importance ironing board (VIB-20CR) matches inside an arrogance drawer between 14-1/4″ and 21″ vast, whereas the drying rack drawer (4WDR-24HSC-1) matches in a 21” vast drawer and affords as much as 18’ linear of drying area.

Within the instance under, we hacked a SEKTION tall cupboard body to accommodate the Rev-A-Shelf pullout on the fitting. This was designed for our buyer and foster canine mother, Chelsey, earlier this 12 months.

“There have been a number of issues that will make my life simpler: an even bigger laundry room, a spot to maintain shy foster canine, and a spot to wash the canine.”
–Chelsey, IKD buyer

This Rev-A-Shelf hack provided Chelsey easy accessibility to pet merchandise with out leaving the wash station or having a cluttered mess of bottles and sprays on the ground subsequent to her.

3. Benefiting from awkward laundry areas

Our designers shine when a home-owner involves us with an odd or inconvenient architectural problem. Vents, pipes, soffits, sloped ceilings, and even chimneys could make an already small laundry room really feel not possible to navigate.

Typically, the bug is the characteristic.

For sloped ceilings, we embrace hole fillers and cupboard hacks to make the area useful and exquisite, giving the storage a built-in really feel regardless of peak variations. Under is an instance of how we designed round a soffit for patrons Glenn and Patricia.

By putting open BURHULT shelving within the higher proper nook as an alternative of a cupboard, we make sure the area beneath the soffit is usable.

Why Select IKD in your Small Laundry Room Design?

At IKD, we don’t simply plug merchandise right into a program. We take the time to get to know you, your wants, and the area you’re using. As a result of we don’t work for IKEA, we are able to advocate choices that will higher fit your wants, like Semihandmade doorways, Rev-A-Shelf organizers, and IKEA cupboard hacks.

Our Laundry Room Design Bundle is simply $395 and consists of:

• Floorplan
• Elevation drawings
• 3-D colour renderings
• Lighting plans
• Inside group design
• IKEA pricing and buy information

Get artistic with an IKEA Laundry Room design from IKD

It’s simple to assume you’ll have a laundry room you like in case you simply had more room. However the reality is loving your laundry room comes all the way down to the design. Even when you have little area, IKD considers your ache factors, devises options, and presents an in depth design package deal that takes all the pieces you like about massive laundry rooms and places it in a pint-sized package deal.