Traditional utility room schemes. Choose your perfect laundry room design from our pictures of the best traditional utility rooms. Fancy something different? Check out our modern utility rooms and country utility rooms for more style inspiration or browse all our utility rooms pictures to find your perfect look.
How organised is this boot room? Thanks to a bespoke built-in storage system, this entrance hall is not likely to become overwhelmed by clutter any day soon. Coat pegs, a bench, easy-access shoe boxes, plus overhead ‘lockers’ ensure there’s a storage method to suit everyone’s requirements. Neat idea!
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Mix fitted shelving with freestanding pieces for the best storage in a utility or boot room. Here an antique Swedish commode forms the focal point in the enviable storage space that was once the laundry room.
Rug
Birdie Fortescue
Similar commode
Hilary Batstone
Walls painted in grey-blue carry through from the wine cellar to the corridor, which was created from a redundant passage. When choosing storage, pick a modular system so you can position sections where you need them most. In the corridor, an armchair has been flanked by twin wall lamps for ample light while reading.
Wall paint
Down Pipe from Farrow & Ball
Make the most of a spring breeze and dry washing outside if possible, or free up floor space indoors with a drying rack suspended from the ceiling. Hang up ribbon-tied bundles of dried lavender to sweetly scent linens and the utility room.
Clothes dryer
Garden Trading
Ribbon
Jane Means
Pegs
Plain Useful
Basket
Mia Fleur
Sleek worktops in this modern utility room match the practical laminate
flooring. Fresh white units break up the grey while above a picture
shelf full of personal mementos will put a smile on the housekeepers
face while tending to chores. Hot pink towels add a fun touch while a
gun metal grey washing machine keeps the scheme consistent.
Get the storage right in a utility room, ensuring it will be large enough to engulf the clutter that comes its way. Opting for a cupboard with doors can be a neater solution than open shelving. And once practical choices have been taken into consideration, add some fun ornaments that have no real right to be there but create a wonderful sense of fun.
Coat rack
and cupboards
Middleton Bespoke
In this traditional utility room, a ceiling-mounted airer, foldaway worktop and eye-catching clean-laundry drawers make sorting out the clothes a much less chaotic and time-consuming exercise. This bright, user-friendly space provides ample scope for juggling all of the family’s washing in an orderly fashion and helps cut out any clothing clutter from your home
Similar airerCast in Style
Kitchen cabinetry
Town & Country Interiors
Stylish white shelving and practical storage boxes and jars keep this utility room organised. Metal trugs are ideal for storing all those cleaning essentials – and you can just pick them up and go when you’re ready.
Shelves
Ikea
Washing tablets tin
Garden Trading
Housekeeping trug
Marks & Spencer
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This neutral utility room is beautifully organised with accessories that are practical and good-looking. Start with pale green classic metro tiles, then add glass, wood and a pretty patterned material in a harmonising tone.
Sink unit and cupboard
Butlers
Shelves
Ikea
Roller towel set
The Garden House at Not on the High Street
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A butler’s sink and white brick-effect tiling are practical choices for this traditional utilty room.
Similar wall tiles
Fired Earth
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In this traditional utility room, a clip rack on the inside of a cupboard door keeps mops off the floor and dusters in place.
Ironing board
The Conran Shop
Vacuum cleaner
Oreck
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Hand-tumbled tiles with a mackerel motif lift the mood in a small washroom. Roughly finished paintwork in grey gives it a rustic vibe.
Tiles
Hooper & Shaw
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The soft green paint in this utility room creates a traditional look. The subtle addition of colours in the jugs, ironing board and towels finish off the netural mid-century style.
Similar paint
Farrow & Ball
Similar ironing board
Baileys
Laundry sign
Dotcomgiftshop
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This pretty peg box shows that even the most basic household items can be customised to look stylish. Simple French linen tea towels add to the vintage look.
FabricIan Mankin
Ribbon
VV Rouleaux
Tall cabinetry, painted in a cream hue, cleverly hides a utility area whilst limestone flooring gives this laundry room a light and airy feel.
Paint
French Grey by Little Greene
Washing machine
Miele
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This cloakroom come utility room uses clever ideas to create storage that also looks good. A wall-mounted drawer unit displays a lamp, mirror, clock and plants, while a silvered stool doubles as seating and plant stand. A boot rack, umbrella stand and coat hooks all make the most of a small space.
TableMarston & Langinger
Drawer unit
Castle Gibson
Zinc plant pots
Grand Illusions
Mirror
Marston & Langinger
Clock
Alfie’s Antiques Market
A space-saving clothes dryer is a must on washday. Teamed with bird pegs it has a quirky edge. A vintage hanger and a pastel kitchen bin show how functional items can also look stylish.
Dryer Thorsten van Elten
Pegs
Pedlars
Hanger
Baileys Home & Garden
Bin
Garden Trading
Utility rooms don’t have to be dull, functional places. A collection of vintage accessories and a classic butler sink give this utility room character.
Similar sink
Shaws of Darwen
Customising a dresser by lining the shelves with striped fabric allows laundry to be sorted by stacking it into neat piles and tying it with ribbon. Storage jars and a box covered in wallpaper keep laundry essentials, such as pegs, close to hand.
RibbonVV Rouleaux
Dresser, linens
Brissi
Jars
Summerill & Bishop
Throws, linens
Cologne & Cotton
A botanical-themed wallpaper makes a beautiful backdrop for an eclectic collection of ceramics.
Wallpaper on dresser
Boras Tapeter
Ladder
Le Petit Jardin
Herb Apron
Eco Eco
‘Fresh Today’ tea towel
JME Collection
