Updating a houses basic Laundry into something wonderful.
From the moment we bought our house, one of the first things we said were “The Laundry needs to be upgraded”, and rightfully so. Our laundry was bare bones basic with just a standard trough with zero storage. So we set out to upgrade it with more storage, more bench space and ultimately make it a practical working environment.
The first issue we ran into is design, as you can see through this picture, it isn’t exactly the best:
The door opened inwards on the side that all our plumbing is, you have to walk in and around the trough to get outside to the clothesline. We made a number of different designs that incorporated this layout, but we were never really satisfied. That was until we just went… why don’t we just move where the door is?
So this is the new layout:
And this is what we came up with in terms of the Laundry Space:
My dad took the lead from here (being a qualified carpenter / handyman), first thing that went out was the wall and a new doorway was built, the old door was flipped to accommodate its new positioning.
We then had some custom shelves made by an associate of my dad’s, these were built and delivered within 3 days.
While the building process took place, a friend (qualified electrician) installed 4 power points in the laundry, one in the tall space, one on the bench space, one specifically for the washing machine and one for the dryer. After the cupboards and bench was installed, the sink was put in and our plumber friend came through and hooked up the washing machine and sink. The washing machine itself fit great and we had a fully functioning laundry. Finally, our subway tiles were installed.
After that, things came in pieces, I installed a hand towel rack next to our sink so we can dry our hands
We also purchased, and wall mounted a dryer for the space we left open specifically for it.
We then bought a clothes hamper from Bunnings and installed it in one of our cupboards.
Finally, we bought some cheap retractable, mountable clothes indoor clothes lines for when it’s raining.
In all, we’re lucky to have not paid for trades, with all the materials in total only costing us $1700, it’s made our lives infinitely easier and added so much value to our home.
