ClosetMaid® componants from Home Depot.

Easy to install, screw in the uprights and attache the shelf brackets/closet rods.

Baskets available too. If you have room, I would build a wall 24" deep and add bifold doors for a clean finish.

What is your budget? Do you want a newly finished space with built-ins, or are you looking more for ready made pieces? Will the fridge remain, the cabinet and counters? Do you want a pretty space, merely functional, or both?

I'd have someone build a long closet along the wall where the table is located. Have them install deep heavy shelves.

I'd also make an appointment with Container Store for a free virtual design appointment. Even if you don't want to purchase their items you will get good advice.

The frig will remain and cabinet and counter out. i am looking more on ready made pieces i like your idea on the container store. a closer with shelves will be good.

You are lucky to have such a large space. I agree with the idea of a closet with doors that can close off the items. Be sure to include enough counter space for sorting and folding clothes.

I love that my laundry closet shelves can hold clothes baskets. That way I keep the dirty clothes ready to be washed. Think about how many baskets you need: I have one for whites, one for light colors, one for dark colors, and one for cleaning rags and other dirty things like gardening clothes. For this measure to be sure that the baskets will fit on the shelves chosen.

Good ideas above. Will the current budget include finishing the ceiling with wallboard or dropped-ceiling tiles? Will the wallboarded walls be painted, too? The photo below shows great storage along one wall with cheerful blue colors, medium color floors, and good lighting.

Two good ways to catch up when overwhelmed with laundry are to do either two loads a day or the whole kit and kaboodle in one day. Your choice depending on your schedule. Many people use laundry bins in each bedroom, then bring down *only one* load at a time to the laundry room that is washed, dried and put away immediately. A closet hanger rod is a great addition, as are a couple of 24" towel bars, one for hanging dirty damp things and one for clean drying things.

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i had someone come look at the basment and recommended a dropped ceiling and painting the cinder blocks

Things you need to figure out before buying anything.

How big is your family?
Are your children in sports?
Will you be able to bring up your clean clothes immediately to be put away?

My children were in sports and had busy schedules at school. It was basically sports, eat, homework, sleep everyday. No time to put away clean uniforms and clothes.
I basically kept all in the laundry room. I like you moved my laundry room to the basement. Everyone had baskets, hanging area, etc. easy peasy for me. I basically folded and hung up all the clean clothes and put them in the area designated for that person. Up to them to bring their stuff upstairs or not. Their rooms were always clean 😀
Their clothes never got up to their rooms and if they needed clean clothes they had to take their dirty clothes to the laundry room.

no small kids just teenagers wearing once and done. i just need to get organize. thank you

If you would like advice on teaching teens to do their own laundry, just ask in a separate post.

i need advice on how to create a nice functional room for storage everyone has great ideas

The pic that Patrica posted are ULine or Intermetro shelves. I forgot about them. We had them in our basement and stored EVERYTHING on them: ice chests, picnic baskets, luggage, oversized serving dishes, file boxes, you name it, laundry baskets. They are incredibly easy to put together - no tools needed, and super strong. They stand up really well to dampness, last forever. (I swear this is not an infomercial and they don't pay me.)

They come in so many different sizes too. A few places have them in green and blue. Shop around online because different places sell them for very different prices. They can look sleek and nice if you are going for a pretty space but are also utilitarian work horses and nothing too fancy should you just want practicality.

https://www.metroshelving.net/product-category/metro-super-erecta-units/

Those shelves are great!
I have picked them up at Costco, Home Depot, even Facebook Marketplace. Keep an eye out for a sale if you want them.

Good before and after video of Inter Metro / U Line Shelves in a garageHERE

These pics give you a sense of what size items you can fit on the shelves as well as weight. Books are heavy. I also like what they did with painting the walls and ceilings in this first pic. A nice alterative to drywalling that might be good for your basement too.

"just teenagers wearing once and done"

Many teenagers are becoming more environmentally conscious, and maybe yours would be open to making choices that reduce their personal environmental footprint. Excessive washing of clothes is a significant contributor to energy use and to the damaging presence of microplastics in our water.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/are-you-doing-the-laundry-too-often/

OP wrote: "i need advice on how to create a nice functional room for storage"

Steps:

1. Buy three U-line shelving units for the wall opposite the washer/dryer.

2. Sort through what you have: Bring in some big trash bags. Take everything out of the cabinets. Wipe or vacuum them out. Throw out dusty un-favorite detergents and worn out cleaning supplies. Donate any good things that no one uses any more. Clear off the yellow counter on the wood cabinets (bonus points if you have spray car wax you can spritz on it). Put the good favorite detergents over the washer/dryer. Many people find it much easier to handle a refillable 2-quart bottle of detergent, using the gigantic economy size detergent to refill it. Those giant bottles are often drippy when not straight up. Sort through the items blocking the window.

3. Remove the short table now that everything is sorted.

4. Put the things you want to store on the U-line shelves.

5. Consider buying a 3-bin laundry sorter on wheels or three new laundry baskets to sort laundry. They'll keep laundry off the floor.

6. Install a towel bar or closet rod near the washer and dryer.

Edited to add: if you want to make the short table more useful as a laundry sorting table, replace the legs with taller ones, then give it a coat of paint.

Thank you so much for the guidance. need this

This looks to be much more than a laundry room, you have pantry items, back stock, a rolling tool box(?), household items like paint, work out gear, etc.

I love the sturdy shelving units but they can easily go rogue and become clutter and chaos magnets themselves. All the loose items that are on top of the cabinets and counters now will be loose items on shelving units because not everything fits neatly into labeled bins. Open shelf units are better inside a closet.

You can build a large storage room at the back of the space and use it to stow large items like suitcases, the tool box and work table, bulk items, etc. so they're out of your laundry workspace. You may want a transom above the door to let light travel if it’s the only window.

Create a laundry/pantry space in the front section with closed cabinet storage, countertops, hanging rods. Finish out the ceiling, floors and walls and add personality to décor so laundry feels less of a chore. Get good lighting, make sure it’s comfortable with heat and cooling.

“they can easily go rogue and become clutter and chaos magnets themselves”

This is true of any space whether is is open or a closet. And it is valid for the OP to consider no matter what they do. Will you next irreration of this space become an expensive dumping ground? What could you put in place to avoid this?

If you don’t want to renovate to the beautiful black and white laundry room above, the follow @apple_pie_order’s advice. The clear step-by step instructions will get you to a more organized space.

I do think that teenagers can, and should, learn to do their own laundry. Having NOT been taught, I proceeded to ruin (i.e. turn everything blue) the clothes in my first college dorm wash.

Yes agreed. i plan some shelf or table opposite wall and bigger end of wall and make a closet with shelves. i am terrible at ideas

@RA you sound like a mom that is very busy being a mom! Stuff like this can feel overwhelming I know, but you got this! Consider getting the storage racks as suggested so you can simply organize all your supplies and declutter the room. If you prefer to have a closet too and paint the cinder blocks, go for it! Lots of potential for this space to also be an escape oasis for you!

I agree you need to organize all that stuff, figure out what stays, come up with a laundry system, and go from there. Let me know what works for you, I’m tackling my laundry area this winter.🙂