High Ranch owners

Our laundry room is literally a closet and I can't stand it any longer. Its unfortunately shares a wall with the garage so we can't go out into the garage for more space.

Anyone else have this problem or do you have your LR someplace else.....

signed,
lost in the laundry pile

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My laundry room is in with the burner and water heater, so mine is tight too. I feel your pain. I have converted 1 of my garages into a playroom for the kids so I can't go into the garage either. I have just learned to accept the dungeon I call a laundry room.

Sorry...no good ideas here.

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do you have a basement? my parents have it in the basement

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high ranches don't have basements we have our washer and dryer in a teeny room with the hot water heater and heating... thing. we have gas heat so i don't know what it's called it is so tight in there and a pita. plus i'd love to paint but don't see how with those fixtures in there. sooo annoying.

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You've seen mine, right? Oh wait, the downstairs isn't finished yet But we're on our way

But it's downstairs against the back wall with the furnace. Closed room with a door. It used to share the space with the hot water heater too, but we put in a tankless water heater, so we gained some room too not having that big water heater in there too.

It's tight! Very tight. With the front loaders, when the doors are open, you can't fit in with them. Makes for some interesting contortions while doing laundry!

My saving grace is that we have the bedroom / guest room / office room down there that we keep three white bins in for the dirty laundry. Helps keep some sort of laundry sanity...

ETA: I know your downstairs well. Where is your furnace and/or hot water heater?

Message edited 10/27/2009 9:42:09 PM.

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My mother has a high ranch as a rental house. The W/D are in a little room that is behind the garage...its literally JUST big enough to hold the W/D.

Also, we took half our garage for a bigger laundry room...we never garage our cars anyway...sooooooo oh well!

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Is there an upstairs closet you can bump out to make a small laundry room or at least give you a bigger area? Near a bathroom or something so you don't have mess with really major plumbing?

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I have a Hi-Ranch. This is our laundry/utility room. It's big enough, but it could be bigger. We can't expand anywhere either, because our Family Room is on the other side. But we will paint it and fix it up the best way we can.

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i grew up in a high ranch.... the laundry room was attached through our downstairs bathroom. it wasn't super tiny but not huge either. i guess you could say the room was placed in the back of the garage (the way it is layed out).

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Ours is right when you walk in from the 2 car garage on te left. On the right is a double door closet. I guess we could swap the two but then we lose access to the storage space under the stairs.

I love the house but the storage situation is really lousy.

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We have a high ranch and our laundry is actually a very nice size.

When you enter the house and walk down the stairs, you walk into the laundry room.
Ahead of you is another door (which goes to our tenants' place...he has the back part of the house and just the front left side of the house on the lower level)
If you walk to the right you continue through the laundry room and then enter another room which is a den/office/extra room right now
Then you enter the garage off that room.

I'm not sure if this makes sense and if you can vision it, but the laundry room is pretty much under the stairs that go up and then extra room to it as well.

I can take pictures if you'd like, let me know.

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I have an in-line high ranch and my laundry room is next to the garage (inside the house). It's not large, but a decent size and I have the washer and dryer next to each other and enough room to fit a sink (although I don't have one). I would love some cabinets above the units and sometimes I wish I had a countertop on top.

I guess the room is like 8x6.

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Is that true that high ranches don't have basements? I thought some of the group homes I ran were high ranches and they both have basements.