Basement laundry room – Doing laundry in the basement laundry room can be very exhausting, especially if there’s a lot of dirty laundries to do. Making the room more comfortable and effective might help you in boosting the mood.
You can actually design your own laundry room in the basement. Make it as comfortable as you want. There are a lot of interior design ideas that’ll turn your ordinary laundry room into one of the most favorite room you have in your house.
There are things you need to consider before redoing your laundry room. You have to get the best labor-saving layout or make the safeguard from a potential fire or flood, and etc. Well, those are the things you must communicate with the expert. Now let’s focus on the ideas.
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Traditional Basement Laundry Room
At the first glance, you will notice this laundry room gives you every storage that you need for laundry. It has a laundry sorting baskets, the hanging bar over the machines and the open self.
The contrast color among the furniture, walls, and washing machines makes this laundry room design more exciting. With this ideas, your laundry room won’t be the boring place to go in your house. Let’s get traditional.
Spacious Basement Laundry Room
This laundry room design is for a large basement. If you have a large space in your basement and you want to make it all be a place for laundry, this is your solution. It’s a recommended idea for a laundry room that has a lot of stuff to wash.
This spacious laundry room is designed for you who are in a laundry business or you who has a big amount of dirty laundry every day. This design can inspire you to support your laundry activity. Just look at the closets, cabinets, and hanging bar, they’re lovely.
Pros:
- The laundry activity would be so much comfortable in spacious room
- Your business would run well
Cons:
- You don’t need a large room for your personal laundry
- The large room would waste a lot of space in the basement
Suggestion. Choosing a basement laundry room design should be based on the space you have and space you need. If you need only some small space to do laundry, you can have the rest of the space to be used for other purposes.
Hidden and Clean Laundry Room with Door
Commonly, basement has more than one room to be used in various actions such as games room, basement living room, and even a bedroom. So, getting the laundry room away from sight is a must. This design can be a good solution for your basement.
So, You do not need to showcase the washer and the dryer when you do other activities in the basement. A custom set of double doors would help you to hide the laundry space away from sight.
Pros:
- The best solution to keep your basement neat and clean
- Comfortable for visitors
Cons:
- Your washer and dryer can’t be showcased
- The room would be too small
Hidden and Clean Laundry Room with Curtain
If you do not have space for the door, or you want the be hidden without doors. The curtain can create a partition between laundry space and others. The curtain is such a relieving solution if you do not want to have major planning to design your basement.
Just draw the curtain in front of the washer and dryer like this basement design. When the curtain covers the laundry area, the wet bar beside it would take the center stage. That’s what most households want.
Open Laundry Room for Double
On the contrary with the previous idea, you can showcase your washer and dryer in your open laundry space. They can be exposed to get good-looking of arrangement. Double sets of washers and dryers make the room so ready for some serious soil.
It features plenty of cabinets for storage and an open space of counter for folding. This is definitely what you can call a laundry room. You can’t hide them away from sight except you have them in their own closed room.
Suggestion. The design of the machines should be similar to make the room design harmonized.
Fashionista’s Laundry Room
It’s a great example of a stylish basement laundry room. It has a lot of cabinets and storage space that you can use. The arrangement of this laundry room design is breath-taking from every corner that it has.
The washer and dryer are placed in the effective position. Those are already elevated so that the user doesn’t have to bend over too much to reach the laundry. As you can see, I’m pretty sure that the bright light will give you a good mood.
Master Suite Laundry Room
This stunning concept of laundry room would be a solution to your messy place.It has an extremely well-organized space. There are a lot of storage for you to organize your laundry stuff.
I believe people would really love the design of the open drawers I picked. The elegant flooring really makes a good match to the rest of furniture. It’s also pleasing to the eye.
Dark and Classic Basement Laundry Room
You can apply this classic design in your basement laundry room. Choosing a dark wood for the cabinets for the room in the basement is pretty uncommon since the basement room tends to be darker than the upper room.
But, with the proper lights and perfect color combination, you will have the most classy laundry room you’ll ever have.
Pros:
- The dark furniture would turn your room into a classy masterpiece
- The accent colors are the key to designing a room with dark color domination.
Cons:
- Darkroom might uncomfortable for some people
Bright and Clean Laundry Room
If you love the laundry room to be simple and clean, you need to have it in white color like this one. As you can see, it has wainscoting on the walls which makes this laundry room less boring.
Even though the white color is dominating the room, it’s not boring at all. There are some light brown counter and black floorings to accentuate. This laundry room idea can be applied in your basement, make sure there’s enough natural light in there.
Suggestion. Adding some decors with dark colors will make the white bright room less boring.
Black Cabinets Laundry Room
Having all the cabinets in Black, is that even possible? Yes, it is. In designing, you need to think something extreme to get a unique design for your room. Even though the theme is black, it doesn’t mean you will have a dark room. It would be ridiculous.
I accentuate it with the bright floorings, countertops, ceilings, and backsplash. So, the room colors are in balance. It looks cool though.
Suggestion. Black furniture can’t be very dark, especially for a basement room. Even though you already provide the bright lighting, the room would still feel dark. In order to get it less dark, you can brighten it up by combining it with white accent.
Laundry Room Office
Some people need to do multitasking at any time possible. They want to use their time as effective as possible. The activity of laundry doesn’t take so many things to do, you will have some spare times while the machines’ working.
You can do something else like working or reading books and magazines in the exact same room. The combination of office and laundry room can be pretty effective for you. The chair is perfect for comfort and rest your body for a while.
Rustic Aesthetic in Laundry Room
If you are into something shabby and rustic, try applying this design idea. Some people might think that it looks really old and ugly. But, if you look it in your artistic sense, you will understand why people love this kind of design.
Take a look at the beautiful cabinet. The vintage color and rustic feeling blend them together. There are enough storages you can use. A chair and a table in the corner are a nice touch to the room.
Pros:
- If you are into something vintage and classic, rustic style is definitely for you
- Old and antique furniture can be a perfect option for this room design.
Cons:
- Rustic style doesn’t work well with laundry room
Suggestion. Make a combination of two styles. For example, you can combine the rustic style with modern style. Make your basement laundry room as stylish as possible.
Laundry Room with Sweet Cabinetry
I was inspired by Shane Inman when I designed this laundry room. This custom-designed laundry room gives you such amazing features. The thing that would gladly catch your attention is the sweet cabinetry. It looks so matched with all elements.
The granite countertops really make a great accent to the room. The under-mount sink is also pretty functional in there. Even though it has small space, it feels comfortable doing laundry inside this laundry room.
Calming Blue Laundry Room
Looking for the fresh atmosphere inside your basement, well you could try applying a light blue color on the walls. When I planned to paint the walls, it’s pretty challenging in choosing the right shades.
Finally, this shades of blue were chosen with a doubt. As you can see, we regret the doubt. It looks amazing and so calming. The white color makes the laundry room perfect. It really glows at the right amount of brightness.
Suggestion. As you can see in the picture, the laundry room is located in some part of the room, only in a limited space, not all of the room. Even though it’s open, it looks gorgeous though, you do not need to hide it away.
Soothing Green Laundry Room
If you are not interested with Blue, what about green? Everyone loves green, right? The color of green is the closest to nature. That’s one of the reasons I choose this color for a laundry room in the basement.
Well, it might be a little bit hard to see some nature from down there, you may need to have the artificial one. I guessed, Green walls would definitely represent the nature you can’t get in the basement. Combine it with white color makes it perfect.
Suggestion. You should pick the exact shades of green. Take a look at the photo above, that green color would be the perfect one for your white machines and cabinetry.
Laundry Room with Wood Grains
An expert told me something about this. He said if I want to make a room looks absolutely gorgeous, try wood grains. As you can see, almost all of the elements in this laundry room is using wood grains design.
The pattern of wood grains is not similar each other. That’s what makes the room much more gorgeous. You could exactly experience the rich feel that this room has to offer. The design of the machine fits well in the room too.
Pros:
- Wood grains pattern is such a classic choice for a room
- It looks luxurious
Cons:
- It seems a bit dark
- When dealing with woods, you need to handle it with care by cleaning it often.
Subterranean Laundry Room
Just look at the picture, it looks so fun, right? There are some different solid colors there. The checkered floorings are the hottest element in this laundry room. It catches the attention of any visitors.
The vintage machines and rustic sink seem unmatched since it’s subterranean, so it’s no problem. I painted the cinder block walls to make the rustic power get decreased a little bit. There will be some pros and cons with this design.
Pros:
- It looks so unique and it must be the one and only
- Painting the cinder block wall is the right thing to do
- The old vintage machines really belong to this room
Cons:
- It looks a little bit weird and too much
- The red storage on the right wasn’t supposed to be there
- The old and rustic design of the sink doesn’t feel right
Conclusion
People have their own purpose when they decide to renovate their basement. One of the most common rooms in the basement is a laundry room. A laundry room doesn’t have to be a boring place. You need to design a stylish and comfortable place to do your laundry every day.
All of those design ideas above can be your inspiration in designing your own basement laundry room. Set your day for doing laundry to be a great success one. When it well-planned and comfortable, the activity would be fun to do.
