How To Build A Small Utility Room
If you are short on floor space stacking a washing machine and dryer is a good idea.
How to build a small utility room. Next to this clever cupboard is space for a laundry basket to slot in at an angle while above theres more slimline storage hanging racks an open shelf and a useful pinboard. Consider installing a worktop in a storage cupboard. Choose a small glass or transparent ceiling pendant to cast as much light around the room as possible and use spotlights in areas where you need.
To make the room a useable space the next floor cabinet along is super-shallow but perfect for bottles of cleaning liquids. Go for a utility room with simple closed wall mounted cabinets and sink to make the chores easier. The key to a smart utility room is banishing all product packaging from view.
Use them to store soap powder or liquid laundry softener descaling and dishwasher tablets. Instead explore whether you could section off part of your kitchen by building a stud partition wall and adding a doorway. A foldaway clothes airer will tuck away down the side of the washing machine to keep it all neatly stored together.
This is an example of a small traditional l-shaped utility room in West Midlands with a built-in sink flat-panel cabinets beige cabinets white walls a side by side washer and dryer and grey worktops. Going for a utility room will make it easier to store spare things that cannot be kept lying all around. Finally as the utility room is not classed as a habitable room there is no requirement for openable windows.
If your utility room is narrower than youd like if its clearly visible from the kitchen or hallway or if you have to pass through it to get to the garden order is key. This cupboard squeezes in a washing machine tumble dryer and shelving to create the ultimate bijou utility area. No plumbing needed as we will just have the tumble dryer and a fridge freezer in there so 2 double sockets then a strip light.
Go high shine and sanitary From soap suds to sodden socks and unsavoury spills a utility can become messy quickly especially when in the throes of a full cleaning spree. Basically a brick built lean to with a window. Zone your utility room.