Laundry design: How to zone your laundry

The key when designing tour laundry is practicality. It needs to contain all the right elements to allow you to do what you need to, and it needs to be designed so that there’s ample room for you to work and move.

To create an efficient laundry design, it is important to identify the different ‘zones’. There are three main zones in any laundry;

1. The dirty area
2. The clean area and
3. The workspace

Each of these areas will differ in size depending on how your home is organised. The dirty area is generally a space allocated to washing baskets or hampers where people can throw their laundry. Consider if you would like your hampers hidden in a built in cupboard.

The clean area is allocated to clothes removed from the dryer or washing line. It is ideal to have a bench top to fold or place these items. Finally, the workspace is where utilities such as the ironing board, iron, laundry products and other related items live.

The laundry is possibly the most utilitarian space in most houses, and most people don’t really get a lot of joy from the time they spend there. All the more reason to make sure your laundry design if comfortable.