Small Laundry Cupboard Design Ideas

Peter Landers

An elegant way to hide your laundry. While this European laundry takes up less floor space you're not giving away storage, function or style. Tim Turner Photography

Functionality is the most important factor in this space. Everything you need in a Laundry with hidden ironing board in a drawer and hidden laundry basket in the cupboard keeps this small space looking tidy at all times. The blue patterned tiles with the light timber look bench tops add form as well as function to this Laundry Renovation

Bespoke, Secret utility room! Doors hide a sink, water softener and the washing machine & tumble dryer! Chris Kemp

Hood House is a playful protector that respects the heritage character of Carlton North whilst celebrating purposeful change. It is a luxurious yet compact and hyper-functional home defined by an exploration of contrast: it is ornamental and restrained, subdued and lively, stately and casual, compartmental and open. For us, it is also a project with an unusual history. This dual-natured renovation evolved through the ownership of two separate clients. Originally intended to accommodate the needs of a young family of four, we shifted gears at the eleventh hour and adapted a thoroughly resolved design solution to the needs of only two. From a young, nuclear family to a blended adult one, our design solution was put to a test of flexibility. The result is a subtle renovation almost invisible from the street yet dramatic in its expressive qualities. An oblique view from the northwest reveals the playful zigzag of the new roof, the rippling metal hood. This is a form-making exercise that connects old to new as well as establishing spatial drama in what might otherwise have been utilitarian rooms upstairs. A simple palette of Australian hardwood timbers and white surfaces are complimented by tactile splashes of brass and rich moments of colour that reveal themselves from behind closed doors. Our internal joke is that Hood House is like Lazarus, risen from the ashes. We’re grateful that almost six years of hard work have culminated in this beautiful, protective and playful house, and so pleased that Glenda and Alistair get to call it home.

The sperate laundry room was integrated into the kitchen and the client loves having the laundry hidden behind cupboards. The door to the backyard allows are easy access to the washing line.

The task was to create a utility room resembling a 'walk in closet', clean, pristine, practical and stylish. All pips, electrical cables, wall connections, including boiler to be covered. Wall panels and shelves to be removable for access to water boiler and all pipes and electrical cable. It came together rather neatly.

Kris Moya

Clever use of fitting the laundry in behind cabinet doors as paet of the kitchen renovation. Photographed by Darryl Ellwood Photography

Nathan Lanham