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Build
a Laundry Room Cabinet and Expand Your Options
The laundry room cabinet can serve many purposes besides
hiding the bottles and boxes of cleaners and detergents. The
fact is the laundry room is going mainstream in new homes,
and older homes are being remodeled to increase family use
and convenience. Used to hold state of the art laundry
appliances, they often also serve as craft and hobby areas.
Before you begin to build a laundry room cabinet, you must
first decide what the room will be used for and what you
want to store in the structure. You may decide you want to
move the laundry room from the basement to the first floor
for convenience. Or you might want to move the appliances in
the current laundry room to gain more floor space.
Build a Laundry Room Cabinet
You should set your appliances first and then build the
cabinets around them. A laundry room can be so much more
than just a place to do laundry. Laundry rooms are used as
“mud rooms” where dirty clothes can be removed without
tracking through the house. They are also used as craft
rooms because they usually have vinyl or ceramic tile and no
carpet to stain. They hold brooms, outdoor clothing, ironing
boards and cleaners.
There are several approaches you can take to build a laundry
room cabinet. A cabinet can be built from your own design.
You can buy pre-built cabinets you install. You can also use
modular storage cabinets that are easy to assemble. Cabinets
can be overhead cabinets, floor cabinets, broom closets,
ironing board closets, shelving units, craft storage
cabinets and many other configurations. That’s why it’s
important to decide on all the purposes for the room before
you begin building any cabinets.
One important consideration for the laundry room is to give
yourself space for folding clothes. That’s probably one of
the most common needs not planned for during laundry room
design. You can add a clothes folding counter on top of a
floor cabinet base. If you build upper cabinets, add
lighting underneath the cabinet. Then the counter can be
used for clothes folding or craft building.
Some laundry rooms have become such popular family rooms,
they include a television. You can build a laundry room
cabinet to hide the television when not in use or to protect
it from laundry room dampness. When you build your cabinets,
don’t forget to add a clothes line or a place to hang
clothes you remove from the dryer.
As you can see there are many factors to consider before you
build a laundry room cabinet. You should draw your floor
plan first and then design the cabinets to fit the plan.
Many homes today match their laundry room cabinets to
cabinetry in other rooms of the house. |
