Why my laundry is one of my biggest building regrets

It’s now been 2 years since we moved into our home and overall I’m so happy with our house — it has great flow, there’s no wasted space and I love the feel of it — that is, except for our laundry!

As we were building, I realised that our dining room was very tight. It would have been a squeeze to fit large dining furniture… and I wanted a space large enough to entertain family and friends. So we decided to relocate our laundry into the garage, allowing us to make the dining room a larger space. We made this decision relatively last minute and didn’t put any thought into our laundry whatsoever. As a result, what we ended up with was some random cabinetry along one side of our garage and I’ve never liked this as a laundry solution. Now it’s finally time to do something about it!

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Laundry now

Here is the best my laundry has ever looked with some very over-exposed photography and moving everything out of my laundry space…

Laundry styling front on building regrets

… In reality, this is how my laundry usually looks — a complete bomb site where hardware covers the bench, and I can barely walk through the cluttered floor.

Laundry reality building regret — Embarrassingly this is what my laundry usually looks like… Easy to see why it’s one of my biggest building regrets!

What makes this even worse is that we have a door by our garage that many people use as an entry. So it’s like ‘Ta da, welcome to my mess of a garage/laundry’ — not the kind of first impression I want to create.

I’ve decided to put some thought and effort into our laundry space. As you can see, it’s one of my biggest building regrets, and enough is enough!

Improvements I intend to make

Definitely on the ‘to do’ list in here is:

reconfigure cabinetry to integrate washing machine
tile floor because this stained concrete slab is just YUCK
build a wall to divide the laundry from the garage so it will become a laundry/mud room
possibly render or plaster the red brick back wall so the overall space feels lighter and brighter
style and make it feel like a welcoming space.

The past few weeks I’ve been getting quotes from various trades and fingers crossed my new laundry will be complete by mid-November.

Next week, I’m going to share more of my laundry inspiration and product selections and I’d LOVE your suggestions and ideas too xx