First an apology, I know this has taken a while to get to you - I’ve had a lot of emails, messages and notes asking me when I’d be sharing it. It’s been a busy few weeks, but finally it’s here. It’s quick, because despite the amount of time it took to create, the new laundry room is a pretty small space.
Those of you who have been following along will remember that the space that is now our laundry room was actually two walk in storage cupboards that we could only access from outside of the house. One used to be an outside loo and the other was just a storage room. They’d housed our old fridge-freezer and an ancient chest freezer for the last six years, but to get to them we had to continually go outside in all weathers, at all times of day. It wasn’t an ideal use of space.
Our original plan was simply to tidy these outside rooms up, move the washing machines and tumble dryers in and keep on accessing them from the outside. Once we cleared the two rooms out though, we realised that things were a little tighter than we’d planned, and while all the appliances fitted, the space wasn’t going to be workable. I’d be scraping my knuckles on the wall every time I lifted a basket of laundry.
When we first discussed this room we’d talked about sacrificing one of the larder cupboards in the kitchen to create a doorway and open up access to the storage rooms from the inside. I dismissed it because I didn’t want to lose the storage space and Tim dismissed it because he didn’t want the hassle of taking down walls.
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