Furniture for the washing machine in the bathroom

Today, only a few can afford to set up a separate room in their house or apartment for storing dirty linen and washing - a laundry room. The majority of people do their laundry right in the bathroom. Moreover, a washing machine, a basket for dirty laundry, and a cabinet for storing powders and cleaning gels are installed in the bathroom.

How do people manage to fit so many rather large elements into a relatively small room? Largely thanks to the furniture for the washing machine, specially made for the bathroom. It is this furniture that will be discussed in this story.

Varieties

To begin with, it would be nice to decide on the types of bathroom furniture for a washing machine, but problems may arise here, because such furniture is classified on a variety of grounds. For example, by the style of execution, by the material from which they are made, by size, by the nature of the placement of the washing machine, and so on. What furniture is usually placed under the washing machine in the bathroom?

• Cabinets. These pieces of furniture have a wide variety of shapes and configurations. There are cabinets with one compartment that only houses the washing machine. There are cabinets with several compartments for storing linen and the washing machine itself. There are even relatively large cabinets with drawers for storing cleaning supplies, razors, toothbrushes, etc.
• Sinks. These are well-known pieces of furniture, which are now often made to fit a standard washing machine. Installing a washing machine in a sink under the sink makes it possible to hide the machine from prying eyes and save space in the bathroom.
  

Corner sinks are now popular. There is a lot of space under them, which is enough not only for a washing machine, but also for storing detergents, and sometimes even dirty laundry.

• Countertops. Also quite familiar pieces of furniture for the bathroom. Modern bathroom countertops come with a sink and a compartment for the washing machine. Here, too, everything depends on the model. There are countertops with convenient drawers, and there are countertops combined with floor and wall cabinets.
• Racks and shelves. Fans of simpler furniture will find various shelves and racks for a washing machine in the bathroom. Such furniture will not hide your “home assistant”, but will provide a lot of space for storing various necessary things.
  
  

Advantages and disadvantages

We can talk about the advantages of bathroom furniture for a washing machine for quite a long time, especially if we move on to specific cases. Firstly, furniture provides an opportunity to store things that are impossible to do without in the household. Secondly, bathroom furniture allows you to hide from the eyes of guests everything that is not worth showing, for example, accumulated dirty laundry that you didn’t have time to wash. Thirdly, furniture significantly improves the interior decoration of the bathroom, creating an overall positive impression for both owners and guests.

With the help of properly selected furniture, you can solve a lot of practical problems to improve your home. For example, you decided to do your laundry, opened the cabinet in the bathroom, and here you have washing powder, a basket with dirty laundry, and a washing machine. A few movements and the wash is started.There is no need to go to the pantry for powder, and then drag dirty laundry along with the powder to the kitchen, where the washing machine could be located, and then just start the wash. Convenience and saving time – that’s what the right furniture in the bathroom gives us.

What are the disadvantages of furniture placed in the bathroom? The main disadvantage is the dimensions. Many apartments in our country have ugly small bathrooms. Therefore, the owners have to literally fight for every centimeter, gaining space for useful things.

Gaining space in the bathroom for good furniture, the owners install a smaller bathtub, or even abandon it altogether in favor of a shower stall.

Even the simplest washing machine must have impressive dimensions, otherwise a standard-sized automatic washing machine simply will not fit into it. Where can I get space for large furniture if the cat has cried in this place? So we have to abandon sinks and cabinets for washing machines in favor of compact shelves and racks. But a correctly selected beautiful shelf can improve the design composition of the bathroom. So, probably, the problem here is not in the disadvantages of the furniture, but in the choice of the furniture itself, and that’s what we’ll talk about.

Selection and installation

Despite the fact that many residents of our vast homeland live in standard “Khrushchev” apartments with standard bathrooms, some have far from standard ideas about the ideal bathroom. With the help of well-chosen furniture and other interior items, they manage to turn an ordinary little room into a cozy and beautiful bathroom that you won’t want to leave. But how to do that?

Firstly, you need to understand for yourself that when buying furniture for a bathroom for washing, you are changing the design of the room, which means that before making a purchase you need to think through the design of the room as a whole, so that future furniture matches the color and texture of the walls, floor and ceiling, conveniently located, etc.

And secondly, you need to understand that by changing only the furniture in the bathroom it is impossible to create an ideal design composition. It is better to “time” the purchase of new furniture to coincide with a major renovation in the bathroom, then the result will be completely different. By creating a design composition anew, you have more opportunities and chances of getting a great result than in the case of constant alterations.

So where to start? What is the approximate procedure to follow in order to achieve success both in choosing furniture for the bathroom and in creating a beautiful design for the room as a whole.

1. Collect all the bathroom renovation ideas you can. The more pictures and videos, the better. Don’t be lazy to scour the entire Internet in search of fresh ideas. Choose from the entire array of information what you think is best and most suitable for your bathroom.
2. Sketch a sketch of your future bathroom. Calculate what pieces of furniture and other interior elements will be placed in the room, how they will stand and what size they will be.
3. You will not be able to select furniture to match an individual sketch in a store; most likely, you will have to order the necessary items for specific sizes from craftsmen. But there will be no need to shrink in size or look for any compromises - all ordered pieces of furniture will fall into place without any problems.
4. When ordering bathroom furniture, invite to your home a designer from the company that will make this furniture for you.Together with him, think through everything to the smallest detail. Express your wishes to the designer and listen to professional advice and make adjustments to the sketch. If there are complex pieces of furniture in the bathroom, then draw a separate sketch for each item.
5. Having figured out the sketch and dimensions of the furniture, select suitable materials for them so that they are suitable for the bathroom not only in color and texture, but also in structure. Don't forget about the accessories either. It should be strong, comfortable and beautiful.

Important! For bathroom furniture, it is better to take waterproof material. Of the cheap materials, plastic is the most suitable, and of the expensive ones, artificial or natural stone.

Installation and its specifics will depend purely on the types of bathroom furniture. If these are several shelves, then you can definitely hang them yourself, without involving a craftsman. But when it comes to assembling and installing complex furniture, it is better not to experiment and invite an experienced craftsman who will do everything quickly and professionally. Although, of course, a lot will depend on your skills.

Review

Now we will give a few examples of bathroom furniture for a washing machine, which is currently sold in retail outlets across the country. It is not at all necessary that you will definitely want to buy this particular furniture; perhaps it will give you some new ideas, and you will order something similar from a furniture maker, but tailored to the individual parameters of the room.

LOTUS 120 is the commercial name of a furniture set that includes: a countertop with a sink, a roll-out cabinet, drawers, and of course, space for a washing machine.As you can see in the picture below, such a piece of furniture does not cover the washing machine, and does not protect it from moisture in any way, so you will have to be careful when using the “home assistant”. The average cost of finished furniture is $385.

Alicia 120. This furniture is a sink with a countertop, sink and cabinet. Both the sink and the cabinet are tightly closed with stylish doors, and behind them you can place a washing machine, a whole bunch of detergents, and even a basket with dirty laundry. The furniture is made of moisture-resistant material, and the body of the cabinet perfectly protects the washing machine from water getting into it. Average price: $330.

LOTUS 67. Magnificent corner sink with sink and double cabinet for a washing machine. The corner sink is equipped with a fairly deep drawer, and the double-leaf cabinet is so spacious that it can accommodate an automatic washing machine. The average cost of such furniture is $340.

In conclusion, we note that modern bathroom furniture for a washing machine is both a stunningly beautiful piece of furniture and a very important functional part of the room, without which it would be inconvenient to use. So our main goal is to choose the right furniture so that staying in the bathroom gives us pleasure and not irritation!

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