Fun & Functional Laundry Room Makeover Ideas to Make Wash Day a Cinch

It’s easy for your laundry room to wind up a jumble of unsorted clothes, hangers, and assorted junk. But if your laundry room is drowning in clutter, you’ll use twice as much time on laundry. Take more time to be relaxing with your family.

These laundry room makeover ideas will keep things running smoothly and looking good! 

Make sure to cover your needs

The first step in your laundry room makeover is ensuring your laundry needs are covered.

Will you be doing a lot of ironing in your laundry room? Make a designated space for ironing, with easy-to-reach hangers, starch, water bottle, hanging rod, and other supplies nearby.

Do you do a high volume of laundry? Incorporate a good folding table, cushioned mat, and a wall-mounted TV.

Consider which items you use most often in the laundry room while planning your makeover. Make sure you make those tasks as easy as possible.

Use your vertical space.

Laundry rooms are often on the small side, so maximizing your vertical storage space is important. This laundry room makeover used the hollow space between wall studs to hide a little fold-away ironing board and shelves for starch and other laundry products.

These kitchen-style wooden wall cabinets give even this walk-through laundry space plenty of storage for laundry detergent and other items. This setup uses the space between the cabinets and the washer and dryer as additional cabinet space enclosed by decorative drawer-pull-style doors, rather than just leaving it as empty space. 

Incorporate things that make your job easier

Above all else, your laundry room is functional. Just like your kitchen and bathroom, if your laundry room becomes cluttered and disorganized, it will keep you from getting the job done, and chaos will ensue.

The best thing you can do to make things easier in your laundry room is to keep it organized.

There are a lot of other simple steps you can take that will make your job much easier. One is to keep separate bottles of stain pre-treatment in the bathroom and the laundry room.

You discover some stains when getting undressed, but others you don’t notice until you put the clothes in the washer. This will keep you from running back and forth, searching for the stain pre-treatment.

One step that is a little more involved but will save you loads of time is arranging your laundry room in “work zones” like your kitchen.

Stand in the spot where you will perform a key task, such as loading the laundry, and then make sure that everything you will need for that task—detergent, fabric softener, stain pre-treatment, etc.—is within easy reach.

This might be your only work zone if you have a tiny walk-through laundry area. A larger laundry room might also have an ironing work zone with an iron, hangers, spray bottle, starch, a hanging rod, etc., and a folding area with a laundry basket and hangers.

These zones will save you thousands of steps and countless hours.

Another big time-saver is to invest in a multi-chambered clothes hamper if you have the room. This will allow you to pre-sort the laundry into lights, darks, whites, and delicates before it’s time to do the washing, so you will know when you have a full load of each and speed up loading time. You’ll be glad you did!

Here are more ideas for your laundry room makeover and easier DIY room makeovers. And with holidays right around the corner, here are 7 essential de-cluttering tips so you can relax and enjoy the company!

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Photos courtesy of Maegan Tintari and Maegan Tintari.