25 Small Laundry Room Ideas with a Top Load Washing Machine (2024)

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  Hide With a Beaded Curtain

  

  A Beautiful Mess added wall-mounted open shelving above this top load washing machine to keep laundry essentials at arm's reach without interfering with opening and closing the machine. The same forest green and bright white color scheme and flooring is carried through to the adjacent kitchen for visual continuity, and a wood bead curtain hides the laundry room without a cumbersome door.

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  Add Custom Cabinetry

  

  In this laundry room makeover from Melissa Roberts Interiors, cabinetry and walls were painted in the same shade of white, a vertical chevron patterned glass tile backsplash was carried all the way up to the ceiling, and custom cabinetry houses storage and conceals plumbing and electrical hookups.

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  Galley Style

  

  Blogger Carissa from Bless This Nest transformed her small galley-style laundry room with fresh blue paint on walls and cabinets, swapped out the florescent lighting for an inexpensive chandelier, added open shelving with decorative wall brackets and created a DIY thrift store wooden ladder drying rack by adding hooks and attaching it to wall studs.

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  Modern Farmhouse Style

  

  This small laundry room makeover from Cherished Bliss included adding warm gray cabinetry above the washer and dryer and a chunky wood shelf to store everyday items and help conceal plumbing connections. A painted faux mosaic tile floor stencil adds a decorative note, and a letterboard sign above the washer keeps it real.

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  Conceal With Cabinet Doors

  

  This top load washer dryer combo hidden behind a stained wood cabinet from Marie Flanigan Interiors creates an efficient laundry corner in a guesthouse that fades into the background when not in use.

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  Decorate the Walls

  

  This laundry room makeover from Stay Home Style was a quarantine DIY project that added function and style to a small laundry room. Blogger Ashley Whatley used a one-inch brush to create a matte black brushstroke pattern on the wall behind the top load washing machine as an easy affordable alternative to hanging wallpaper. Then she added stained pine shelving to create wall-to-wall storage that maximizes the small space.

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  Industrial Style

  

  A Beautiful Mess chose a free-standing stainless steel sink for this industrial-style laundry room. Since this is a pass-through space connected to the garage and a powder room, the same black, white, and green color palette is carried throughout the house. The top load washer, dryer, sink, ceiling-height cabinetry, and drying rod maximize space on a single wall.

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  Use Traditional Colors

  

  This small laundry room from Pizzale Design Inc. uses a traditional color palette of brown and gray, with stainless steel appliances and two types of tile on the backsplash and flooring to add variation.

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  Incorporate Personal Touches

  

  Blogger Kathy Baugher of Up to Date Interiors used leftover paint and wallpaper to give her laundry room an easy DIY makeover. She mixed her own paint color to match the wallpaper, adding wall-to-wall cabinetry and a floating shelf to display sentimental decor objects relocated from elsewhere in the house, including a vintage basket and gold box from her grandmother.

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  Hang a Pendant Light

  

  This petite and polished laundry room from Charbonneau Interiors has a top load washing machine, marble effect quartz countertops and matching backsplash, gold hardware, dark blue cabinetry, and a globe pendant light that hangs in front of the arched window to add some glamour.

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  Install a Peel and Stick Tile Backsplash

  

  Lydi Out Loud gave her tiny laundry room some love with a peel-and-stick subway style wall tile backsplash and a mix of open and closed storage that adds function and style to the small space without breaking the bank.

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  Decorate the Laundry Closet

  

  Blogger Ashley from Cherished Bliss swapped her oversized modern washer dryer for an old school top load washer and dryer combo to make her rental laundry closet into a functional space. Then she added a chunky stained wood shelf lined with linen storage boxes, a wicker basket with wood-top glass storage jars for supplies, a cute lamp to add some ambient lighting, and a laundry sign to help camouflage hoses and cords.

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  Make Room for a Drying Rod

  

  In this shallow laundry closet sandwiched into a corner of an eat-in kitchen behind bi-fold doors from Elizabeth Burns Design, a top load washer and dryer set was the only kind that fit. Burns gave it a budget makeover by covering the back wall with peel and stick black-and-white buffalo plaid wallpaper, replacing builder grade wire racks with a small cabinet and drying rod, and adding antique brass cabinet pulls for warmth.

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  Include a Central Island

  

  While this laundry room from Whittney Parkinson Design is large enough for any kind of appliances, the designer chose to install a top load washing machine, building cabinetry around the appliances that provides clearance for the lid and space for a shelf behind the machines for housing supplies in clear glass storage jars.

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  Add Beadboard Wall Trim

  

  Blogger Jen Woodhouse installed beadboard wall paneling and custom floating shelves to add style and functionality to this small laundry room in one of the most heavily trafficked areas of her home.

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  Go Vertical

  

  Blogger Abby Lawson from Just a Girl and Her Blog gave her small laundry room a makeover with stainless steel appliances, wood-effect floor tiles, vertical shiplap painted pale blue, a mix of open and closed storage, and a gold-rimmed mirror and decorative brass and glass dome ceiling light fixture.

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  Choose a Black and White Palette

  

  This laundry room from Charbonneau Interiors features a strict black-and-white palette down the black hangers on the black drying rod. Tall white painted cabinetry that runs to the ceiling maximizes vertical storage, and patterned tiles add interest to the floor.
  

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  Keep It Renter-Friendly

  

  Blogger Kathy Baugher of Up to Date Interiors cheered up the laundry room in her rental apartment in Japan by decorating the top load washing machine with gold polka dot decals leftover from her daughter's room makeover. An installation of wall baskets conceals plumbing fixtures and cords.

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  Save Space by Stacking

  

  In this kitchen pantry laundry room closet from Marie Flanigan Interiors, open shelving and a small drying rack is built around a stacked top load washer dryer combo that makes efficient use of space.

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  Make a Multipurpose Mudroom

  

  This compact laundry area from KG Designs is confined to the back wall of a combination mudroom and laundry room space. A top load washer and dryer set, a row of wall-to-wall cabinetry, patterned backsplash tile, and a small countertop space for folding laundry blends in with the neutral decor of the space.

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  Decorate With a Wall Map

  

  Blogger Diane Henkler of In My Own Style spray painted the wooden louvered doors of this diminutive laundry closet, added a top load washing machine and dryer and a row of upper cabinets, and papered the walls with nostalgic National Geographic maps sourced online to add some bright color and inspire daydreaming of elsewhere while doing chores.

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  Make It Multifunctional

  

  A top load washer and dryer with wall-mounted cabinetry and a small countertop to house everyday supplies creates a functional laundry corner in this multifunctional utility room from Charbonneau Interiors that shares space with a giant extra refrigerator and the dog's bowls.
  

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  Add a Powder Room

  

  For this combination downstairs powder room and laundry room from Finding Lovely, cabinets were painted in the same shade of warm gray as the adjacent kitchen, and illustrated floral wallpaper elevates the decor.
  

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  Keep It Colorful

  

  Blogger Rhoda from Southern Hospitality turned her bare bones windowless upstairs laundry room into a colorful space thanks to paint, cheerful patterned wallpaper, and a vintage yard sale glass front wood cabinet mounted above the top load washer dryer that crates a space to display decorative items.

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  Stay Minimalist

  

  This laundry room from Hannah Tyler Designs is as clean and minimalist as a freshly laundered white shirt, with pristine white walls and cabinetry, a top load washing machine and dryer, and a simple globe pendant light.