Guide/Laundry & Utility

The small laundry that does everything

Two and a half metres of joinery, one hanging rail and a bench you can actually fold on.

18 August 20265 min readSave
Compact laundry with floor-to-ceiling oak joinery, limestone benchtop and black steel window

Laundries are usually the last room on the budget and the first room used every day. The fix isn't more space. It's using the height.

Stack, then go to the ceiling

Stacking the washer and dryer frees a full run of bench. Taking the joinery to the ceiling above it removes the dust shelf and roughly doubles storage. Both are cheap decisions to make on paper and expensive to retrofit.

Laundry with oak cabinetry, limestone bench, black hanging rail and woven baskets
A single black rail, one metre long, replaces the clothes horse forever.

What's in this room

Set of three lidded woven seagrass baskets beside oak cabinetrySaveSWS Find

Fold

Lidded Seagrass Baskets, Set of 3

$165

Hand-woven seagrass with fitted lids. Three nested sizes.

Lids are the difference between storage and clutter with a texture. Always lids.

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Brass & Stone

Wall-Mounted Mixer, Matte Black

$640

Solid brass body, matte black electroplated finish, 220mm spout. WELS rated.

Wall-mounting clears the bench and makes stone look intentional. Worth the plumbing conversation.

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Everything in this piece

Set of three lidded woven seagrass baskets beside oak cabinetrySaveSWS Find

Fold

Lidded Seagrass Baskets, Set of 3

$165

Hand-woven seagrass with fitted lids. Three nested sizes.

Lids are the difference between storage and clutter with a texture. Always lids.

View product

Brass & Stone

Wall-Mounted Mixer, Matte Black

$640

Solid brass body, matte black electroplated finish, 220mm spout. WELS rated.

Wall-mounting clears the bench and makes stone look intentional. Worth the plumbing conversation.

View product

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