ᐅ Ikea Pax Utility Room/Laundry System? – What setup do you have?

Fummelbrett! schrieb:

This is our laundry room.

As far as I can see, your laundry room is in the basement.

Our utility room will be on the upper floor, next to the bathroom. It will store all large towels, bed linens, cleaning supplies, and hygiene product stock.

If ours were in the basement and we had plenty of space, I would do it differently too 🙂

But this way, in my opinion, we were able to use the space very efficiently.

But another question: we are considering replacing the utility room door with a glass sliding door—partly to bring more light into the hallway and partly to save the space taken up by the door leaf when open.

We never do laundry when someone is sleeping or anything like that 🙂 Does anyone else have a similar arrangement?

We have a glass door to the utility room on the upper floor next to the bathroom. It works really well.

Yaso2.0 schrieb:

As far as I can see, your laundry room is in the basement.

We don’t have a basement 😉 The laundry room is on the ground floor (large, old house – the laundry room is in a ground-floor extension and used to be a pigsty). What would personally bother me about having the laundry upstairs is the constant climbing of stairs. But that’s also because I don’t do laundry regularly; instead, I have one "laundry day" every one, two, or three weeks, when the machines run all day long. So every 1.5 to 2 hours, I go up, unload the washing machine, put the clothes that can go in the dryer there, hang others on the line, and reload the washing machine. Since everyday life takes place on the ground floor, the distances are pleasantly short.

I really like your idea of the glass door – it makes the whole thing a bit friendlier and brighter.

Fummelbrett! schrieb:

What would personally bother me about doing laundry on the upper floor is the constant climbing of stairs. But that’s also because I don’t wash regularly; instead, I have one "laundry day" every one, two, or three weeks, when the machines run all day.

Our laundry is on the upper floor, and right now I carry everything down to the ground floor and then back up again. We always do laundry when there’s enough to fill a machine. We’ve never had a dedicated laundry day.

We have now ordered the utility room cabinet system. If everything goes as planned, nothing related to laundry should end up anywhere else but upstairs in the utility room 😀

If it doesn’t work out or we don’t like it, then that’s just too bad for us 😀

The utility room on the upper floor was also one of the best decisions in our house. Where does most of the laundry come from? The bedrooms and the bathroom. The only things still carried up and down are the towels from the guest toilet and the cloths from the kitchen.

Many aspects of house construction are not very logical. My wife flatly rejected having a utility room on the upper floor (not that we had space for one anyway). I believe that if we had a basement, a room there would have been a typical laundry room, despite the walking distances involved.

One walk path that could still be considered: people sometimes hang laundry outside in the garden, so having the utility room on the upper floor becomes less practical again...