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How to Plan a Multipurpose Laundry Room: Tips for a Functional Laundry Renovation

Jan 28th, 2025
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Your laundry can often be put on the back burner when it comes to home renovations–it’s a place designed for cleaning, not socialising, showing off, or even walking through. But a high-quality laundry renovation can change this!

The right renovation can transform your laundry from a dark and utilitarian space into a modern and stylish room that is about more than just cleaning. In this blog, we’re going to discuss some ideas about how you can plan a successful laundry renovation, including what you need to consider when designing a multipurpose laundry space.

Laundry renovations don’t need to be hard–read on to find out more.

The Best Things About Multipurpose Rooms

Multipurpose rooms are a great way to make your home a more functional space and are a particularly good idea if you don’t have a lot of rooms to dedicate to different needs. Common multipurpose rooms include:

  • Living rooms with a desk to also function as an office or study space
  • Living rooms with hidden storage to double as a kids’ playspace
  • A guest room with a bed that folds back into a couch to also work as an office
  • A dining room with a side cabinet to help it double as a bar
  • A laundry room with storage and a door to function as a wetroom

By combining rooms, you can save space in your home while still having the facilities to do the things you love. Adding shelves, storage baskets, cupboards, and fold-out furniture are all great ways to help make a room more functional while still keeping it clean and stylish.

If you want to transform your entire home to make it more functional, rather than just a single room, it may be worth looking into a full home renovation service.

Looking for a professional to help? DPV Construction performs home renovations in Burwood, Camberwell, and Glen Iris to make homes more modern, functional, and stylish.

Planning Laundry Renovations in Melbourne

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If you’d like to renovate your laundry, you’ll need to do a bit of planning. A thorough plan will help make sure your laundry turns out exactly as you envision and help you stay within your budget and the expected timeframe. 

When planning a laundry renovation, start by following these steps.

Step 1: What Will Your Laundry be Used For?

Begin by thinking through how you want your laundry to be used–depending on where your laundry is located, it may have more than one use already! Laundries, if located with a backdoor to your deck or backyard, often function as a ‘wetroom’ or ‘mudroom’, which is the space between the indoors and outside where you can take off your shoes and any dirty clothes before entering the rest of the house.

If your current laundry is too small or you don’t have a dedicated laundry room, you may have had to utilise other rooms to serve its purpose. For example, you might have your laundry appliances in your bathroom if it is big enough. A small washer can sit easily on the side of a bathroom, and if you also want to have a dryer, stacking these appliances is a great way to save space in these types of rooms.

Laundries with enough space can also serve as a great storage area for cleaning products you’ll use throughout your home. Washing powder, delicates bags and stain removers are often found in the laundry, but how about using it to store your mop, vacuum cleaner and duster as well? Having one room with all your cleaning supplies in it certainly makes finding what you need much easier!

By deciding what role you want your laundry to play in your wider home, you can plan out a design that will allow you to achieve this.

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Step 2: What Appliances and Storage Do You Want in Your Laundry?

Increased storage is a huge factor for many people considering a renovation. Storage allows you to have space for everything you need and keep your things in a safe place where they can’t be knocked over or damaged. Plus, you don’t always want your cleaning supplies on show, so having a place to store them away can make your laundry look larger and cleaner, too!

Storage can be for more than just small household goods. Your larger cleaning appliances, like a washing machine and dryer, can also be ‘stored away’ with the right setup. If you want both of these things to sit in your laundry, you can hide them from sight with cleverly designed cupboards, a sliding door or even a curtain. Of course, you’ll need to make sure your washer and dryer are both front loaders, not top loaders, if you plan on storing them underneath a bench or stacked up inside a cupboard!

Other storage features, like pull-out racks for your spray bottles and containers, hooks for wet clothing and towels to be hung on, and hidden laundry baskets for dirty clothes, can all be implemented with the right professional design. Creating a multipurpose space is easy when you know the right features to implement!

Step 3: Plan a Renovation Budget

Of course, all the planning in the world won’t help if you can’t create a budget that can afford it. Here are some tips to keep in mind when creating the budget for your laundry renovation:

  1. Know the percentage rule: While it can differ depending on your situation, generally, a small renovation for a single room should cost about 5-10% of the home’s purchase price. For example, if you bought your house for $625,000, then your laundry renovation budget should be $31,250. This might seem like a lot, but as you’ll soon discover, a quality renovation has a lot of factors you’ll need to consider!
  1. Keep an emergency fund: Once you have a rough budget, take out a chunk of it to keep in case of emergencies. This emergency fund should be between 10 and 20% of your budget and shouldn’t be touched if you can help it. Keep it in case the project is running overtime, something breaks, or you need to buy new supplies quickly. If it doesn’t get used, then you can splurge on something else, like a new appliance or high-end fixtures, at the end of your project!
  1. Break down your renovation: Now that you know what you can spend on your budget, it’s time to get into the nitty-gritty of planning. Create a list or spreadsheet of the following:
  • Material costs (tiles, plaster, paint, sealants, glass panels and metal frames)
  • Appliance costs (washer, dryer or a fold-out ironing board)
  • Fixture costs (lights, taps, faucets, pipes)
  • Labour costs (plumbers, builders, electricians, architects)

By having all your costs laid out in a single document, you’ll be able to quickly see what you can and can’t afford. Feel free to put dream items, like high-end appliances and beautiful splashback tiling, on your list, but keep in mind you might need to downgrade if you want to stick within your budget.

  1. Can you DIY?: A bit of DIY magic can help reduce the costs of your laundry renovation, but you run the risk of a laundry that doesn’t look quite right or, even worse, appliances and fixtures that don’t work correctly. If you have the skills yourself but aren’t a professional, it’s best to use them for smaller things, like a bit of tiling or painting, and leave larger tasks to experts who can get the job done safely and to code.

Having a budget planned out means you’re ready to get the wheels rolling on your renovation! Start looking around for quotes from reputable companies who specialise in high-end renovations–a good team will take your budget and work with you to create a plan that will bring your dream laundry to life without going over costs or blowing out times. A team of desserts who have performed successful laundry renovations before may even be able to recommend style and storage choices you hadn’t thought of!

Trust DPV Renovations For Your Laundry Renovations In Melbourne

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If you’re looking for a trustworthy and highly skilled team to help with your laundry renovations in Melbourne, then you’ve come to the right place. DPV Construction specialises in unique, luxury renovations that create spaces our clients are proud to show off–and this includes the laundry!

We hold all the licenses and insurance needed to safely and quickly perform your laundry renovation. As proud members of Builder Elite and Gateway LLEN (Structured Workplace Learning), we can be trusted to create a renovation you’ll love.

To start the process of creating the perfect laundry for your home, please contact us online or send us an email at info@dpvconstruction.com.au and we’ll be in touch shortly. We are excited to start your laundry renovation and show you the difference our team can make!