my favorite is the one with the freshly laundered cats. Cute!

I like the white one with touches of green. (Oh, wait, all of them are white with touches of green.)

I love them all, seeing as my laundry is in my icky garage! I lease so mine can only be so nice. I guess mine would be under the "rustic" category. So to me, these are clean and beautiful, I can't say anything bad.

Ha! Where i live (inner Sydney) you're lucky if you even have room for a washing machine in the kitchen. I kindof like them, but most of them are a bit... beyond. I mean, it's a laundry room, for heaven's sake.

My laundry is a converted closet. What a luxury to have the space for doing the wash.

I wonder how many apartment therapy readers actually have a laundry room.

Small rental spaces often means no dining room or bedroom, forget about a whole room just for laundry.

Laundry Machines get there own rooms? Neat idea! Imagine having space for a whole room devoted to laundry doing!
My machines are stacked and in the bathroom. I'm lucky to even have my own machines, lots of suites in my building don't.
A whole room of their own! Those rooms are all bigger than my kitchen!

So uh, where are the clothes??? On any given day my laundry room (which is very small) has two to five loads of laundry either waiting to be done, waiting to be folded, or folded and waiting to be put away. Two little kids, a husband, and a dog make it so that I could do nothing but laundry all day and never be caught up. It also makes organizing the space impossible. Believe me, I've tried.

Lovely spaces, totally unrealistic presentation. I want to see these when there is actual laundry being done (not staged orange polka dot sheets that coordinate with the wall color).

I'll file this in the "dream space" file.

I kinda agree with WendyJ: unrealistic, but beautiful nevertheless.

I'm moving in three months in a house with a laundry behind the kitchen. It has no window (though the air circulation is ok), so right now, I'm concentrating of finding solution to make it more bright. I know it's just a laundry room, but it's where I'll be ironing, which mean spending 2-3 hours a week in there.

This article is good inspiration: I'm planning on using an Ikea counter top, plus cheap but sturdy metal frames underneath. The dirty clothes are stacked in the bedroom's closet, and I plan on hanging the freshly laundered ones overhead.

I'm so happy that rooms not accessible to visitors get the design treatment. It's not because people can't see them, not because we don't spend much time in there, that they can't be beautiful too...

My house is currently on the market and one of the things I'm going to miss most about it is its wonderful laundry room. It is a step down off the kitchen and is the brightest room in the house with a south window and a west window. How my little 1950s rancher got lucky enough to have a 10x12 laundry/utility room is beyond my understanding. It houses not only the washer/dryer, but also the furnace. Both are tucked away into opposite corners and so are not easily viewed from the kitchen itself. We replaced the old hollow core door with a lovely 15 light french door. On the opposite wall, we built 65 linear feet of shelving giving me a huge pantry just off the kitchen. We also ripped out the old linoleum and replaced it with bright citrus-y VCT tiles in yellow and orange. I just love it. One of these days, I'll update my flickr site and add some pics. While my laundry room is not anywhere near as glamorous as these, it is a sunny, pleasant room that does tripple duty as a laundry room, utility room, pantry, and mudroom, I guess that is quadruple duty.

Me too. I miss my laundry room (although it was never organized as beautifully as there). The laundry closet in the hall is just not the same thing. Of course, the laundry closet is much neater and better organized that when I had a separate room that I could just shut off and ignore the mess. Oh well, it's all about the compromises...

My main problem with keeping caught up with laundry is the fact that I have to do it in a dark and dusty dungeon of a basement. I lust after a laundry room that's as nice as the rest of the house. Someday... =) For now, I'll have to make due with a fresh coat of paint in there. Laundry shares a room with the furnace and all the other ugly bits of the house. It's kind of hard to make that room beautiful.

I love the first one. It's like the size of a real kitchen, Unforutnately I am in a rental so I don't even have en suite laundry - I need to treck to the basement of my apt to get anything done and hope one of the 5 washers and dryers is available for my usage (5 washers, 5 dryers for 11 floors, 7 suites per floor).

Cats in the laundry? Gross. Who wants cat hair all over their clean laundry?

I love these! I wish I had a nice organized space to do laundry. We are lucky to have a laundry space in our hosue, but its in the dingy old basement and not like this! I will have to use the inspiration to try and spruce the place up!

http://www.makemineeclectic.wordpress.com

My favorite is the one with the blue tile and chartreuse walls. I would soooo much like to have a real laundry room. One of these days....

We have a nice laundry room with a closet and cabinets, but we have to keep our litter box in there too. So to answer the "grossness" question, in our case the laundry goes in, the laundry comes out, and it is whisked away to another room to be folded and put away. There is no hanging things up to dry or folding clothes in the laundry room.

Right now our litter box is under the utility sink (and open to the room), but pretty soon we are going to put it into the closet and cut a kitty access hole in the side under the sink where you can't see it. Inside the closet we are going to install a solid shelf that fills the entire space, with a bit of a gasket where it will touch the closed door on the inside. That way, the rest of our stuff will stay clean and non-stinky. It won't be used as a linen closet or anything though - just for storing household products and such.

Of course most of these are unrealistic. STAGING.

And to think people are wasting precious space on a room. For just laundry.

neat, we have a laundry room a few steps away from our kitchen its great that i can cook and do laundry at the same time I like the set up of the 9th picture we have the same washer & dryer in white but side to side this picture has motivated me to have my hubby stack them for me for more space, our laundry room also has our pantry in it so it isn't wasted space for us.

Hahahaha... I agree these are unrealistic but great to look at. Anyone I know with a home and kids and pets has their laundry room/mud room floors littered with sports equipment, winter coats, dog beds and toys... etc. etc... I guess they'd need another room to store all those things. My laundry room is the Chinese place around the block.

Agreed triedthistwice!

Ha! I'd like to meet more than half a dozen people who got lucky enough to have a laundry room in their apartment (since this is called apartmenttherapy, not housetherapy). It would be wonderful to dedicate a room for laundry, but honestly it's not usually worth the space you'd have to give up.

I agree these are some superfly, dreamy rooms, but how can I make my laundry closet in the hallway better?! (and not spend a bajillion on it) :)

I'd love to see some space saving ideas like fold-down ironing boards or folding tables, good (aka well designed, easy to clean, and functional) storage for supplies, and ideas for sound minimization. The folding closet doors don't do a lot to keep the spin cycle from interrupting my HGTV watching.

And how about some integrated 'green' ideas? Wall-mounted, collapsible drying racks anyone?

Not that I don't drool at these though...

uglyisbeautiful: You clearly don't have a pet. If you own cats (or dogs), their fur is going to end up on your clothing sooner or later.

These rooms are beautiful. They're definitely unrealistic, but more in terms of aesthetics. I used to live in a big (top floor of the building) 3BR apartment in Philly that had its own (fairly spacious) laundry room. It was sooo convenient. We made a folding table out of an old door and some IKEA legs and tucked the cat litter box beneath it. We could also store our cleaning supplies and garbage and recycling there (since there wasn't a dumpster for the building).

I'd love to have a laundry area in my apartment again. I hate going down six flights of steps to do a few loads. I also inevitably will drop a clean sock or pillowcase on the gross basement floor while hauling my stuff out of the machines. Sigh.

I wrote a piece for the Tampa Tribune about a year ago called the New American Laundry Room. It covered the emergence of this utilitarian space into the design world, and inspired me to decorate my own laundry, to make wash day a bit more delightful.

This week, I returned to the subject with a blog posting on affordable updates for your laundry room, the latest in my Style List series.

http://jgkitchens.blogspot.com/2009/06/style-list-4-150-max-laundry-room.html

One of my favorite finds was the only pretty laundry faucet I've ever seen -- Belle Foret's French Country Faucet. Can't wait to buy it for Casa de Goldberg!