13 Best Modern Laundry Rooms

The focal point of the sleek, white space is a glowing laundry chute illuminated from within by fiber-optic cables.

An organizing system keeps the laundry room neat and accessible

In this Toronto home, the windows of the combined laundry and bathroom looks out into a courtyard from the second floor.

With windows looking out onto the second-story courtyard, the laundry/bathroom area has a custom-made and a picturesque view.

Beneath the house, Adam and Awa find ample space to hand the laundry to dry.

Flanking the concrete wall is a carport and an entrance leading past a small, cedar-clad ancillary building for art projects and laundry.

The house’s small square footage also necessitated that the bathroom do double duty as the laundry room.

At the same time she annexed the trailer, Siegal opened up the master bedroom to include a new bath and laundry room. “The house hadn’t been touched since the 1920s—it had lots of tiny little rooms,” says Siegal of the home she bought in 2002. “But I loved that yard, and I thought, I could make this place really great.” Her latest addition is a two-story workspace where the garage once stood.

Finley rifles through one of the closets at the end of the living space next to the kitchen. The water-cut laundry-room doors and guardrail add a Houstonian touch to the otherwise spartan décor.

A perpendicular walkway leads right to the garage and laundry areas.

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