Custom Laundry Room Ideas

Pegboard With Hangers

• "Sunset Ideas for Storage" offers several recommendations for making your laundry duties more convenient by building with those duties in mind. Take a tip from tool workshops by adding a large pegboard on which you can attach hangers for keeping creases sharp while you go about the rest of your laundry chores.

Foldaway Ironing Board

• A foldaway ironing board can be stored behind a false drawer, according to "The Complete Home Style." An effective location for this false drawer is in the front of a sink unit. Utilize telescopic supporting brackets to assist in the construction of the hiding mechanism. This ironing board will provide you with more storage space and keep you from the frustration of dealing with opening and closing a traditional ironing board.

Laundry Chute

• If the only place you ever saw a laundry chute was on "The Brady Bunch" or another TV show, you can not only live out that childhood dream, but even make laundry fun for the kids. A laundry chute is the perfect choice for those living in a two-story house who are going to be adding a dedicated laundry room. The chute cleanly directs dirty clothes away from human contact and down into a waiting basket or storage area. Your kids may actually look forward to picking up their dirty clothes off the floor.

Laundry Layover

• A laundry layover is the name given to a customized shelf arrangement suggested by the writers of "Sunset Complete Home Storage." The customizing of the design allows you to create cubicles for holding cleaning supplies and wide-open shelves for hanging shirts, dresses or suits. Smaller shelving provides a setting for folded laundry items.

Television

• One element you may want to consider adding to your laundry room is cable and a nice television. The laundry process takes time and it can get quite tedious if you don't have something to occupy your interest. Placing a television with full access to your lineup of cable channels can do wonders for helping the time pass by. This is especially true if you are planning on creating a laundry room large enough to allow you to do the folding chores inside the area.