Modern Laundry Room with Dream Home Decorator: The Sims 4 Room Building

[@nataliejones6816]

Washer and dryers in the kitchen is very very common in the UK. We tend to have a counter top with a space underneath it for a washing machine to fit.

[@yourhomophobicuncle]

Really? I'm British and never seen that. Mine is in a room that is only accessible through my kitchen.

[@vOID-fh1qt]

@@yourhomophobicuncle Probably depends where you are too. Under the counter appliances are in basically every house in the Midlands, I see it in the North a lot too

[@yourhomophobicuncle]

@@vOID-fh1qt I'm in the north. Never seen it. I have a dishwasher but not washing machines in my kitchen

[@vOID-fh1qt]

@@yourhomophobicuncle You're missing out

[@little.bear.98]

i grew up in the midlands so always had a washing machine in the kitchen, i moved to wales last year and my landlord asked me where i want the washing machine now, in the kitchen on tiled floor or upstairs on a carpet area? obviously the kitchen for me!

[@RicanStarz]

I actually have a laundry room now in my new apartment which is nice cuz I can close the door if I get unexpected guests. I can hide my unfinished laundry 🤣

[@phambread]

My laundry room's in my basement... carrying a big load of laundry up and down the stairs is a pain 😭 but the machines r in the open (Worst thing is I've been scared of basements my whole life)

[@bronyloverventuriantale]

Mine is in the basement too, honestly shocked me the first time I heard people have dedicated rooms for this/aren't in the basement. Can agree though, carrying laundry up and down the stairs is annoying but I would hate to have it anywhere else.

[@laurenimani26]

this laundry room looks so cozy. you could just hang out in there while your clothes dry

[@Cyraxxsneighborsstolendog]

My husband was really confused when he heard “it’s laundry week” he thought you were really doing it once a month for a moment until I’m like uh, it’s a sims video

[@s.elizabethowens8783]

I live in the United States and we have our washer/dryer in the kitchen! It's in a closet that you would think is a pantry, but it's not 😅 Pretty common in the townhouses around us in Tennessee.

[@mollyomoo]

My laundry room is basically part of my mud room.

[@simelly_6813]

Laundry is in the kitchen in the UK for pretty much everyone, unless you live somewhere with a communal laundry room, or you’re lucky enough to have a house with a dedicated laundry room. The washing machine is usually under the counter next to the sink, and then the dryer is wherever you have space. Our houses are pretty small so it just makes sense for us.

[@Luv4pookie]

The same in ireland too

[@monityme1343]

this room looks so good omg! in spain we usually have our washing mashine in the kitchen and even having a dryer isn't as common as in other countries (we usually hang our clothes to let them dry by themselves)

[@suan333]

Lo bueno de tener sol prácticamente todos los días del año lol

[@GothiccGoddess89]

I think the basement is a pretty common area for them (3 houses I've been in) or a small designated area off the kitchen/main floor bathroom to tie in the water easier

[@chaoticsad5549]

Or garage

[@JoeyWolfAngel]

In the kitchen, pretty common in the uk. When I was in uni/college there was a laundromat on the dorms, wouldn’t mind room just for laundry though. My in laws gave theirs in the hallway leading to their back garden along with the fridge

[@tokidokisimmer1750]

It’s common in Europe to have the washing machine in the kitchen. We ripped out a hallway closet to move the washer and dryer in the space that opened and then put a cupboard above them.

[@sarahcharif1627]

Its not common in europe. Its only in some countries. I live in belgium and we put our washingmachine in the garage. Some people have in the bathroom and some in a seprate room. But never in the kitchen. The only time i saw this was in Malta. I do my intern here, but Malta was a former colony if the english. They also have the same éducation system. Other than malta, it was not common in other countries i had visited.

[@tokidokisimmer1750]

@@sarahcharif1627 It’s common in Eastern countries and I am talking mostly about older apartments which are usually small and don’t have garages, pantries, wetrooms, etc. The bathrooms are not big enough to fit a washer that won’t get wet, so the other place with water outlets is the kitchen.

[@LinkOfLegendOfZelda]

​@@sarahcharif1627 I'm from Belgium too and you are right. Our washer is in a little seperate room next to the kitchen, together with our freezer and a second small fridge. There's also some cabinets to put house stuff and food/drinks away and a small sink (in Dutch we call it a 'berging', a kind of storage room). Washers are never in the kitchen by design in Belgium and it's very rare, never seen it myself. If there is no seperate room for the washer, than it often will be in the garage or in small houses/appartments with little place to spare the washer will be in the bathroom or hallway in a seperate closet. Would love to have a big whole room dedicated to laundry, but even in bigger houses here it's mostly not common. 😁 If only seen these kinds of room on American and Australian tv-shows, so having a room specific for laundry in real life sounds very luxurious to me, since not many people have them here. ☺️

[@plant_12]

As a Scandinavian, it's definitely not common here. It's either the bathroom or communal. I've seen one laundry room irl in my life and it was in the walk in pantry in some overly expensive apartment we toured.

[@billiemarierosado4038]

mine is in a separate room, but it’s also the same room we keep our cleaning supplies as well as our cats litter box 😂

[@-MrsG-]

We’ve had the W/D in the kitchen when we lived in older military housing. A whole room still feels like a luxury.

[@elorachambers9506]

It's in our entry room/mud room. We have a small house so it's super crammed in there. It's literally my dream to be able to have a whole laundry room with nothing else major in it. I'm so old for only being 17.

[@GabrielarCas]

Beautiful room! I live in Colombia 🇨🇴 and it is very common here to have the laundry room next to or inside the kitchen

[@HSTBell12]

Ashley: I dont know how to build a laundry room Continues to build the cutest laundry room

[@Judyy_14]

our washer and dryer is in the garage, i've lived in a lot of houses and i have always had them in the garage

[@gabrielasilva3561]

I'm Brazilian, our laundry "room" is usually a corner in our backyard. Or an extension of the kitchen if it's an apartment

[@Crvssii]

Most washing machines are in the kitchen in the UK, as our water pipes we need to connect to the washers, are in the kitchen. I think people just put their dryer in the kitchen too so it isn't a far distance to walk before getting to the dryer. :)

[@sgcrystalhealing]

A tiny laundry room! Also our laundry room isnt really a laundry room as my washer is in the kitchen by the sink, and my wash line to dry clothes is outside. I wish I had a little more space for a laundry room. One day I'd really like to have a front loader to have my drier (which is rarely used as we don't have a lot of electricity in South Africa) sit upon

[@the_dumb_enby441]

I'd love to see like laundry room mudroom mix

[@saoirse.x08]

That’s ac gorgeous

[@enlde7857]

Great room! It sounds more bizarre to me as a Brit that it has its own room.

[@Editz405]

I LOVEEE building laundry rooms

[@karliwinfrey2946]

Mines in the hallway. Way better than my old apartment where it was a regular washer and dryer shared by all 8 tenants. Had to pay to wash and dry. Running to the laundry shed in the rain sucked. Love this laundry room!

[@kiwifruitkl]

The Sims 4 allows you to do laundry by hand with a washboard which is great for energy-conscious households, and afterwards, you can put them up to dry on the drying rack 😅 The Sims 3 Ambitions comes with laundromats and laundry for the first time. You can use the washer and dryer, and you can also dry with the drying rack. No way to wash clothes by hand though.

[@ebonynight]

Laundry for me was always in the basement in my house growing up and also in my new apt.

[@Penguins_dingodingus]

I love the idea of building seperate rooms to help your skill in building, I have to try this with my bedrooms and kitchens. 🥰

[@quinoash7629]

Mines in the kitchen! Its tucked away in a little cubby 😌

[@TheShakedGuide]

This made me do my own laundry room in my sims home for the first time - it turned out soooo cute! Thanks for the inspo! It's not something I usually do and it was kind of fun to be creative with the "boring" rooms 😁

[@ERYN__]

Ours is in a room in between the garage and the living room. We like that it's another door to prevent our cats from getting outside, and if they did get out, they are just in the garage. It is similar to a mud room. We have a deep freezer that is for folding on or setting things on and unloading groceries into.

[@TaigaTomodachi]

I once had a washer in a kitchen, because the house was so small it didin't have space anywhere else. Other homes have had washer in toilets or near showers. Now I have a spacious shower room so I have space to have a dryer too for the first time.

[@celestebee0412]

We have a laundry room that also has our guinea pigs in it. So, we have their cages, a table, and the washer and dryer. It was intended as just a laundry room, but it has plenty space for the guinea pigs.

[@lillianetheelf8285]

Love this so very much. Bright and airy

[@littleschmoo]

I’m in the UK and the average household keeps their washer/dryer (most people have an all in one machine) in their kitchens. If your lucky enough to have a utility room (like my mum) then the machines (these households often have more space so will have two separate machines) are kept in their with other cleaning supplies such as ironing board, cleaning solutions and vacuum cleaner. I had an alcove space in our flat when we moved in so the machine lives in there with a bit of shelf storage above and then we put on a sliding door, so although I don’t have a walk-in laundry room, I can still claim to have a laundry room 😂

[@plaidsquatch]

laundry rooms seem like such a luxury thing to me, like the first time i ever even seen one was in my partner's parents' house and they're pretty loaded. i've only ever lived in old rental houses that had laundry hookups in spooky basements or apartments with tiny closets that just barely fit a washer and dryer or simply wound up using the complex's laundry room or a laundromat. in the duplex i live in now, our hot water heater is in a little utility closet out the back door so i gatta herd the cats inside every time i need to do laundry 🤣 if we do ever get an actual real life house that is ours, i will poop my pants if it has an actual laundry room. i like these little room series' you do, they're fun to watch and get ideas from- in fact if we ever have an honest to god laundry room, i'll use one of your builds as inspo

[@ahuman6901]

Ours is in the basement actually. Works well and honestly it’s life changing to not have to go to a laundromat or wait for everyone else in the apartment to not be using the few provided machines.

[@Jilatannies]

In the bathroom for me but I would absolutely love to have a dedicated laundry room like this one day even if just a small one

[@lizzieraugh]

This is so cute!

[@samanthaflanagan6409]

Wow, that is a posh laundry room. Where is the basket on the counter from? Laundry rooms (or as we call them, utility rooms) here in the UK are unusual. My house has one.. sort of, it is the corridor to the garage lol so it's narrow it has counters and a sink. Most UK homes have washing machines and tumble dryers in the kitchen or sometimes in the garage.

[@theultimateverythingdude]

In the Midwest, it is VERY common to place the laundry rooms in the basement

[@cookingkurry4384]

Canadian here, the last two places I lived they were located near or in the kitchen, others were in a side room that I shared with another tenant , and some had a community room that had washers and dryers.

[@victoriaharrison9607]

Washing machine is in our kitchen like a lot of homes here in the UK. I don't have space for a dryer so rely on air drying or hanging outside. I would love a laundry room (we usually call it a utility room).

[@rosevelvet29]

When u first walk into my house (a double-wide trailer), u walk into a small room, maybe 3x3 in TS4, to ur left there's a large freezer standing upright, & in front of is the washer, w/ the dryer beside it, in front of the freezer. To ur right is an archway into the kitchen, & the rest of the house

[@alexsama9055]

It's in the kitchen....yeah my washing machine is in the kitchen... that's how some apartments work...the previous apartment DID have a laundry room...I miss that apartment... it was so cool but my fam and I had to move out since it was a seasonal one....yeah only rentable during the low seasons of autumn and winter. I live in a turistic town so this happens a lot here.

[@MeGusta912]

My house was built when taxes were done by room and indoor plumbing wasn’t that common so we had the washer, dryer, and hot water heater in the kitchen when I first bought it and the first thing we did was move it all to a separate room so that we had more space for more than one countertop!😅

[@Walison555]

yes mine is in the kitchen! Very common in the UK! Welcome to British kitchen 🎉

[@GaryRoseCO]

Where I come from laundry rooms are usually in the basement, although sometimes the washer and dryer are in the garage. I've seen many laundry rooms but never one fancy enough to have a chandelier until now.

[@hotdilf06]

this could not be me. i’m not creative like thisss😭😭 i love this sm

[@bookladydavina]

ours are in the kitchen.. though we do also have hook ups for them in the basement (in a tiny utility room with the water heater and furnace..) and they were down there for a while.. though my health got to a point where the stairs weren't exactly safe for me.. esp if i was carrying things... so back to the kitchen they went... my health is back on the upswing and we are considering making some renovations to the basement and expand the bathroom in the basement and move the laundry into there.. so hubby can come in through the back door down there, drop of grubby yard and project dirty stuff and go straight to a shower... lol... will be a lil while before that happens though...

[@MrsBradford]

I'm British so my washer and dryer are in my kitchen under my counter, however, since living in Canada and returning to the UK, I seriously want a laundry room back 😂

[@NickiMills-oy1qn]

A folding table table would cool, too. My laundry is in my basement

[@SakkaraKirax]

It was weird to me when I first moved to the UK that most people had their washing machine in the kitchen, under the counter like a dishwasher. In the Canadian prairies, most people I knew had a basement and that's where the washer and dryer were. I lived in one place here that had the washer in the bathroom, but it made sense because the bathroom was much bigger than the kitchen. 😂 Also, having a dryer in the UK isn't a given. I've never had one here. You can dry things outside for a lot of the year and the rest of the time everything is on airers in the house. Really annoying, honestly.

[@abiconkle]

My washer and dryer are in a hallway off of the kitchen. There’s a half bathroom in that hallway too and a spare room I use for my pets.

[@samanthakemp460]

My washer and dryer is in the kitchen. I'm in military housing. My old house had a dedicated room with a sink. I miss that.

[@AlyCat2212]

Very nice room! My laundry room is on one side of our mudroom/entry room. It's nice because it's out of the way and the door blocks the noise.

[@CauldronBlessed]

Our washer and dryer are in our living room. Back when we lived in a trailer it was in this little hallway next to the kitchen in front of the back door 😂 now we just have to die in the heat or we have to freeze if we need to do laundry 😂

[@ejc1868]

I live in midwest US. Ours is in the mud room, I hate having my laundry room being the same room that everyone walks through to get to and from the garage, clean clothes and mud rooms do not go hand in hand. It’s becoming more popular for that to be the go-to-place to put laundry rooms (it’s weird). In our previous houses that were built in 1920s and 40s the laundry room was in the basement, which I prefer, I had room to put up drying racks and I didn’t need to worry about kids and dogs knocking my clean clothes around.

[@time_secondly4264]

My washer and dryer is in a room off of the kitchen, like you go into the kitchen take a left and you are in the laundry room. Keep walking straight and you hit the garage doors. It’s about six feet from the kitchen to the garage door.

[@cvam1527]

I have a laundry room that is sort of it’s own room but really it’s just an extension of our smallest bathroom. There is only a curtain separating it from the bathroom but it’s basically it’s own little room

[@rxzwl]

Right now I have just the standard washer and dryer in my kitchen but at my old house we also had them in the kitchen but they were BRIGHT cherry red and shimmery, and whenever they were done they sing a little tune.

[@EX0TICBUTT3RS..]

Super cute!❤

[@Ivy_the_therain]

You actually reminded me that I needed to do laundry

[@astridhannestad8323]

Mine is a laundry room shared with the entire building. Around 15 flats. You have a card that you can tank with money to use them and it’s around 1,5 dollars for a wash

[@kailvslav]

I've been living in an apartment for about a year (since I started uni lol, where I live we don't have dorms and it's quite common for teens to live on their own while attending college) and I still don't have a laundry of my own😭 I have to go to my best friend's apartment to do it, or to the laundromat. definitely doesn't help with my procrastination problem lmao

[@DeIuIuu]

In my house (British) we have a utility room that’s connected to the kitchen with an arch way (the utility room also has the door to the half bathroom downstairs as well)! :D

[@Slider3414]

Kitchen it’s very popular in the uk❤

[@NightToRemember0804]

In the house me and my family live in the Laundrey is it's own small room that leads to our house's side entrance. It is basically a closet area or mud room but I have seen closet laundries before or ones that are also the bathroom.

[@pernillekopatz4760]

In my childhood home we had ours in a laundry room, it is a little isolated from the rest of the house, at the end of a long hallway. But now that i live in a giant dorm, I have to do laundry in a laundromat

[@aribellex]

I immigrated from the US to the UK. Washers in kitchens were so strange to me, I’m used to seeing them tucked in a closet or in the bathroom

[@RainbowTrash06]

In the UK its very common to have laundry in the kitchen, some houses even have wholes I the cupboards to put the machines under, me house has switches on the walls which are specially for washing machines

[@nicolecampos4153]

In my country they're usually in a "cuarto de pilas" which most of the time is in a backyard or small ventilated room with a big outdoors sink included lol

[@1uv.rockstar.1una]

I have mine in my garage 😅

[@izeebox]

I put my washer in the wet kitchen and dryer in the dry kitchen, it also act as a warmer😃

[@crescent_foxx1014]

My laundry room is in my basement, in the same room as our furnace and all of that, though the furnace other stuff is kinda tucked away into a corner. The hose for our washer that drains out the dirty water isn't connected to anything though, so we have to keep it in the sink that we don't use. we always have to make sure that nothing is clogging the drain because we have had floods in the past.

[@NaishiYT]

I always thought it was weird the people had their laundry machines in their kitchen until I remembered that in this one house I lived in when I was like 3 had a washer and dryer in the kitchen 😂

[@MonsterUnderYourBed.]

We have a big laundry room near the entrance of the house. It's also a place with firewood and my cats' favourite place to sleep and look out the window

[@oliviarose836]

I live in the Uk and it’s very common for it to be in the kitchen, but personally I have a whole room separate for washing but my dog’s stuff is also in there 😊

[@amygarcia9838]

Here in puerto rico we usually do our laundry outside/in the garage!

[@Ane_the_demonnn]

Our washer and dryer is in a little nook at the top of the stairs near all the bedrooms, very convenient

[@cordeliam620]

My washer is in the cramped entryway and the dryer is all the way in the basement. Not convenient at all, but it is the way the plumbing is set up, so it seems like it won’t be changing anytime soon…

[@amandaolaitan]

My laundry room is a separate room with loads of space and storage. It’s off the kitchen and you have to go through the pantry to access it

[@Yvngiivy]

In the Netherlands usually people have a closet with their washer and dryer or a dedicated room. But live in a apartment and my dryer and washer machine are in the kitchen. It looks ugly but better then not having it right.

[@Catch-The-Ghost]

Mine and my husband’s apartments have all had laundry hook ups in closets, and either in or near the kitchen. However My parents’, grandparents’, and MIL’s houses have all have dedicated laundry rooms, but never near the kitchen. Strange, that.

[@CatMage1014]

In all of the houses I lived in growing up, the laundry machines were in the basement!

[@vvkittycat]

I have my washer and dryer in the basement.

[@Slikkeline]

We have our washer and dryer in our basement! My family and I moved into another house in 2021 and there was no washer or dryer! And there's wasn't any space anywhere so it had to be in the basement which actually isn't that big of a deal once you get used to it!

[@MarieSimsToo]

My stepmoms is in the kitchen - she lives in a 2 bedroom apartment. I don't have one at all or even a Hookup - I'm in a single bedroom apartment. My nanas is in the hallway - she lives in a 2 bedroom trailer. I've only ever lived one place that had an actual laundry room. It was a trailer and it technically had a laundry room but there was no door - just an open frame going into a very small room with only space for the washer dryer and a laundry basket. Maybe big laundry rooms like this are more for upper or middle class? My family has always been kinda on the lower class of things financially.

[@cassiescreations4694]

We have a small laundry room in the basement that’s just a few shelves, a trash can, a table, washer and dryer, and a bunch of baskets

[@korerietveld4797]

My laundry rooms in all the houses I’ve rented have always been in the basement or in the smalls room where the back door is

[@trixstix0910]

I have my "laundry room" in my creepy basement 😅 it's really just a washer/dryer at the bottom of the steps in an L shaped basement room, and the ceiling is quite low (about 5 and a half feet). I just don't like it because I never grew up with a basement so they're creepy to me.

[@mikimartines874]

having the washing machine in the kitchen is quite common in spain. we dont use dryers though

[@taravachon7366]

Mines in the basement with a deep deep sink which is pretty common to have.

[@IsabelRS93]

Mines is in the attic 😅 Damn, this is a very pretty room!! ❤❤

[@keirastauffer1198]

Honestly, I forgot that laundry rooms in the sims existed 😅

[@tweedlebug123]

Washer and Dryer are typically in a small room in the basement where i live.

[@IslaRoseMusic0]

In the uk we usually have washers in the kitchen either ontop of a counter or underneath it usually next to the sink

[@mythicalvisionary8394]

I need it. Mine is in my kitchen and I wish I just had a room for it.

[@-KawaiiKitty-]

I live in 2 houses, and one has the laundry room as it’s own room. The other has the laundry room in the pantry.