Custom Laundry Room Solutions in Chandler, Arizona
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Space Solutions designs and installs custom laundry rooms for homeowners across the City of Chandler and the wider East Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Cabinetry, folding counters, drying racks, hanging rods, sealed supply storage, and pedestal integration for front-load machines. Every laundry room gets engineered around the room you actually have, including the parts of it the original floor plan never intended you to use.
Here is the Chandler reality. The majority of homes in this city were built between 1970 and 1999, and most of those laundry rooms have never been touched. They were not cheapened. They were designed for a different era, when the machines were shallower, the door opened upward instead of outward, and nobody expected a laundry room to hold a folding counter, a hanging rod, and a season of sports gear. One wire shelf above the pair, and that was the whole plan.
Then the machines changed. A modern front-load pair runs about 27 inches wide each and 32 to 34 inches deep with the door and vent accounted for, and that door swings out into the room instead of up into open air. Drop it into a closet framed in 1984 and the room stops working. Folding moves to the bed. Detergent lives on top of the dryer because there is nowhere else for it.
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How to Modernize Your Chandler Laundry Room
Modernizing a Chandler laundry room means rebuilding the space around today’s machines and the real sequence of laundry, which is sort, wash, dry, fold, hang, and put away. In most Chandler homes that means reclaiming the vertical air above the pair, adding a folding surface the room has never had, and closing the supplies behind cabinet doors. The walls usually stay exactly where they are.
Start by deciding whether you have a closet or a room, because the two get very different treatments. Chandler’s 1970s through 1990s stock leans heavily toward the closet: 25 to 40 square feet behind bifold doors, often just off the kitchen or the garage entry. Homes built after 2000 more commonly got a walk-in laundry, 70 to 130 square feet, with the builder leaving most of that floor open and one shelf on the wall.
The closet version goes vertical. Tall cabinets taken as close to the ceiling as the framing allows, a fold-down counter above the machines, an interior hanging rod for shirts that come out of the dryer hot, and a sealed lower cabinet for detergent and stain spray. The room version goes horizontal: a long folding counter, a deep utility sink, a wall drying rack, and tall closed cabinetry that absorbs everything currently stacked on the floor.
Downtown Chandler is its own case. The bungalows and early homes around Chandler Square, built between 1912 and the 1960s, often never had a laundry room at all. Laundry got added later into a hallway alcove, a back porch, or a corner of the garage. Tight projects, and some of the most satisfying work we do, because the distance between a corner with two machines in it and an actual laundry room is entirely a question of cabinetry.
Laundry Room Cabinet and Counter Options
Laundry room cabinets in Chandler should be sealed, square, and tall enough to keep every supply off the machine tops. The most common thing we replace is open wire shelving, which lets bottles tip, powder sift through the grid, and the whole room read as a utility closet no matter how clean it is. Closed cabinetry fixes the look and the function in one pass.
Upper vs. Lower Cabinets
Upper cabinets do most of the work in a Chandler laundry closet. We run thermally fused melamine uppers at 30, 36, and 42-inch heights, carried toward the ceiling to capture the dead air older floor plans always waste. In an Ocotillo or Fulton Ranch home where the laundry connects to a hallway or the kitchen, solid wood doors match the finish level of the rest of the house.
Lower cabinets need a counter over them to earn their footprint, and they pay for themselves by hiding the parts of laundry nobody wants to look at. Soft-close hinges and sealed interiors keep household chemicals off raw board, which matters more than it sounds: an unsealed cabinet that holds bleach for a year starts to smell like it.
Counter Materials
The folding counter is where material choice earns its money. Quartz takes the abuse of a working laundry without flinching: a hot iron set down for a second, a dropped pod, a bleach drip nobody noticed. Solid surface is the strong middle option. Laminate works on a tighter budget, though in a household running eight or more loads a week it shows wear inside about five years. Counter height lands at 36 to 38 inches, or flush with the machine tops if the pair sits on pedestals.
Utility Sink Integration
A deep utility sink earns its space quickly. Pre-soaking a stain before it sets. Rinsing a paintbrush. Hand-washing anything that should never see the inside of a dryer. We set the sink into the lower cabinet run with a sealed cabinet underneath for supplies. In Chandler homes where the laundry sits between the garage and the kitchen, that sink becomes the first stop for hands and gear coming in from the yard.
Pull-Out Hampers
Pull-out hampers are the small feature clients mention most after a month in the room. Two or three tilt-out bins built into the cabinet run, so sorting happens when the clothes arrive rather than in a pile on the floor at 9pm. In a laundry serving several bedrooms, a labeled bin per person beats sorting by fabric. Either way they disappear behind a door.
Folding and Drying Stations
A dedicated folding station changes daily life more than any other single upgrade in the room. People fold where there is flat space. If that space is the kitchen island or the guest bed, that is where the basket lands and sits for two days. Put a counter at working height in the laundry and the loop closes.
Stackable Configurations
Stacking is usually the move that unlocks a small Chandler laundry. A 27-inch front-load washer with the dryer stacked above frees roughly 9 square feet of floor, and that floor goes straight into a tall pantry-depth cabinet at 84 to 96 inches, which swallows the vacuum, the mop, the ironing board, and every supply bottle in one closed run. A fold-down counter hinged to the studs beside the stack gives you working surface only while a load runs.
One thing to plan for in older Chandler homes. Some 1970s and 1980s laundry alcoves were run on a single appliance circuit, and a stacked pair plus LED cabinet lighting can push that wall past what it was wired for. On those retrofits we recommend a licensed electrician confirm circuit headroom before we manufacture, so the cabinetry and the wiring land right the first time.
Ironing Station Built-Ins
A built-in ironing station ends the recurring argument with a board that never goes back where it belongs. We build a fold-down board into a narrow cabinet bay, or a pull-out version that lives in a drawer slot and disappears when you are done. For drying, a pull-out telescoping rack gives roughly 12 linear feet of line-dry capacity inside a 6-inch-deep footprint.
Line drying is worth designing for here, because Chandler summers make it practical. Delicates and workout gear dry fast in this climate. During monsoon season, when blowing dust makes the patio a bad option for anything clean, an interior drying rack is the version that actually gets used.
Maximize a Small Laundry Space in Chandler
Maximizing a small Chandler laundry means going vertical, going stacked, and treating the space like a closet system instead of a utility closet. A 25 to 40-square-foot laundry is plenty for a working room. It is not plenty for a wire shelf and a floor pile, which is what most of these rooms have had since the house was framed.
The first move is almost always stacking the machines to buy back floor for a tall cabinet. The second is the fold-down counter mounted into studs beside the pair. The third is hanging storage, and it is the one people skip: an interior rod inside an upper cabinet for shirts pulled straight from the dryer, plus a second rod on a bracket for line-dry items. Two rods at roughly 36 inches each, in air that was doing nothing.
Sun Lakes homes get a different layout, and the difference is not cosmetic. In a single-level, age-restricted home, the best laundry room is not the one with the most cabinets. It is the one where everything used weekly sits between knee and shoulder height, where the detergent shelf needs no step stool, and where a front-load pair on pedestals brings the drum opening up to a comfortable working height. Seasonal items go to the top zone with a pull-down rod. Reach drives the design.
Chandler Housing Stock and the Laundry Problem
1970s to 1990s Chandler home, the majority of the city. Closet framed for a shallower top-load pair, one wire shelf, no folding surface. Solution: stacked or pedestal-mounted front-loaders, tall cabinets to the ceiling, fold-down counter, sealed supply storage.
Downtown Chandler bungalow or restored historic home, 1912 to 1960s. Often no dedicated laundry room at all, just an alcove or a converted porch. Solution: full-height built-in cabinetry that turns a corner with machines in it into a room.
Post-2000 Chandler home. Walk-in laundry at 70 to 130 square feet, mostly open floor and one shelf. Solution: long folding counter, deep utility sink, drying station, tall closed storage down the wall.
Sun Lakes single-level home. Reach matters more than volume. Solution: pedestals to raise the drum opening, weekly supplies between knee and shoulder height, pull-down rod for the top zone, seated folding station where the footprint allows.
Our Design Process
The process starts with a free in-home consultation. A Space Solutions designer comes to your Chandler home, measures the laundry room, photographs the existing conditions, checks the door swing and the vent run, and asks how laundry actually moves through your week. A household running twelve loads and one running four should not get the same room.
Within about a week you receive a 3D rendering, material options, and an itemized quote with no surprise add-ons. Manufacturing runs 2 to 4 weeks at our Phoenix facility. Installation is half a day for a stacked-unit retrofit, one day for a typical mid-size remodel, and one to two days for a walk-in buildout with a utility sink and quartz counter. We haul out the old wire shelving, and you work with the same designer from first measurement through final walk-through.
Space Solutions is owned by founders Noah Peery and Jennifer Peery, who started the company in 1991 and still run it from the headquarters at 22515 N. 19th Ave. in Phoenix. A+ BBB rating, licensed by the Arizona Registrar of Contractors under ROC# 248245, lifetime installation warranty. If your laundry sits along the garage wall, ask the designer about pairing it with a Chandler mudroom or with garage cabinets on the other side of that wall, since the two projects share a footprint and cost less built together than apart.
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Call (602) 298-6956Common Questions About Chandler Laundry Rooms
Will modern front-load machines fit in my 1980s Chandler laundry closet?
Usually yes, with planning. A front-load pair runs about 27 inches wide each and 32 to 34 inches deep with the door and vent accounted for, and the door swings out rather than up, which is the part older closets were never designed around. We measure the opening, the door swing, and the vent run before anything is manufactured. Stacking is often the answer in a closet under 40 square feet.
How long does a custom laundry room project take in Chandler?
About 3 to 6 weeks from design approval. Manufacturing runs 2 to 4 weeks at our Phoenix facility. Installation is half a day for a stacked-unit retrofit, one day for a typical mid-size remodel, and one to two days for a walk-in laundry buildout with utility sink and quartz counter.
Can you design a laundry room for a Sun Lakes single-level home?
Yes, and we design them differently. Pedestals raise the drum opening to a comfortable working height, everything used weekly sits between knee and shoulder height, and a pull-down rod handles the top zone so nothing requires a step stool. Where the footprint allows, we add a seated folding station. Reach drives the layout instead of raw storage volume.
What materials hold up best in an Arizona laundry room?
Thermally fused melamine for the cabinet boxes, with sealed interiors rather than raw MDF anywhere that holds bleach, detergent, or stain spray. Quartz or solid surface for any folding counter in regular use. In lake-adjacent homes at Ocotillo and Fulton Ranch, where the air carries more humidity than the rest of the desert, we specify sealed moisture-aware materials as a matter of course.
How much does a custom laundry room cost in Chandler?
Pricing lands in three general tiers. Stacked-unit retrofits in a 25 to 40-square-foot laundry closet run lowest. Mid-size remodels with a folding counter, tall storage, and pull-out hampers sit in the middle. Full walk-in buildouts with a quartz counter, deep utility sink, and drying station sit at the top. The free in-home consultation includes an itemized quote with no surprise add-ons.
Schedule Your Consultation
Call (602) 298-6956 or contact us online to schedule your free custom laundry room design consultation. We serve the City of Chandler, the County of Maricopa, and the wider Arizona metropolitan area from our headquarters at 22515 N. 19th Ave, Phoenix AZ 85027.
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Space Solutions
22515 N. 19th Ave, Phoenix AZ 85027
Serving the City of Chandler, the County of Maricopa, and the Arizona metropolitan area
(602) 298-6956 | A+ BBB Rated | ROC# 248245 | Founded 1991 by Noah and Jennifer Peery. 45,000+ Arizona homes served.