Laundry - with reader participation!

Don and I have very different laundry habits. He'll do a load every other day, if not every day. I can go weeks before I'll run out of clean clothes to wear. Then I'll spend an entire day doing load after load to get caught up.

Don also prefers to use his laundry room as a closet and dressing room to avoid those exhausting trips up and down the stairs.

So, it should be no surprise that we have differing opinions on the laundry situation at the new house.

The floor plan calls for a lovely laundry room on the main floor, right off the of the mudroom. It will have lovely shelving, a separate lovely wash tub, and eventually a lovely counter and maybe some lovely cabinets.

See? Lovely.

However, Don is convinced that we'll ultimately wish we'd put the laundry room on the second floor near all of the bedrooms. I've taken several informal polls of friends and family, and the results are pretty mixed. So, we compromised. This house will have TWO laundry rooms. One for each of us, I suppose!

Fortunately, there was a perfect spot for a second level laundry room that didn't require changing any layouts or making any rooms smaller. It just meant adding some extra plumbing and electrical work. I'm sure it's far more complicated than that for the people installing it, but it seems pretty minor to me.

The dryer vent in that photo is in the wrong place, but it's been fixed since the photo was taken.

I've persuaded Don to put our washer and dryer in the main-floor laundry room to start. If we hate it, I'll agree to move it upstairs. In the meantime, the rough-in for the upstairs will be entirely concealed and we'll use that space for storage.

So, here's the question. Which laundry room would you use? I've created a little poll over to the right of the page. Voting is anonymous, so we won't know who chose which side!