Small Laundry Room Ideas: 5 Space-Saving Tips
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Is your laundry room tiny? We are here to help you organize and maximize your space with these 5 small laundry room tips.
Whether you are living in a tiny apartment, or your laundry room isnāt as massive as you had imagined it would be, the struggle of a small laundry room can be felt the first time you walk in. If you live in an apartment, your laundry room may even be more like a laundry closet than an actual room.
Regardless of how you ended up with your small laundry room, we are here to help you maximize your space and make the most of your small room. Laundry room organization is achievable with these 5 space-maximizing ideas.

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Small Laundry Room Ideas
Let’s look at some ways to maximize the space you have for your laundry room. These ideas will work even if you have a space as small as a closet for your washer and dryer.
1. Use the walls for storage
One of the most successful parts of a small laundry room is your ability to use the available space you have on hand. This may mean replacing the amazing artwork for a place to store your supplies.
Hanging bins on the walls, or even a rack, to store your detergent, dryer sheets, fabric softener, and other supplies can help you utilize the wall space, and save the shelves for bulkier items.
What to Hang on the Walls in A Small Laundry Room
Here are some ideas of what you can hang on the walls, even if you don’t have much space:

2. Hang your drying rack from the ceiling
Instead of using your shelving area for hanging clothes or trying to find a place to put a clothesline, turn your ceiling into a drying rack.
Your laundry room ceiling is the perfect place to create a ladder-like drying rack that you can hang from the ceiling and allow those garments to hang without getting in the way.
Here’s a space-saving tip: hang up an old ladder from the ceiling for hanging up clothes or drying delicates. It might take up less space than a drying rack.
3. Add shelves
One of the main reasons many laundry rooms seem small is inadequate storage options. If you need to, use some of the wall space available to add additional shelving.
Use any unused corners to add shelving and keep lighter items and even decor on these shelves. Adding shelving can also help you maximize the vertical space in your laundry room and allow you to save the area above your washer and dryer for items that need to be hung.
Don’t just think of wall shelves, either. Consider putting your washer and dryer on a pedestal and putting drawers underneath.

4. Use baskets and storage containers
If shelf space is limited, consider corralling your items into storage containers and baskets to help keep things organized. This is also a great way to store bulkier items such as your iron, drying racks, and any other items that donāt need to be kept out all the time.
If your bins arenāt at eye level, remember to add labels to the bins to make sure you know whatās in each bin.
What to Store in Laundry Room Baskets
When you don’t have a lot of space to spare, keep in mind that it’s important to only store what you need in the laundry area. Here are some ideas of what you can keep in the baskets in the laundry room:
- Dryer sheets
- Fabric softener
- Mason jar for washing machine “treasures” (like pennies)
- Lint roller
- Trash bags for small trash can

5. Donāt forget about your doors!
If your laundry room or area has doors, donāt forget to use them to your advantage. Use over the door hooks, hanging organizers and wire racks can be used for additional storage that is kept out of sight when you donāt need it. If your laundry room does not have doors, consider adding a curtain or a room divider to separate your laundry room, and hang additional storage systems.
Angela, from Blue i Style, has a really small laundry closet. She installed shelves to her doors and that is where she stores her detergents and small containers.
What to Store on Laundry Room Door
You can store almost everything you need on your laundry room door, if you use the best hanging organizer. Here are some ideas:
- Laundry detergent packs – If you have kids, keeping them this accessible isn’t a good idea. But if you don’t have small children, you can store your detergent packs in a hanging organizer.
- Dryer Sheets
- Lint Roller
- Resealable bag for loose change and small items
- Trash bag for dryer lint
Whether youāre looking for more storage or just a way to organize your small laundry room, these five ideas will transform your tiny space into a well organized and functioning laundry room once again.

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Do you have any suggestions for a laundry room closet? It is a set of double doors that you pass that would be part of the kitchen. There is currently a wire rack shelf that I hate and can barely reach. There is no room between the washer and dryer or the doors will not open so no storage there. I would like to make it more functional and user friendly. Any ideas?
Hi Juli!
My name is Lisa and I am part of the Customer Care team here at Clutter Keeper. I am SO happy I have stumbled upon your question today, because in my old place, I had the exact same laundry room closet that you describe. I am still living in a small space now, so these kinds of organization questions are definitely up my alley!
For a laundry room closet, I understand the struggle in having a wire rack so high up (and I am only 5’2″, so the struggle was real in our last place). Recently, I have seen people building “faux tables” (so a plank of wood – almost like a floating shelf), right above their washer and dryer. The table would sit just above the washing machine and dryer and go from wall-to-wall. This makes a great place for storage and also, doubles as a table to fold clothes. I also like to make use of the side walls in the closet with either smaller floating shelves or hooks (you can hang bags that are filled with different laundry necessities).
If you’d like more information on Laundry Room Organization, I also invite you to check out this blog post: https://www.clutterkeeper.com/laundry-room-organization-complete-guide/
Happy organizing!
Lisa, Customer Care Clutter Keeper