Where Is Your Laundry Room?
By MARILYN
@Marilynda1225 (82798)
United States
August 3, 2016 9:48am CST
When I bought my house one of the major selling features was that the laundry room is on the second floor by the bedrooms. Ahhh so much easier than lugging a basket up and down the stairs to get the laundry done.
In my past houses the laundry was always located in the basement which meant lugging up and down usually two flights of steps.
Every time I do laundry I am thankful that my laundry is convenient and I don't have to do all that lugging any more.
Do you have to lug your laundry up and down stairs?
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36 responses
@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
3 Aug 16
Wow. With UK weather, it must take forever for your laundry to dry. 
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
3 Aug 16
@ElizabethWallace I have radiators - the wet clothes go on them in the winter.
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@Fleura (30392)
• United Kingdom
3 Aug 16
@ElizabethWallace On days like today it takes minutes - much better than a drier, and free and environmentally-friendly.
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
I keep my fingers crossed that I never have a problem with the washer on the 2nd floor
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@LadyDuck (471506)
• Switzerland
4 Aug 16
@Marilynda1225 I had when I lived in France. The faucet bringing the water to the washer broke while we were in the United States. When we came back home the carpeting in all the apartment was soaked. I am glad that we were insured, because we had to pay also to repaint the ceilings and walls of the apartment under ours. Of course we had to throw the carpeting because it smelled so bad.
@much2say (55607)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Aug 16
We are only single story - and our little laundry room is located in the corner of the house . . . next to the kitchen . . . with another door that actually leads to my daughter's room! When we were living at the apartments, I got a workout lugging the laundry up and down stairs . . . so when we moved into a house, I LOVED having to go only a few steps to do the laundry!
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@much2say (55607)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Aug 16
@Marilynda1225 While at the apartments, I was pregnant with a run-around 4 year old . . . I had to take her and carry a big laundry basket up and down the stairs to walk to the laundry room. I managed, but still - I completely appreciate what I have now!
@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
Having the laundry on the main floor certainly is a plus. Not having to lug that laundry up and down stairs is a plus isn't it 
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
3 Aug 16
I live in a one story so the laundry room is in the house too. Some can be in be garage!
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
3 Aug 16
@Marilynda1225 That will be good ! No more stairs. :)
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
4 Aug 16
Only in warmer states can they be in the garage. When I lived in Hawaii they were outside on the lanai. Here in TN you can have your furnace in the garage, some have washer dryer there but we do get into the 20's in winter.
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
My next house will all be one level so that I don't have stairs to deal with.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
3 Aug 16
We have a ranch over a full basement. If the laundry had been in the basement we would not have bought this house! Since I left my parents home in 1969 I never since then had laundry in the basement!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
4 Aug 16
@Marilynda1225 Our first house in TN was three stories - laundry in finished basement and master br on third level - it was horrible!!! Way too many steps....
@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
This is the first house I've had where the laundry wasn't in the basement. It's so much easier for me with it upstairs by the bedrooms but my next house everything will be on one floor and NO MORE STAIRS
@AutumnSnow (4583)
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3 Aug 16
Just finished putting away my laundry,lol. We don't have a washer n dryer here but here in the complex they have a small laundry mat and we're pretty close to it. My two older girls help me and take it down and do them then everyone helps put everything away.
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
The main floor is convenient and you're not lugging up and down a few flights of stairs.
@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
Well I'm glad you have a hamper and don't have to throw your dirty clothes all over the floor 
@DianneN (247186)
• United States
3 Aug 16
Ours is located in a separate laundry room in our finished basement, where I prefer to have it in case of flooding. Our last home had a laundry shoot, but I didn't like how it landed all over the washer and dryer. Of course, it's on the one floor of our Florida condo. I consider lugging a way to keep fit and trim.
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
You always have a positive spin on it using going up and down to stay fit and trim. My knees are so bad now that they cry when I go up and down too many times a day
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
4 Aug 16
@Marilynda1225 It's best that you have your laundry room on the second floor. If I didn't go up and down all those flights of stairs, I'd be fat as a house! Lol! And so would my behind!
@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
3 Aug 16
I live in a one story house with laundry in a small room right next to my bedroom. In the past I have had them all over the house, including the garage and when in condos, down a hallway outside. The location I have now makes doing laundry so much easier and safer.
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
since the bulk of our laundry is from the bedrooms and bathrooms it's convenient to have the washer/dryer close by
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
4 Aug 16
@Marilynda1225 Yes, I don't even use a basket, just carry the clothes in my arms. So handy.
@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
wow having to lug laundry 4 floors must be hard
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@miniam (9154)
• Bern, Switzerland
4 Aug 16
@Marilynda1225
Luckily we have an elevator,there is no way im living in 4th floor if there is no elevator
@stifler0207 (514)
• New Delhi, India
3 Aug 16
I don't have laundry room. I have a washing machine in my balcony and my father used to clean the clothes.
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@xstitcher (32468)
• Petaluma, California
6 Aug 16
Our house is a one-story--and we don't have a "laundry room" per se--our washer and dryer are in the garage--with my father's tools and my brother's truck. 
@jstory07 (139717)
• Roseburg, Oregon
3 Aug 16
In the house that i sold the laundry room was in the basement. In this house we only have one level. the laundry room is a room by itself near the garage. It is big and has the freezer in there to and room for a shelf that I am going to buy from my online money.
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
It's nice that you have enough room for a freezer in your laundry room and can use it for storage as well
@Juliaacv (51193)
• Canada
3 Aug 16
We live in a rancher with a finished basement, and our laundry room is in the basement. So we lug, but I like that its tucked away downstairs because it would be too obvious with our floorplan if it were on the main floor. Our last 2 homes each had a laundry shot in them-that I loved!
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@Juliaacv (51193)
• Canada
3 Aug 16
@Marilynda1225 The farmhouse that I grew up in was huge, 3 full levels plus an attic. The shoot was on the main floor and it saved you from running down another flight of stairs to the basement, which is where our laundry was done.
@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
I never had a laundry shoot. One of the houses I looked at before I bought this one had a shoot and my grandson wanted me to buy it. he thought it would be so much fun dropping stuff down the shoot that all I could think of was the youngsters using it as a plaything and me finding more than laundry coming down the shoot
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
I guess we always wind up carrying something no matter how convenient it seems
@paigea (36317)
• Canada
3 Aug 16
I like when my laundry area was on the same floor as the bedrooms too. It was a closet right outside the bedroom doors. So handy. Now we have a bungalow and the laundry is on the main floor. The opposite end of the house from the bedrooms, but no stairs.
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
makes it easier when it's all on the same floor. My next house won't have stairs either
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@Marilynda1225 (82798)
• United States
3 Aug 16
Guess you are lugging things up and down all the time
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