I get that. For gosh sakes, people pay SO MUCH money for housing out here, I get it. Now, those of you who are not in the Bay area, imagine this: I found a listing for a home in my neighborhood today: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,800 square feet, swimming pool: $900,000. Four bedrooms in 1,800 square feet? Can you imagine how small those things are? And yeah, it has a pool, but even here you can only use your pool May-September. And chances are, since there's a pool, there is virtually NO additional back yard space.
So the laundry room is in the garage. Unless you're independently wealthy, have a very new home, or are just plain lucky.
Without further ado, I bring you photos of my laundry rooms: washer in the garage, and (Sarah, I feel your porch laundry room pain), dryer in the carport.
And Californians, in the midwest it is entirely too cold to have laundry facilities in the garage 6 months out of the year. Plus there's that whole "garage is man's territory" bullshit that I take exception to in principle but wholly support in real life. So in Rochester, my laundry room is in the basement. I'm okay with that. However, if we ever build a home the laundry room will be on the upper floor where the kids' bedrooms are. I'm contemplating installing coin- operated laundry, in fact. Wouldn't my kids love that: "Not only are you responsible for your own laundry from now on, you have to pay for each load."
Oh look...you already said that. That's what I get for reading backwards.
ReplyDeleteOne more downfall for the MN garage, at least MY garage anyway, is the sand...the insidious sand that accumulates after driving around in snow and slush all winter. I have taken to shop vac-ing the stuff, it's just too time consuming and dusty to sweep it anymore. (For the CA people who don't do snow...the sand goes on the streets to provide traction when it's slick. However, it doesn't stay on the street, it comes home on the boots and tires and generally is a big pain for the entire spring and summer until Oct when we start all over again.)
When I was a kid our washer and dryer were upstairs (second story) because our house had once been divided into apts and then my parents converted it back, but left the water and gas hookups from the former kitchen, which then became the laundry room. My lucky mother had a 11x11' ROOM to do her laundry in, right across the hallway from the bath and all our bedrooms. We eventually put our computer in there and a spare twin bed, but mostly it was just for laundry. Amazing no?
Rock on sister. Can I send Michael to you to do his loads??
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