I am watching a show on HGTV and someone just said that the washer and dryer should have been put in the garage where they belong!
HUH?!?!?!!!???
Ive seen them in bathrooms and hallway closets but never in the garage.
Am I out of the loop or what?

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Mine are in the laundry room... a small room off my kitchen

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Mine are in my garage. Many Florida homes have them there.

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Mine are in the bathroom. There's a little alcove behind the door which was set up to accomidate a stackable washer/dryer-perfect!

I don't think it would be very practical to have a washer/dryer in the garage here in PA, unless the garage was heated. It gets WAY too cold in the winter to be doing the laundry in the garage!

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Small (and I mean small) room off the kitchen.. big enough to have the washer on the left, dryer on the right, facing each other, space in between to open the dryer door. Makes sense to have them in the garage in Florida! They were downstairs in the unfinished basement/garage last time we lived here in GA, always froze my feet in winter... but glad I didn't have to worry about the heat during the summer. My grandparents in Vermont have theirs downstairs in the basement but they also have a wood stove down there. I think my grandmother tends to use a drying rack placed near it too.

In the "mud room" off the garage (and kitchen). I would prefer the laundry room upstairs with the bedrooms, but, it is certainly better than the basement (where my parents have theirs).

Mine are in the laundry room, but will be moving soon. I'm having an alcove added to one wall of the master bedroom just big enough to accomodate the washer and dryer. The current laundry room will be an addition to the kitchen (eventually). I think having the washer and dryer in the garage would be a royal pain. I've seen (and used) them there many times...mostly in Florida!

Mine are are the laundromat since we live in an apartment and there are no washer/dryer hook ups. Can't wait until we get a place of our own (whenever that is) and I can have my own washer/dryer.

I have a laundry closet off of my bedroom with a stackable washer/dryer. Used to be downstairs but it's much easier now since the hampers are all upstairs

Kathy

We have a laundry room. It's the room you enter into off the garage. I am in CO. When I lived in CA (grew up there), we lived in two houses. Both had the washer and dryer in the garage. Now that I think of it, I don't think anyone I knew had a laundry room in CA. I'm sure the newer houses have them now though

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We have a seperate laundry room, but it's very common around here (Texas) for them to be in the garage.....

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Same here - it has a sink, a counter & a small cabinet.

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Thats where ours are too.

Mine are in my first floor laundry room (off the kitchen). It was a requirement when house shopping, only first floor laundry for us.

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Mine are behind bi-fold doors in the kitchen,but when we lived in Michigan they were in the basement. I have a friend who's laundry room is on the second floor. It started leaking this year BIG mess.I'm glad mines on the first floor.

Mine is in my laundry room on the first floor--a walk through room between the garage and kitchen. I am in California and I have seen (and when I was younger) had washer/dryer hooked up in the garage.

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Mine are in a hallway closet
I live in an apartment

Mine is in a laundry room that is part of the old carport that was closed in so they used to be in what was sort of a garage that has been closed in. Many Florida homes have them in the garage. The slab for the garage is built with a one stop up area that houses the appliances. This is to prevent them from getting tapped with the car basically. It is usually at the door that enters the house.

I have never understood washer/dryer or water heater on the 2nd floor. Have you never had a washer line bust? Water heaters sometimes blow out a line or the pan underneath will rust out. Now if you have a 2nd floor condo, okay, I get that. I just don't get having a 2 story and electing to place those appliances on the 2nd floor.

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The laundry room is the entry room from the garage. Just large enough to fit the washer and dryer.....

Mine are downstairs in the partially finished basement, in a room that houses the washer/dryer, freezer and my bed linens.

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I havee mine in the laundry room,next to the kitchen

Mine are in the bathroom on the first floor. I wish they were on the second floor where the bedrooms are. That would be ideal - no more running the stuff up and downstairs and having various laundry piles everywhere. Maybe when I get rich and can have a mansion.

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Mine are in the laundry room/mud room/pantry between the kitchen and the garage. It is the smallest room in the house -- maybe 6x6 feet? -- but it has the MOST storage... I love it!

We lived in a smallish duplex type apartment for awhile and the washer/drier were in the front corner of the garage but it was planned that way. The garage was longer.

Mine are in my kitchen, and I HATE it! It is the biggest mess.

Someday, I would like them closer to our bedroom. If we build a house, that is what I will do.

I just cannot imagine going out into the garage to do my laundry!

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We live in Military housing here and actually have a laundry room that is upstairs which is awesome. It's about 8 x 8 room with one wall nothing but extra closet space. It's also big enough to have our exercise bike in there too. Both bedrooms and the full bath are up there too and it's so convient.

When we lived in Buffalo, NY, they were in the basement but the bedrooms were on the second floor so laundry had to be carted up and down two flights of stairs everytime I need to get it done. YUCK! But on the bright side, I had awesome calf muscles from going up and down the stairs all the time. LOL!

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Apartment dweller and mine are across the hall in the luandry/storage room. When I lived in FL, ours were in the enclosed garage. Its not so bad to step down a couple steps and go into your luandry room.

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Many houses in Miami have it that way. I am lucky mine is inside. I would never do the wash if it was in the garage! Just think how hot it would be to get the clothes out of the dryer in the summer with the garage door closed.

[quote=gloria28;2904884 I have a friend who's laundry room is on the second floor. It started leaking this year BIG mess.I'm glad mines on the first floor.[/QUOTE]


Our house was built in '59 and we have the traditional laundryroom in the basement, its own room. We live in a four-level split home, with 3 of the bedroom upstairs, so we get to go up 3 flights of stairs to put clothes away. Fun, fun but good exercise, I guess.


When my sister built her house, she specifically wanted the washer and dryer upstairs where the bedrooms were. I remember my mother thinking that could be such a mess if there ever was a leak. I don't believe they have had any problems yet, but that would always be lurking in my mind.

Can it only be warm climates that have w/d in the garage? I would think it wouldn't be possible in the colder climate with potential of pipes freezing.

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Yeah, DD and SIL are in the process of building a house. The walk-in closet off the master bedroom is 14 x 16 feet and includes an alcove built right in the closet for the laundry room. I am so jealous

Sometimes, in Calif, they are outside on a patio. Current house has a laundry room between door to garage and kitchen. When we built this house I wanted to use a small bedroom that is adjacent to the master bedroom and make it into a laundry room. Realtor, builder, husband all thought I was crazy. Now I know they were. I did have a drain put in the floor of the laundry room and I assume anyone putting their appliances on a second floor would do the same to avoid catastrophes. Boy I wish I had followed my own instincts.

Mine are in the basement. I absolutely hate that they're down there. I wanted hubby to move them up in to the bathroom closet, but he wouldn't because I'd be "losing storage space."

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From Texas and yep, they are in the garage. I HATE it. Our house was built in the 70's and that's just how they did it back then. However, all of the new houses I've been now have seperate laundry rooms. I would kill to have a counter top to fold clothes on instead of traipsing back through the house. A laundry/craft room with lots of countertops and storage is my dream room in my "make-believe" house.

I'm sure in cold climates it's not the norm to put your washer/dryer in the garage..it sure isn't here (NY). Unfortunately ours is off our kitchen. We plan on extending our kitchen and doing some sort of seperation where we actually have a laundry room seperate from the kitchen next year. We just bought this house, the house we were renting they were in the basement.

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Ours is next to/near the kitchen, in a laundry room
My younger sis' is located in the garage.
In one of the houses I grew up in it was also located in the garage. In another it was in a room right before you got to the garage.


That's similar to my older sister's. Hers was located outside near the carport. You'd go out the kitchen door that led to the carport. A few inches away is the gate that leads to her back patio, with a little area where the washer and dryer. Hers is an older house, in an older neighborhood.

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I grew up with the washer/dryer in the garage, and I'm in central Indiana, definitely not a warm-climate state.

Now mine is in the basement, which I hate. I think it's one of those things that you want what you don't have. In the apartment before we bought this house, all I could imagine was having my own washer and dryer. Then I got an apartment sized washer/dryer that hooked up to the sink, and all I could think about was having a real w/d and a real laundry room in the basement. Of course I'm not happy with that now.

I guess I should just be thankful I've got a washer and dryer, no matter how often my washer dies.

I have a laundry room, but it is near the kids side of the house. My kids do more laundry than most so seems it was a good choice. When I do my laundry and Mike's, my DH, it is out of the way.

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