Need laundry advice!
Hi,
We are renovating our small laundry. It's 1.6x2.0m, under the stairs so a sloping roof in parts, with a door to the toilet.
Currently it has both a laundry trough and a hand basin for the toilet.
We want to put a tall cupboard on the back, with a bench over the top of the washing maching and a drop in laundry trough. Thinking high gloss white cupboards with a grey-ish bench top (and possibly some new lighting!). We want to re-tile and re pain while we are at it.
My main question is, what do I do with this hand basin? Leave it? Replace it? Remove it completely? Given that access to the downstairs toilet is through the laundry I would like something that looks nice and neat (I had considered elfa shelving. But I would rather hide things in a cupboard!)
Sorry about the poor photos - I struggled in the small room!
Comments (15)
LouieT
8 years agoi nyssa57, could you have a set of bifold doors in front of the laundry section plus add the bench over the washing machine & do a drop in tub?
This will allow you to add shelving such as the Elfa system but behind doors that fold back to the wall.
Extreme Makeover · More InfoThe vanity seems to be in good condition so maybe you could just add to it with some tall matching timber or grey open shelves & dress it up with nice decor items & low maintenance plants like succulents that don't mind indoors.
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nyssa57
8 years ago
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8 years ago
Elaina Wood
8 years agoj9rob
8 years ago
Ben Staples
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoLike j9rob, we installed a ceramic Butler's type sink (I think ours was described as a Belfast sink) for our laundry trough and used it as a hand basin too. Big space saver, we even bathed our newborn daughter in it until about 10 weeks old. Our laundry was about 1.5x2.0m in size. We also used excess porcelain floor tiles from our kitchen renovation for the splashback to save a few dollars.
denisreno
8 years agokooky_karen
8 years agonyssa57
4 years agoVery belated update:
We moved the washing machine from the back wall to the side wall (beside the basin in the original pics). We went with one large sink - small for a laundry tub but it did the job (I think I could soak one queen size sheet in it.) If I ever wanted to soak anything larger I would get a big plastic tub and do that.
Cat litter went in cabinet under sink, we put a cat flap in the door, and we purchased a spare door that we put on when we sold the house.
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View from doorway:
Heres the before and after of the toilet. Although I know that floors and paint makes all the difference, its one thing to know it and another to see it (for me, anyway).
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