nuliajuk, thanks for that info. Actually that does make sense. The home I had before, the townhouse, and my current home do not have basements. The homes I grew up (we moved once when I was a kid) had laundry in the basement, as did my grandparent's homes. From what I can tell most homes in NC do not have basements. Where I live (near the coast) I'm sure the water table is too high to even consider basements, in the western part of the state you're dealing with mountians. There's no drain anywhere in the home for emergency overflows in any of the homes I've lived in where the laundry is off the kitchen.
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In Florida they put the laundry appliances in the garage. This is considered completely normal. Actually using the garage for storing and working on vehicles - which would involve getting grease, brake dust, etc., on your waiting laundry and folding table - not so much. That happens in the driveway.
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If it's done right, laundry on the same floor as the bedrooms is a great idea. However, I have 2 friends who have both had water coming through the ceiling downstairs. Major pain. My 100 yr old house has the laundry in a utility room that used to be a back porch, just off the kitchen. Works fine for me. Except when the pipes freeze, it's not well insulated out there... There are all of 2 closets in the house, btw, both of them very very tiny, not even deep enough for a hanging rod. Seems like some houses these days have walk-in closets bigger than my bedroom!
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