35 Chic and Optimized Mudroom Laundry Room Combo Ideas

A combined mudroom laundry room is a high-traffic space that should be as efficient as it is stylish. You can optimize your hybrid space with paint, storage options, seating, wall decor, or by adding features that will make chores easier, like a built-in ironing board or a drying rack that comes down from the ceiling on a pulley. Check out these mudroom laundry room combos in a range of sizes and styles that will inspire you to give yours a makeover that will improve your everyday life.

Paint It Pink

Separate the mudroom from the laundry room in a mixed-use space with a coat of pretty pink paint, like this home from Whittney Parkinson Design. A ceiling-mounted drying rack is eco-friendly and space-saving, too. Front-loading washer dryers are mounted on a raised platform that makes them more comfortable to use.

Add Rustic Western Style

Design your mudroom and laundry room to match your decor so that it will feel integrated and cohesive. This log cabin laundry room mudroom combination from Kibler & Kirch has warm, rustic wood and tile finishes that camouflage the appliances and give the space an authentic Western feel.

Add a Farmhouse Touch

If your mudroom laundry room is spacious enough to have well-defined zones, make it feel like a single space by using similar colors and finishes. This modern farmhouse space from Ashley Montgomery Design combines earthy shades of green, natural wood, and woven accents. Vintage touches like a beveled mirror above a wooden dresser and a retro-style sink add a timeless feel to the space.

Add Under-Bench Storage

Add open under-bench storage to make taking off and putting on shoes a breeze. This blue-and-white mudroom/laundry room from Kate Marker Interiors has shoe storage below, plenty of wall hooks for coats and bags, and an open shelf above the shiplap paneling that is styled with plants, woven accents, and lit with sconces.

Hang a Pendant Light

Use pendant lighting to define zones in a shared laundry room mudroom, like this space from Kate Marker Interiors. Soothing blue paint adds contrast with white walls that is fresh and classic and can work with many modern design styles like coastal or modern farmhouse.

Add Colorful Accents

Soften a utilitarian space like a combination mudroom laundry room by adding textile accents in cheerful colors and floral patterns that will make it feel as homey and well-decorated as the rest of the house. This all-white space from Martha O’Hara Interiors has plenty of storage from the upper cabinets to the coat cubbies and built-in under-bench drawers. Some throw pillows, a floral fabric window shade, and an overdyed purple patchwork rug add color that warms the space.

Install Double Doors

Maintain an uncluttered look in the mudroom/laundry room by putting a stacked washer and dryer set in a laundry closet and installing slatted double doors that will allow air to circulate even when they are shut, like this space from Kate Marker Interiors. Include shelving for cleaning supplies and small appliances like irons and a cubby for the vacuum cleaner, mops, and brooms to create a mini utility closet.

Add a Closet Door

On the mudroom side of this combo space from Kate Marker Interiors, a coat closet with built-in shelving has doors that can be closed as well to keep the pass-through space feeling neat and tidy. Position open baskets beneath the bench to store extras like gloves, scarves, or dog leashes.

Focus on One Wall

In a space that is longer than it is wide, focus the mudroom and laundry room zones on a single wall to save space and streamline the design. This spacious mudroom laundry room from Emily Henderson Design is divided up by an open coat closet cubby. A sliding ladder provides access to the upper regions of the floor-to-ceiling built-ins. A roomy dog shower is wedged in between the coat cubby and the appliances for an added bonus so that you can keep the whole family's muddy paws from tracking dirt into the house.

Add a Tree

Emily Henderson Design filled the empty corner of this light-flooded laundry room mudroom with a potted tree that brings the outdoors inside and adds a mood-boosting green element. If your room isn't flooded with natural light, consider a faux olive tree.

Lay Brick Tile Flooring

Brick tile flooring is a rustic choice that won't show every speck of dirt and adds a farmhouse feel to this spacious galley-style mudroom laundry room from Jessica Nelson Design. The cabinets on both sides of the room are painted in the same delicate shade of light blue for a cohesive look that adds some color to the white walls.

Include a Window Seat

A window seat tucked into a bay window on the far end of this bright space from Jessica Nelson Design provides a comfy place to take your boots off, rest your feet between loads, or even curl up with a good book while you wait for your towels to dry.

Paint It All White

Give your mudroom laundry room a refresh by painting everything white, like this long and narrow modern farmhouse space from Thistlewood Farms. Painting thrifted storage cabinets, shelving, and furniture in the same color will make it feel organized and planned without having to splurge on matching cabinets and drawers.

Create a Coat Cubby

Integrate an open coat cubby on a wall of built-ins like this space from Jessica Nelson Design. The open cubby will make outerwear easy to access and hang up, and allow air to circulate so that your coat and boots can dry out between uses. Add double coat hooks to maximize hanging space, and be sure to choose a design that you like so that it will look just as appealing when empty.

Unify With Flooring

In a spacious hybrid mudroom laundry room, running the same flooring throughout the space will make it feel cohesive and distinct from adjoining rooms. This mudroom and laundry room from Crisp Architects are technically separated by an archway and partial wall, but the black-and-white checkerboard flooring visually links the spaces and defines them from the hardwood flooring of adjoining rooms.

Install a Sliding Barn Door

Whisk your mudroom laundry room out of sight—or earshot if you're drying sneakers—with a sliding door, like this space from Kate Marker Interiors. Choose a rustic finish for a modern farmhouse interior, or a more modern style for a more contemporary space.

Prioritize Natural Light

Abundant natural light will make your mudroom laundry room more pleasant to spend time in or pass through. This spacious modern farmhouse-style new build from KG Designs has large windows that allow light to flood in, and plenty of room for open and closed storage built around the double-stacked windows.

Add a Statement Rug

If you live in a mild climate and don't have kids or dogs tracking mud into the house regularly, there's no reason why you can't decorate your mudroom laundry room with a statement rug. This black-and-white modern farmhouse combo room from Kate Marker Interiors has a patterned rug that warms up the gray tile floor and an opaque bubble pendant light hanging above that adds some personality and playfulness to the proceedings.

Choose Sides

In a long, narrow galley-style laundry room mudroom combo, divide space by grouping the laundry facilities on the wall with access to plumbing, and outfit the opposite wall with a bench, wall hooks, and storage cabinets, like this space from Michelle Berwick Design. Recessed ceiling lights help keep the bright all-white space finished with penny tiles, gold hardware and fixtures, and shiplap wall panels from feeling too dark or cramped.

Add a Farmhouse Sink

A farmhouse sink works especially well in a laundry room, and can be used in a pinch to rinse off small dogs and humans. Black appliances and a dark stone countertop add contrast with pale green walls and cabinetry in this laundry room from Mindy Gayer Design Co.

Maximize Storage

Maximize storage with floor-to-ceiling built-ins finished with molding for a polished feel. Mindy Gayer Design Co. broke up a wall of cabinetry with black hardware, a central bench with a pegboard for hanging bags, and open storage with woven baskets to conceal clutter.

Hang Wall Sconces

Save space and add style in a mudroom laundry room by hanging a trio of decorative sconces on the wall that double as decor, like this airy space from Marie Flanigan Interiors.

Add a Built-In Bench

Structure your mudroom laundry room with a built-in bench to make it more comfortable to use. Marie Flanigan Interiors chose a perforated bench with an integrated shelf, and hung simple black hooks on the shiplap wall above for coats and bags.

Stack the Appliances

Save room in a mudroom laundry room by stacking your washer and dryer. Blogger Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona chose matte white Shaker-style cabinetry, glossy black stacked appliances, and blingy gold accents on cabinet pulls and an overhead lighting fixture that turned the compact space into a chic, functional room with a touch of glam.

Make Room for Art

This laundry room mudroom from Michelle Berwick Design is accessed by a hidden door in the entryway, adding excitement to everyday routines. The laundry room countertop is decorated with a pair of framed prints leaning casually against the wall to give you something to gaze upon while you sort and fold another load of laundry.

Use Moody Finishes

Create a soothing feel in your mudroom laundry room by giving it a coat of paint in a moody hue like this soothing medium-toned gray space from Michelle Berwick Design.

Utlize Every Inch

Build your storage cabinets all the way up to the ceiling to maximize space, like this bright laundry room mudroom from Martha O’Hara Interiors. A window over the laundry room sink is an additional luxury.

Accent With Pink

Add color to your mudroom laundry room to give it a polished and uplifting feel, like this pale gray space from Martha O’Hara Interiors that is accented with gold hardware and pink textiles.

Garage Mudroom Laundry Room

In the absence of a dedicated mudroom and laundry room, My 100 Year Old Home created a laundry corner in the multipurpose garage and game room at this California beach house. Functional shelving that runs up to the ceiling and clear plastic storage bins keep supplies organized and easy to access.

Make Room for the Dog

If your mudroom laundry room is spacious enough, why not set up a feeding and watering station for the family dog and a spare refrigerator, like this multifunctional space from Charbonneau Interiors?

Hang a Mail Basket

Add small upgrades that will help you to better utilize your hybrid mudroom laundry room space, like the wire mail basket attached to the back door for storing outgoing mail from Thistlewood Farms.

Hang a Dual-Purpose Rod

Install a clothes rod that can be used as a coat rack or a drying rack (or both in a small space), like this black-and-white mudroom laundry room from Charbonneau Interiors.

Add Custom Cubbies

Custom cubbies holding lined wire basket hampers above the washing machine will ensure that you don't trip on the laundry basket on your way in or out of the door, like this space from Kate Marker Interiors.

Incorporate Bench Seating

A small bench provides both a place to put on and take off your shoes and a perch to watch your clothes finish drying in a compact mudroom laundry room like this space from Jessica Nelson Design.

Build in an Ironing Board

Add functionality to a laundry room mudroom with a built-in ironing board that can be stowed away when not in use, like this compact space from Hub of the House Studio.

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