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My parents have one on the second floor and it’s awesome. We currently have ours in the basement and it’s totaly annoying. As I get older I’d consider moving it to the main level.

Yes girl. Get that main floor laundry

I’ve never had it, so I can’t really say, but I’d guess if it were me I wouldn’t spend the money. We had to go across the street to a laundromat until just shy of two years ago, so having our own set (in our basement) was life changing for me.

Growing up we had it on the main floor. It was in its own room in the back of the house, near my parents room. I guess it was fine but the kids' rooms were upstairs so there was still the carrying of the laundry up and down the stairs.
People that I know that have it in a half bath or near a living area seem to complain. My sister is actually planning to move hers to the basement! I think the biggest complaints are that it is too difficult to keep tidy all the time when it's in a guest bathroom, there is not enough room for folding, sorting, ironing, etc, or it is too noisy in the living area. So I guess it depends how much you hate it and is it going to be in a large enough area that you can close off? Personally I wouldn't spend a lot on it.

First floor laundry and I would not be compatible at this stage of my life. I cannot keep up with the piles and love being able to shut it away in the basement. For me this depends on how much you hate laundry: I already hate it so moving it upstairs would be a waste of money because I absolutely know it wouldn’t make me do it more often.

@Litebrite: Oops, just realized it's spelled chutes! From what I've read, you just need an unobstructed wall between two studs that goes down to the basement. Hallways are good places because there usually aren't wires or plumbing there. It looks like the installation is pretty simple, I bet a handyman could get it done pretty easily (or you could do it yourself if you feel comfortable patching drywall).

I have a friend with a laundry chute, and she says it's awesome. No more nagging kids and the husband to put their clothes in the hamper. Occasionally, she'll find a small toy that was thrown down there, and one time some clothes got stuck midway so they had to dislodge it with a broom handle, but for the most part it seems to work well.

My mom and dad have had it in the basement and on the main level. It was definitely better on the main floor of the house, just because of convenience. They had a laundry chute in our bathroom, which made it easier on my mom (until we had to start doing our own laundry at like 10 or 11). When they had the chute put in my parents actually had the contractor measure our little sister so he could make it too small for us to shove her down it.

We have it on the main floor of our house, which is nice because I'm not packing laundry up and down the stairs, but I still don't do a very good job of starting on top of the laundry.

@Litebrite: Yes. Main floor as is our bedroom so 90% of our stuff never goes anywhere which is nice!

I went from a 3 story townhouse with it in the basement to a one level house with it in between two bedrooms.

I can't imagine doing the amount of laundry I have now with a baby and still having to go up and down all those stairs.

But also, the laundry now is right outside our son's room and he will not nap if the washer or dryer are on. And they're newer machines and not really THAT loud...

My mom has a laundry room on her main floor and it's in the bathroom. I think that's a pretty smart set up. It's out of the way, but not out in the open (ours was in a closet, but we had to take the doors off because they don't make a shallow enough washer and dryer anymore). And in a bathroom, the noise doesn't bother anyone.

Our laundry is currently on the main floor and its in the entry way between the garage and kitchen. It is a huge pain to both have to bring laundry up and down and also there are always baskets in one of our main walkways. We're hoping to move the laundry upstairs sometime this year. Depending on where you choose to move it on the main floor I think you could end up giving yourself more of a headache - but I've also never had laundry in a basement (or a house with a basement).

I don't really like our main floor laundry area. It's open to the rest of the house and it would be difficult to wall it off. Which means we can't block out the noise and I can't leave piles of laundry laying around. Growing up our house had a laundry chute to the basement and I would much prefer that setup now.

I had it in the my house growing up, but obv I wasn't reaping the benefits. I think it would be awesome to have, but it's not a deal breaker, and not something I'd spend $$ in doing. While it's annoying to go down to the basement and yes, completely forget we have laundry down there, it's really not THAT big of a deal...

Ours is in our basement but we have a chute. That's the game changer as I can't imagine having to lug all the dirty clothes downstairs. I'll be honest, DH does the laundry but it takes him forever to get it done and back upstairs. Mainly b/c we don't go to the basement so it's out of sight, out of mind. That being said, we're going to be finishing our basement next month and will have a nice tv room down there as well as the kids' playroom. Since we'll be down there a lot more, I can see all of us pitching in more often. The one change that we made to make dragging the clothes up the stairs a little easier is that we switched from laundry baskets to the $1 FRAKTA blue Ikea bags. So much easier to carry multiple bags as you can throw them over your shoulder.

That being said, I would LOVE a laundry room on the second floor. We don't have the room to ever do that.

yes.

We used to live in a townhome with the laundry on the first floor and I hated doing laundry. Especially when I was pregnant, it was a pain lugging it up and down and with a newborn and all the laundry that she produced, it was not my favorite.

We moved to our new home when said newborn was 2.5 years and now with two more kids and the even more laundry that these kids produce, I cannot imagine lugging all the laundry up and down.

I read some where, the secret to keeping an organized house, do smaller loads of laundry more often. It def helps to do that bc the laundry room is close.

We are house hunting right now and indoor laundry is high on our list. A lot of houses have laundry in the garage. We actually really want second floor laundry up with all the rooms. But a first floor laundry room with a sink near the kitchen also sounds so nice! If it was a house you are going to stay forever in, then I would consider spending the money to move the laundry at some point.

i think it is. growing up we had it on the second floor (with kids rooms) and now its in the basement and it sort of drives me nuts. If I could move it to a floor we live on I would!

We live in a two floor condo with upstairs (bedroom level laundry) I can’t do laundry while anyone is sleeping because the washing machine spin cycle shakes the upstairs and is loud, even though it isn’t that loud.

And I still end up bringing all the laundry downstairs to fold. I’d much prefer a main floor laundry over our current set up.

What I didn't like about having it downstairs is having to lug it up and down while pregnant... main level laundry is on my wish list when we move.