My favorite gal, blogger Erin Loechner is renovating her entire Indiana home. Each room that she premieres is just as stunning as the next. I was completely smitten when I saw her laundry room renovation. As an urban apartment dweller, a laundry room is such a far-off dream for me!
When I showed this to my man yesterday he said, "Oh, I would do so much laundry in that room!". We've always struggled with our laundry situation. We tend to live in 3rd floor walk-ups with laundry in the musty, dimly lit basement. This renovation by Erinis absolutely stunning. It looks so crisp and refreshing - the way a laundry room should look! It has such a clean and sterile vibe (in a good way of course).
Maybe someday we'll rent an apartment with an in-unit washer and dryer, although right now it feels like it's probably a long shot to say that. See Erin's full before & after at HTGV's Before & After: Our Laundry Room Progress.
Images: Erin Loechner
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Yes, it looks great. But isn't the word 'stunning' a little over used on AT (to say nothing about real estate sights)?
..um, is that a toilet in there?
I'm with CanadianCapital! Every B&A is waaaay over touted. Why not just say, "Check out this before and after!"
it is a toilet.
Why is there a toilet in the laundry room? I thought laundry rooms are where you take clothes to get rid of excess bacteria and E. coli...not add to it...
Perhaps they shouldn't call it a laundry room. They just put the washer and dryer in the bathroom. I have no problem with that.
Yeah...for this to be a "laundry room" that toilet should be a large sink for hand-washing delicates... It's a pretty bathroom though!
It's a bathroom, or a toilet, with a washing machine a tumble dryer, and 2 shelves. And no windows.
Adding some more shelves could we call it a pantry?
C'mon! I love the before and after, but this time it looks like a joke...
I smiled when I saw the toilet! Never thought I would see another place that has toilet in the laundry room again! Growing up, our home also had a toilet in our laundry room (don't ask me why, haha). My late grandfather always preferred that toilet for some reason. This just brought back so much memories.. =)
AT,
I agree with the previous comments. Please stop overselling your posts with these embellished titles. It's a disppointment everytime.
Good grief people - lots of bathrooms have washer/dryers in them. I have a stacked wash/dry set in my condo bathroom. I've seen many homes where the basement bath is large with one side devoted to laundry.
This is a very cute renovation. Nice job!
@greenkey, if this room was desinated to be a laundry room to begin with, then having a toilet in it is not an everyday thing. I think that's why people were a little surprised by it.
The before looks pretty much like a blank canvas; it certainly doesn't seem like a lot of creativity and out-of-the-box thinking had to go into the project. On a separate note... I would hate having a toilet in my laundry space (at least without any sort of divider?!) but those whitewashed walls really are gorgeous. I might actually want to do the laundry if I had those...
Careful with the critique - the Apartment Therapists are prone to removing comments containing opinions that aren't touting their stunning-ness.
Actually if you look at the before picture, there's a plumbing hole for a toilet.
Um, I see an iron, but where are the utility sink and ironing board? (Not to mention a place to wash your hands after using the sanitary facilities.)
My boyfriend's parents live in a house where their basement is finished, but split into 2 (kind of 3) parts: the living area, closet/hallway, and laundry room. Fortunately for them, since they have 1 main bathroom upstairs, their laundry room doubles as a bathroom, and it houses a shower, toilet and sink, as well as a laundry tub/sink. It also happens to have the main heater/cooling systems in the room.
Just because it's not ONLY a laundry room does it make this room NOT one. Saying that is silly. People can use their homes/spaces as they like. If AT posted a living room overhaul and it happened to open onto a kitchen/dining room combo, could you still not call it a living room?
I agree with others that this space needs more attention with a utility sink, board, and some cabinets. But it's a laundry room all the same.
I looked at the pics on HGTV and there is space for a sink on the other side of the loo, they just haven't chosen one yet. Whew!
Bathrooms with laundry facilities are not uncommon in Europe. It wouldn't bother me at all.
I think it's really pretty, and I like the reclaimed wood.
Yeah, I don't know what yall are talking about, I would LOVE to do laundry in that room. Get a fold-down ironing board, maybe on the right side of the toilet, and you're good to go.
Where's the step stool for accessing the items on the high shelves?
I'm all for the W&D in a bathroom but if this is a bathroom then where is the sink?
Why is everyone so hung up on the toilet?
I think it's beautiful, great job :) Love the walls.
In Jamaica the half baths include the laundry rooms and I hate them......no one is allowed to use the half bath. I'm all American!
Personally I think it would have been worth the extra expense to push the toilet right back in to the corner with a wall cutting it off from the rest of the room, then move the washer and dryer closer to the door. Having the toilet right smack in the middle of the room would make me feel exposed and frankly a little weirded out.
However those whitewashed walls are excellent. The love the simple Scandinavian aesthetic.
Hm, I bet the toilet seat is nice and warm with the dryer running....
Yeah saying this isn't a laundry room is silly. Is it a bathroom? Yup. Is it also a laundry room? Yup.
I grew up with a laundry room/bathroom (which, for the record, was never weird, although it was set up with the toilet in a little nook), and what it is called, at least around the house, generally came from whatever you were about to do/just did in there. If anything, if you're in a house with multiple bathrooms (which I assume this person is, what with the lack of shower etc.), then the one with the all of the laundry equipment isn't bathroom #1.5, it is the laundry room, since that is probably primarily what you're using it for.
Tough crowd. :) I think this is a lovely renovation. Clean. Bright. Organized. Nice place to do the laundry.
They should have labeled this "practical reno". There is nothing stunning about it,except maybe the loo!
The before/after effect is of course impressive because of the state of the room before. Overall a simple but nice renovation,
On a more generic note: what I see very often in before/after photos is the before room rather dark in very unflattering yellowish light and the after in bright, white, very flattering light - sometimes it's so intense that I suspect the after photo was processed...