The Utility Room Planner: A Data-Led Layout Tool
The utility room is the only room in a UK home planned around a process rather than around people, and Furniture in Fashion finds that it works when the layout follows the laundry sequence without doubling back. Sorting belongs nearest the door, washing and drying in the middle, folding worktop at the far end, and the arrangement never feels right when clean laundry is folded in the path of dirty laundry arriving. Standard 60cm appliance widths govern everything, so dividing the usable wall length by that module comes before any other decision, with stacking recovering a full position in narrow rooms. Drying is the stage most often left unplanned, yet it determines whether the room actually keeps laundry moisture out of the rest of the house. Tall storage outperforms base units because utility contents are light and awkwardly shaped....