Laundry Room Ideas – 57 Budget Friendly Ways To Update Your Small Laundry Room
From paint colors, cabinets and shelves – even farmhouse and cheery decor styles, these are unique and affordable DIY small laundry room ideas to update and BEAUTIFY your small, outdated BORING laundry room on your budget.
The laundry room pictures below are amazing before and after budget makeovers that are sure to give YOU some inexpensive ideas for redecorating and updating YOUR tiny laundry room – even if you have an awkward laundry room.
Updated on October 22, 2024
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Small Laundry Room Ideas
Do you have a teeny-tiny laundry room or laundry closet?
Trying to figure out how to not only make your laundry room look cute, cheery or downright stylish but to also make it more functional in that small space?
Whether you want a laundry room focal wall…
or a single cabinet AND focal wall…
or you’re turning a closet into a laundry room…
There are LOTS of ideas below!
I’ve also found tons of cheap space-saving small laundry room ideas that you’re gonna love – especially if you’re on a tight budget!
I saw this idea for hanging clothes in my laundry room and I was hooked on finding MORE cheap small space laundry room SOLUTIONS like this simple DIY idea in the picture below:
Who knew this simple and CHEAP clothes rod could make SUCH a difference in my small laundry room?
I never thought about the corners in my laundry area, but turns out, I wasn’t using them in the best way.
✅ Have YOU tried this DIY idea in your laundry room corner?
I have – and it really IS a game-changer.
I actually LIKE doing laundry now…lol!
It’s amazing how small, simple and cheap updates can completely change the look – and FEEL – of your laundry room… or even a tiny laundry closet in your hallway.
Speaking of hallway laundry closets – does yours have DOORS?
If not, just take a look at this laundry room refresh in the picture below:
Just GORGEOUS, right?
What an inexpensive and beautiful way to hide your laundry room with curtains too!
Here’s how to recreate the look in YOUR laundry area:
These curtains to replace the door…✅ Found Herewith these floral prints on the wall…✅ Found Hereadd fake greenery like this…✅ Found Hereon floating shelves like these.✅ Found Here
Turns out, there are many ways to update your laundry room on a budget – let me give you a list of just a few cheap decorating and DIY storage ideas you can try.
On A Budget?
This list of small laundry room ideas are all cheap ways to spruce up your tiny laundry area.
Here are just a few cheap ways to update your laundry room for a fresh new look on a low budget:
- Refresh your small laundry room with cute DIY Ideas (see before / after makeover pictures below)
- Paint Your Cabinets (best paint colors below)
- Install shelves or hanging pipe shelving
- Update your cabinet knobs / pulls
- Update your laundry room light fixture
- Consider wall paper (but be sure the pattern in not too “busy”)
- Hang some cute curtains
- Get a laundry room rug
- Put your laundry detergent etc in vintage tins
- Hang some laundry-themed pictures
- Install new laundry room flooring
That’s just a few ideas for updating your small laundry room!
Just be careful that your updates don’t make your laundry room look smaller.
To make your laundry room feel bigger, use light colored paint, don’t close off any natural light you might have from a window, don’t choose a “busy” pattern for any wall paper… and don’t clutter the walls and the whole small space with STUFF.
Personally, I LOVE these ideas for a rustic farmhouse laundry room – that’s my decor style preference.
Down below are a LOT more small laundry room makeover ideas and before/after pictures that work for ANY decorating style or laundry room design.
Tiny Laundry Room Makeovers
Tiny Laundry Room Ideas and Pictures: If you have a small laundry room in your home or apartment, you know the struggle is REAL trying to get the most out of your tiny laundry room area.
Especially if you’re on a budget!
Thankfully, you can get more storage and get more organized in your tiny laundry room very cheaply.
For example, this laundry room storage space was maximized with Dollar Tree items – and it looks GORGEOUS!
Small Laundry Room Layout
If you have a small laundry room and need a SIMPLE laundry room layout design for your small space, I just LOVE this small laundry room idea below:
The laundry room is a BUSY room, I have no idea why laundry areas in some homes and apartments are so stinkin’ small, but there are lots of creative ways to make the most out of the limited room you have.
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Small Laundry Room PICTURES
The laundry room pictures below all show some clever small space laundry room design. Some of these laundry room makeovers are amazing and so beautiful – and do not look that hard to do in your own small laundry room.
If you’re looking for some laundry room inspiration to re-do your tiny laundry space, you have got to look at the pictures below!
You’ll see all kinds of ideas – from laundry room shelving ideas, where to PUT the litter box in a small laundry room, before and after pictures, laundry room paint color ideas, and SO much more!
Ready to put your DIY hat on and make your laundry room not only beautiful, but functional?
Great! Let’s go!
Small Laundry Room Update REVEAL
Just take a look at this stunning, low budget laundry room makeover!
Space-Saving Tiny Laundry Room Ideas
Love this small laundry room closet idea above! Love the shiplap wall and the industrial floating shelves!
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Laundry Room Shelving Ideas
The laundry room shelving ideas in the pictures below are perfect for even a VERY small laundry room.
What a great way to add more space in a tiny laundry area!
Tiny laundry room space-saving idea – hanging pipe shelves to get lots more space in this small laundry room.
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Laundry room space saving idea – cat litter box in between the washer and dryer. great use of a small space! We have 2 cats and know how challenging it can be to find a good place for their litter box (if you love cats, too, you should check out these cat gift ideas).
Space-Saving tiny laundry room layout idea. This layout gives this small laundry room LOTS of space and much more usable.
Tiny laundry room idea: Solid shelf over the washer/dryer and lots of cabinets on side wall make this a great small laundry room layout.
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Absolutely LOVE the use of vintage tins like these in this laundry room!
Love the sink in this small laundry room!
Very rustic farmhouse feel to it.
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Tiny Laundry Room DIY Ideas
Brilliant tiny laundry room DIY idea for a small laundry area off the kitchen!
Laundry room closet DIY idea – LOTS of space in this tiny laundry room. Such a clever idea!
Stacked Washer Dryer Ideas
Here are some small laundry room ideas with stackable washer and dryer – stacked washer dryers save a LOT more space in a tiny laundry room area and these pictures below will give you some great ideas to work with.
Tiny laundry room idea – this unused closet transformed into a laundry room.
LOVE the sliding barn door!
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Stacking your washer and dryer is an excellent space-saving idea for a small laundry room in your home or apartment.
Tiny Laundry Room? A stacked washer and dryer mixed with lots of baskets and shelves makes for a great small laundry room DIY space saving layout.
Gorgeous tiny laundry room layout idea. Small closet-sized laundry area now very useful and organized.
LOVE that they have their wine cooler in the same space! Do you see it, at the top left?
Brilliant space-saving idea!
Small laundry room ideas: diy shelves and sink in tiny laundry area with stackable washer and dryer.
Small Laundry Room Before & After Pictures
Tiny Laundry Room Layout? Check out the Before and After make-over of this small laundry room picture above. That laundry room is now MUCH more useful and organized!
We think the rug makes a BIG difference in the over-all look of this laundry room make-over, don’t you?
Tiny laundry room layout before and after pictures. Lots more space with the cabinets in this small laundry room!
The laundry room sign gives a nice touch and brings it all together.
Cheap tiny laundry room make over. Some shelves, paint, and good organization really turned this small laundry area around into a useful (and beautiful) space.
DIY tiny laundry room make over idea.
The before and AFTER of this small laundry room make-over is quite dramatic – I’d even let my mother-in-law see my laundry room if it looked like this!
Tiny laundry room budget make-over idea. Cost about $100 – mainly for the space-saving baskets.
You get can baskets like that on sale here.
Before and after pictures of a small laundry room make-over. Great layout for a tiny laundry room!
I really like the small white floating shelves – gives the laundry a nice neat and clean look while offering a lot more space to work with.
Here’s more before and after pictures of a laundry room makeover project – I think this small laundry room redo turned out great!
My “weekend” laundry room makeover.
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