Most laundry areas aren’t anything special. People install their machines and store the detergent on top of their machines. This can make your laundry area look like a utilitarian eyesore.
But there are some really inexpensive DIY hacks you can learn that will help you easily makeover your laundry room. You can make your laundry room a place that you want to be. A beautiful room makes doing laundry less of a chore.
Not only can you beautify your space but you can also increase storage and function. Even in the smallest of laundry spaces! These small laundry room designs will turn your tiny space into a gorgeous organized one that looks a lot larger.
Here are 50 essential small laundry room designs to give you the big organizational space you need:
Don’t have an extra room for laundry? Repurose an old closet by taking off the doors and installing a stackable washing machine and dryer. Leave some room on the side for shelving.
Just because you have a small laundry room doesn’t mean that it can’t look nice. Use wallpaper to bring some personality to your space. It can can bring some nice color to a tiny space.
Crisp white colors invoke thoughts of cleanliness and that’s what doing laundry is all about. Using this color throughout your laundry room can also make it look larger. It will also really brighten up your space.
Have a large bathroom but no room for an extra laundry room? Turn your bathroom into your laundry room. Place your washer and dryer underneath your bathroom countertop.
Place a sink in between your laundry machine. This can break the room up a bit. It will make the room look more like a room, rather than where you just store your laundry machines.
Create some storage in between your washer and dryer. You can also use this area to put a slim garbage can. This can make your laundry room look less cluttered and larger.
You can turn laundry machines into a laundry station instantly with this trick. Just add a countertop on top of your machines. This could be as simple as a piece of wood or butcher’s block laid on top of your machnes or put a table place over your machine.
A good way to save space is to let your rooms do double duty. Let your mudroom serve as a laundry room as well. You can put your machines in the opposite wall or place them in your mudroom unit.
This is a really convenient layout. Place your laundry machines inside your walk-in clothing closet. This way you can wash your clothes and immediately put them away.
If your laundry machines are in a closet, they can be hard to access if you have door. Use a curtain instead. This will hide your machines while giving you complete access.
Having nice lighting also make your room look more put together. Like the room was intentionally decorated rather than just having a washing machine shoved in it. Good lighting can also make your room look larger.
You can still have a folding station even if you don’t have a countertop in your laundry room. This folding station folds down and also serves as a shelf. You can also use it to hold a mini ironing board.
Pedestal drawers are great in a small laundry room. They give you height so your machines are more accessible and they also have storage space. You can find DIY pedestal storage ideas here.
Don’t forget to use your doors for storage. You can place these over the door wire baskets to store your detergent. They can go over your room door or cabinet doors.
Use storage baskets in your laundry room. This will keep your detergent and other supplies neat and out of sight. Matching ones makes everything look serene and tidy.
You can still store everything you need even if you don’t have space for bulky drawers and cabinetry. Use a peg board instead. You can hang everything you need on it. Learn how to make and hang one here.
Garbage bins can take up a lot of space. And you only really need one for tossing out lint and dryer sheets. Make your own lint bin that you can attach to the wall to save space.
This is a good way to add some simple function in your laundry room to dress things up a bit. Make a pretty DIY jar to hold loose change and a cute sign to attach lost socks to. Or you can buy them here.
Use printed labels in your laundry room. This makes it easy to identify what’s in your storage baskets. It also makes everything look nice and neat which can reduce the appearance clutter in a small laundry room.
