Home Improvement Memo-Query
Tom Enright
What's preferable:
Smallish kitchen + first floor laundry
Or:
Bigger kitchen with laundry in basement
I'm thinking about increasing the size of the kitchen by knocking-down
the wall between it and the laundry/mud room.
-Tom Enright
Bill Hileman
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Depends on who does the laundry and/or cooking.
If your wife does both, or if she does the cooking and you want to make her
happy, move the laundry to the basement. If she does both, ask her. She'd
be the one inconvenienced by having to go up and down steps to do laundry.
When you're done, please come and do the same at our house, except we don't
have basements in Floridar.
Jon Enslin
We moved from a home with a larger kitchen and laundry in the basement
to one with a mudroom / laundry room and a smaller kitchen.
I tell you, living in the north and having an entryway that you can
basically close the door and ignore is nice. In our older home we
were cleaning the entryway in the kitchen daily...and by clean, I mean
sweep and mop. Our new kitchen is smaller, but has wood floors (which
you really can't have if you have an entryway) and the corian-type
counters.
Without really knowing how much room you have, I think it would be
better to upgrade the kitchen but keep the mudroom.
Jon
the_andr...@yahoo.com
If you're increasing the size of the kitchen because you have guests
that congregate in the kitchen, it's a good idea.
If you're increasing the size of the kitchen because you cook like a
madman and need more prep space, it's a reasonably good idea (there
are other solutions).
If you're increasing the size of the kitchen because you want it to
look like those kitchens in ModernSouthernArchitecturalStewart
magazine, save your money.
The best kitchen for cooking has a compact work triangle. Not to
mention the hike into the basement for laundry.
Some of the gargantuan kitchens I've seen, designed, installed are
amazingly stupid. Most of them are showplaces, but not very
functional.
My favorite recent kitchen was my last one. We removed the dining
fixtures from the nook and put in couches and loungy chairs. It was
awesome because people could comfortably hang out "in" the kitchen.
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Ben Stewart
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I'd go with the latter. I am in the process of adding a much bigger laundry
room in our basement. Our house is only a couple years old, but they stuck
the laundry room between our garage and our kitchen. Clothes and baskets are
always in the way, but we've also got 4 kids so there is a lot of laundry at
our house.
I think a bigger/nicer kitchen will give you a greater ROI too (as opposed
to the 1st floor laundry).
Ben
Dave Reid
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> What's preferable:
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> Smallish kitchen + first floor laundry
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> Or:
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> Bigger kitchen with laundry in basement
Here's an idea: Bigger Kitchen, and move the laundry to the second
floor, where the bedrooms are.
I have a friend who did this...and it makes a lot of sense. Where do
you keep your clothes? In the bedroom....and where do you take them off
usually? In the bedroom.
Having to schlep dirty laundry all the way to the basement, and then
clean clothes all the way back up to the bedrooms is a pain.
dave
Constance Reeder
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> What's preferable:
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> Smallish kitchen + first floor laundry
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> Or:
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> Bigger kitchen with laundry in basement
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Depends on the stairs to me. If the stairs are not narrow
and steep, with plenty of headroom, the second one appeals.
If you have to contort your body while carrying the laundry
you will now have to trundle up and down, then the first.
Also, how do you (and your hypothetical wife) do laundry?
My wife does about 96 gazillion small loads and has one going
all the time. A basement laundry would make that harder for
her.
On the other hand, when I do laundry I wait for weeks
and then do four huge loads at once. There a folding table
is nice, so put one in your basement if you do that.
--
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Francis Bacon
Melvin Purvis
Bigger kitchen. BIGGER KITCHEN.
My God, what I wouldn't give for a bigger kitchen. If we can ever
afford it that's the first damn major home improvement we're putting
in.
Randolph M. Jones
That's a tough one. Who's going to have to haul the laundry, and how
much are they going to mind? I'm lucky because I have my laundry on the
second floor where all the clothes are.
But you really can't beat a bigger kitchen...bigger is pretty much
always better for kitchens.
I'd say go for the bigger kitchen and have a housekeeper do the laundry.
Dennis J
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Mud rooms keep the house cleaner... good place for litter boxes too...
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NapalmHeart
"Tom Enright" <freddy...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Do you plan on staying in this house when you are elderly? If so, do
you want to have to go up and down stairs with laundry?
Ken
Jim Weeks
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> Smallish kitchen + first floor laundry
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> Or:
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> Bigger kitchen with laundry in basement
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4000 sq ft kitchen.. that is all
jpw
Renata
Define big.
Define small.
Specifics, please (how big is current kitchen, and laundry/mud room?).
How old are y'all?
Any infirmities?
Kids?
Do you traipse inside from yardening often?
2 story house? Master bedroom upstairs?
Laundry doing style (as mentioned in a previous post - lots of small
loads, or ??)
Basically, looking for answers related to your lifestyle patterns (as
they relate to this query) and current sizes of rooms.
Renata
Va Beach Hokie
I'm all for big kitchens, but are you actually going to create usable
space? I've seen plenty of bigass kitchens with no more cooking space
than I have in my apartment.
David V. Loewe, Jr
<freddy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Think outside the box.
Install a dumbwaiter to move the laundry up and down from the basement
to the main floor and go for the big kitchen on the main floor.
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