Your new laundry room doesn't have to conform to the expected layout of a washer and dryer with a countertop over them.

I’m not sure where the term “laundry day blues” came from, but maybe it’s because most laundry rooms are depressing. They don’t excite our fun side. If you have to do laundry — and most of us do — why ...

Some rooms in the house seem to always follow the same layout pattern. In the bedroom, the bed against the back wall; in the ...