Cathedral Ceiling Laundry Room

3 years ago

I did a search on google images for two storied, or cathedral ceiling laundry rooms, and I just did not find any. I was looking because we wanted to get our washer and dryer up on the second floor so that we can get a new, and much bigger kitchen on the first floor.

I don't need to have a cathedral ceiling per se, its just we got this odd room upstairs that was poorly built, and was hard to picture putting into use. But by putting the laundry room on the second floor, it will be where it is needed as all bedrooms are on the second floor, with a walk-in closet adjacent to it. All things considered; it just makes sense to put it there.

Where we envision this laundry room, must share a set of stairs going up to the third floor, so I thought about just opening up the ceiling and having it rise all the way up to the third floor. It would gain me a fourth window and be naturally lit, but with three windows already, that is not really a need. It would cut out some of the third floor space, but we are empty-nesters so we do not really need more room so robbing some from the third floor is no big deal. The only real downside maybe is letting heat drift up, but I am not sure how detrimental that will be.

I don't know; I just have never saw a two story laundry room and thought it might look weird. This is an old house that is more Victorian looking then farmhouse, but it must also look right too. I am not sure if a cathedral ceiling laundry room would look right though?

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armjim
3 years ago
I don't think a cathedral ceiling in a Laundry room is weird. Would you be doing it just to be doing it? Would it change the elevation of the house-will the exterior be changed in a way that is not in keeping with its original design? You say you may add a window but it is really not needed as you explained. Is it worth the cost doing all this, or would it be better to move the washer and dryer there and spruce the area up, and spend the money elsewhere?
3onthetree
3 years ago
If I am reading this correctly, the washer and dryer, with it's smells, noise, lint, and function will be housed in a 2-story vertical circulation space with what sounds like an open stair up to the next floor. Nothin better than coming down the stairs from bedrooms in an open to below situation and viewing a laundry area from there. And the echoes when you are up on that 3rd floor would help you know which cycle the appliances are in too.
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Travis Johnson
Original Author
3 years ago
@armjim

I thought I added a picture, but see I forgot, so I will add one when I am on a different device. But no, not doing it just to do it.

It is this odd room, and the way it was constructed before us, it created a really narrow doorway that means nothing can move from the end of the hallway on the second floor, to beyond. It's like half the house in inaccessible to anything over two feet wide. Having a two-story affair, with an open stairwell would allow bigger sized stuff like couches and the like to be brought up to the third floor. A closed staircase would be safer, but we need narrow loft stairs as this house is only 3000 square feet and we are pretty tight for room.

We did consider adding a turret/tower onto the house to have better access to the third floor by way of elevator or circular stairs, but that would be expensive, and at best, nothing we could do in the short term.

But sorry about the confusion on the window, but I will not be adding one, it is already on the third floor so it would just let in more light into the laundry area from above. No exterior changes will be made no matter how we do this.
enduring
3 years ago
Would you be putting the washer against a load bearing wall. I was instructed in my washer installation guidlines that washers need to be next to a load bearing wall so that it is less prone to bouncing on the joists. Think of trampline jumping when you think of a joist span.