A room that has good ergonomics (the study of best workplace flow), will account for all the tasks that need to be utilised in this room.
First, you need to be able to see what you need to do, so task lighting and space planning go hand in hand.
Where you will fold laundry will need good light, (a window if you are lucky during the day, recessed spots above at night) or where you need to look through laundry products. Clever laundry storage ideas cut on back work: if you fold sheets from the dryer, then make sure your airing cupboard storage is next to you the dryer, so it’s one swift movement to lift from the machine, fold and place on the shelf where it lives until needed.
Same works with a stacking washing machine on top of a dryer, where heavy wet clothes can be slipped swiftly into the machine below.
Utility room storage ideas often have a slightly broader set of requirements from hoarding wet weather gear, hockey kit, spare parts for your bike or garden tools. Again, putting the shoe storage closest to the door or the cricket bats on big pull-out drawers rather than in cupboards from which they clatter out, will prevent dragging mud or heavy kit around with no win.
Small space planning is not about wanting to make it seem larger but more about the pleasure of a practical design that works
