Final week, I shared with my plan for our laundry room/closet combo. In case you missed that, right here’s one other take a look at what I shared in that put up. I had to make use of IKEA’s PAX planner for the closet aspect of the room.
After which I had to make use of the IKEA kitchen planner for the laundry room aspect of the room.
As ordinary, I bought lots of nice suggestions about that plan, a few of which I’ve already included right into a revised plan. However I don’t bear in mind anybody saying something concerning the sink. However over the weekend, I began questioning why on the planet I used to be placing a sink on this room.
I suppose after I suppose “laundry room”, I robotically skinny of a sink in that room. I believe that Pinterest and Instagram have programmed that means since all of those new laundry rooms appear to have sinks in them. So after I began designing the laundry room aspect of this room, I simply went into autopilot mode and put a sink in there.
However why? This previous weekend, as I used to be reviewing the plans and making tweaks right here and there primarily based in your enter, I beginning questioning why on the planet I believed I wanted a sink on this room. If it’s not likely wanted, then that sink is taking over precious cupboard space or precious countertop area.
So I polled my Fb web page and requested if a sink within the laundry room is critical. Lots of people mentioned no, particularly in a laundry room/closet area like I’m planning. However so many individuals mentioned YES! Once I requested what they use it for, right here had been the responses:
- to presoak an merchandise of clothes,
- to scrub hand washables,
- to scrub out paint brushes,
- to wash the canine,
- to wash up after gardening,
- to empty mop buckets,
- to wash the pet dishes,
- to wash yard instruments,
- to wash massive gadgets like coolers,
- to wash sneakers,
- to fill watering cans for watering home crops,
- to wash brass or silver,
- to scrub greens from the backyard,
- to wash/thaw seafood,
- to dye material,
- to use hair shade,
- to chop and organize flowers,
- to soak outsized pans after entertaining,
- to thaw a turkey,
- to fill with ice and drinks when entertaining,
- to wash up after doing automotive restore,
I’m certain there have been a number of that I missed, however you get the purpose. And aside from the primary merchandise on that listing, the remaining are issues that I’d by no means, ever do in a laundry room that shares area with my garments and sneakers. And even the primary merchandise, presoaking an merchandise of clothes, isn’t one thing I do. I can’t even bear in mind the final time I presoaked an merchandise of clothes earlier than washing it. Possibly I’m doing laundry fallacious. 😀
Essentially the most I ever do is spray an merchandise of clothes with a stain removing spray, throw it within the washer, let it sit there for a bit whereas I am going do one thing else, after which come again later to begin the wash cycle. That’s as intensive as my prewash/presoak routine will get. And I’m means too quick on time to purchase garments that need to be hand washed. If one thing can’t make it by a wash cycle, it doesn’t make it into my closet. Even the uncommon merchandise that I purchase with out noticing that the label says “hand wash solely” will get tossed into a fragile cycle, and I simply hope for the most effective.
So all of that to say that I don’t want, and gained’t be placing a sink on the laundry room aspect of our laundry room/closet combo. If I had been making a devoted laundry room that may even be a utility room, and particularly one which had direct entry from the again yard, I’d completely add a sink. However in our case, it simply appears odd.
I’ve been excited about the place I can add a utility sink to my studio, although. That was a suggestion that lots of you made. I type of wrote it off initially as a result of my studio goes to be so near the brand new kitchen. I thought of including a sink (or quite retaining a sink) within the space that would be the walk-through pantry that may join the again doorways of the studio to the kitchen (on the appropriate aspect of the ground plan beneath).
That space is at the moment a toilet, so it already has the required plumbing for a sink. However I type of hate to take up a lot of that area for a sink when it may be used for storage for issues that I need simply accessible to the kitchen.
So now what I’m considering is that when the door from the present breakfast room into the studio is closed up, I’m transfer my paint swatch cupboard to that wall. (It suits completely, as if it had been made to go there.) I couldn’t discover a current image of the entire space (and I gained’t take any new full-view photos till the room is totally completed, which is able to in all probability be this weekend), however you may see on this outdated image what I’m speaking about. So as a substitute of it sitting the place it’s beneath, I’ll simply transfer it to the wall to the left, overlaying the world the place the door is true now. It’ll sit simply to the appropriate of my large framed panorama design.
After which that may depart me some room for a utility sink. And once more, for the reason that space simply on the opposite aspect of that wall is at the moment a toilet, that implies that the plumbing could be very simply accessible, so it shouldn’t be a giant deal to place a sink proper there.
However I believe y’all are proper. I undoubtedly want a sink both within the studio or very close to the studio. However I undoubtedly don’t suppose I would like a sink within the laundry room/closet combo. Simply so long as I’ve a utility sink someplace, I believe that’s all I would like, and the studio makes an entire lot extra sense for that.
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