Rethinking A Sink In Our Laundry Room

After which I had to make use of the IKEA kitchen planner for the laundry room facet of the room.

As regular, I bought plenty of nice suggestions about that plan, a few of which I’ve already integrated right into a revised plan. However I don’t keep in mind anybody saying something in regards to the sink. However over the weekend, I began questioning why on the planet I used to be placing a sink on this room.

I assume after I suppose “laundry room”, I robotically skinny of a sink in that room. I feel that Pinterest and Instagram have programmed that manner since all of those new laundry rooms appear to have sinks in them. So after I began designing the laundry room facet of this room, I simply went into autopilot mode and put a sink in there.

However why? This previous weekend, as I used to be reviewing the plans and making tweaks right here and there based mostly in your enter, I beginning questioning why on the planet I assumed I wanted a sink on this room. If it’s probably not wanted, then that sink is taking over helpful cupboard space or helpful countertop area.

So I polled my Fb web page and requested if a sink within the laundry room is critical. Lots of people mentioned no, particularly in a laundry room/closet area like I’m planning. However so many individuals mentioned YES! Once I requested what they use it for, right here had been the responses:

to presoak an merchandise of clothes,
to clean hand washables,
to clean out paint brushes,
to wash the canine,
to wash up after gardening,
to empty mop buckets,
to wash the pet dishes,
to wash yard instruments,
to wash massive gadgets like coolers,
to wash sneakers,
to fill watering cans for watering home crops,
to wash brass or silver,
to clean greens from the backyard,
to wash/thaw seafood,
to dye cloth,
to use hair coloration,
to chop and prepare flowers,
to soak outsized pans after entertaining,
to thaw a turkey,
to fill with ice and drinks when entertaining,
to wash up after doing automobile restore,

I’m certain there have been just a few that I missed, however you get the purpose. And apart from the primary merchandise on that checklist, the remaining are issues that I’d by no means, ever do in a laundry room that shares area with my garments and sneakers. And even the primary merchandise, presoaking an merchandise of clothes, isn’t one thing I do. I can’t even keep in mind the final time I presoaked an merchandise of clothes earlier than washing it. Possibly I’m doing laundry incorrect. 😀

Essentially the most I ever do is spray an merchandise of clothes with a stain elimination spray, throw it within the washer, let it sit there for a bit whereas I am going do one thing else, after which come again later to start out the wash cycle. That’s as in depth as my prewash/presoak routine will get. And I’m manner too brief on time to purchase garments that must be hand washed. If one thing can’t make it by a wash cycle, it doesn’t make it into my closet. Even the uncommon merchandise that I purchase with out noticing that the label says “hand wash solely” will get tossed into a fragile cycle, and I simply hope for the very best.

So all of that to say that I don’t want, and gained’t be placing a sink on the laundry room facet of our laundry room/closet combo. If I had been making a devoted laundry room that might even be a utility room, and particularly one which had direct entry from the again yard, I’d completely add a sink. However in our case, it simply appears odd.

I’ve been fascinated about the place I can add a utility sink to my studio, although. That was a suggestion that a lot of you made. I sort of wrote it off initially as a result of my studio goes to be so near the brand new kitchen. I thought-about including a sink (or fairly maintaining a sink) within the space that would be the walk-through pantry that can join the again doorways of the studio to the kitchen (on the precise facet of the ground plan under).

That space is presently a toilet, so it already has the required plumbing for a sink. However I sort of hate to take up a lot of that area for a sink when it may be used for storage for issues that I need simply accessible to the kitchen.

So now what I’m pondering is that when the door from the present breakfast room into the studio is closed up, I’m transfer my paint swatch cupboard to that wall. (It suits completely, as if it had been made to go there.) I couldn’t discover a current image of the entire space (and I gained’t take any new full-view footage till the room is totally completed, which is able to most likely be this weekend), however you’ll be able to see on this outdated image what I’m speaking about. So as a substitute of it sitting the place it’s under, I’ll simply transfer it to the wall to the left, masking the world the place the door is true now. It’ll sit simply to the precise of my massive framed panorama design.

After which that can go away me some room for a utility sink. And once more, because the space simply on the opposite facet of that wall is presently a toilet, that implies that the plumbing could be very simply accessible, so it shouldn’t be a giant deal to place a sink proper there.

However I feel y’all are proper. I undoubtedly want a sink both within the studio or very close to the studio. However I undoubtedly don’t suppose I would like a sink within the laundry room/closet combo. Simply so long as I’ve a utility sink someplace, I feel that’s all I would like, and the studio makes a complete lot extra sense for that.

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