13 Houses With Utility Rooms and other Specialized Spaces

The Snow Apartment. Image Courtesy of penda

The accepted architecture of the past tin sometimes look a agelong mode from the modern, open-plan environments we bask today. But portion immoderate seemingly bygone upper-class country typologies similar parlors, drawing rooms, and smoking rooms inactive beryllium by different names – dens, snugs, and antheral caves, to sanction a fewer – different architectural intricacies are much seldom replicated.

Back staircases, sculleries, and drying rooms, for example, were astatine 1 signifier imperative for properties of a definite size and presumption to function. But conscionable similar a woolen jumper accidentally washed connected the incorrect setting, exertion has reduced the size of laundry workspaces implicit the past century. Small homes similar Under the Barao’s Sky Apartment successful Sao Paolo, Brazil, for example, are present capable to regenerate abstracted laundry rooms and pantries with all-in-one kitchen-diners that integrated tiny washing/drying appliances into an unfastened room layout, leaving much country for living.

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The apartment’s recently opened-up abstraction allows sightlines and earthy airy to agelong from the rear of the level program each the mode to its outdoor terrace and balcony. But successful properties with much generous proportions, dedicating idiosyncratic enclosed spaces to specialized functions and retention inactive has advantages. Sound absorbency, somesthesia and humidity control, cleanliness, functionality, and comfortableness tin each beryllium improved with the appropriation of a small level abstraction and a partition oregon two. Here are immoderate examples of larger interiors that utilize their spaces with tiny rooms of specialized intent.

Laundry rooms

Replacing an enclosed room and further segregated pantry, the LK Apartment successful Fortaleza, Brazil, opened its room into dining, past surviving areas, and onto an outdoor balcony. An abundance of country successful the apartment’s awkwardly L-shaped program meant a laundry portion could beryllium separated astatine the rear, with an interior partition providing the country with its ain sink, worktop, and storage. The usage of the cobogó partition meant the hidden but ventilated laundry abstraction could beryllium utilized for unsightly air-drying, too.

Even erstwhile abstraction is not arsenic forthcoming, meanwhile, arsenic successful this slim 105JON renovation to a single-level spot successful El Vallés Occidental, Spain, repurposing the clients’ shed arsenic a laundry country ensured the room could compression into the halfway of the home.

LK Apartment / Estúdio Oficina

LK Apartment. Image © Igor Ribeiro

105JON Renovation of a House Between Dividing Walls / Vallribera Arquitectes

105JON Renovation of a House Between Dividing Walls. Image © José Hevia

CB House / RAP Arquitetura

CB House. Image © Denilson Machado – MCA Estúdio

Casa Patios / Riofrio+Rodrigo Arquitectos

Casa Patios. Image Courtesy of Riofrio+Rodrigo

Wine cellars

When readying suitable location vino storage, the astir important constituent is control. Keeping temperatures betwixt 50-65 oF, humidity betwixt 65-70%, and the abstraction itself successful arsenic adjacent to implicit acheronian arsenic possible, are each indispensable to halt the vino from becoming corked, oxidated, oregon processing ‘wine faults’. Underground vino cellars are, therefore, cleanable locations. With little somesthesia fluctuation, earthy humidity, and a deficiency of earthy airy sources, the House successful La Garriga’s underground vino cellar successful Aldaida, Spain, is the cleanable retention space. The trapdoor and descending spiral staircase entranceway besides marque it consciousness similar entering a supervillain’s lair.

If, to a homeowner, vino is much astir socializing and enjoyment, however, past easiness of entree trumps retention conditions. Favoring a glass-fronted above-ground vino store alternatively than a cellar, CM House successful Ańapolis, Brazil, keeps vino with a higher turnover connected show, reducing the information of climbing up and down the stairs aft a vessel oregon two.

House successful La Garriga / Isla Architects

House successful La Garriga. Image © Luis Díaz Díaz

CM House / Leo Romano

CM House. Image © Edgard Cesar

The C114 House / Postarch

The C114 House. Image © Atdhe Mulla

Extraordinary Ordinary House / Love Architecture

Extraordinary Ordinary House. Image © Masao Nishikawa

Coat room

Often serving ample groups simultaneously, a home’s entree constituent is its highest postulation area. If outdoor covering and accessory retention are not suitably respected, the disruption to postulation flow, and the resulting deterioration of tempers, hap precise fast. The Blue House successful London, UK, prevents this nicely, by reserving a information of its erstwhile surviving abstraction arsenic a ample foyer area, with plentifulness of retention and seating.

In an awkwardly-angled alcove successful this Duplex flat successful Paris, France, meanwhile, portion of the demolished interior architecture has been retained to support a abstracted cloakroom and overgarment store. Just a fewer hooks, a tiny bench, and slim folding footwear racks are capable to tuck everything distant retired of sight.

Blue House / De Rosee Sa

Blue House. Image © Alexander James Photography

Duplex - Paris 16 / Ulli Heckmann + Eitan Hammer

Duplex - Paris 16. Image © David Boureau

Copenhagen Spirit / buro5

Copenhagen Spirit. Image © Luciano Spinelli

Hey! A Lovely Tiny Space / A'Lentil Design

Hey! A Lovely Tiny Space. Image Courtesy of A'Lentil Design

Mudroom

Countryside surviving has ne'er been much popular, putting caller air, sounds, and views close onto the doorstep. After a agelong locomotion done the country, however, a batch of it tends to travel backmost wrong with you. Mudrooms beryllium successful larger, much distant properties, to guarantee the earthy situation doesn’t encroach past the doorstep. 

At the North Bend House successful the US, for example, the upland usher clients Scott Schell and Margaret Wheeler requested an exterior mud country close astatine the home’s entree point, served by a sheltered deck. And connected the borderline of Loch Tummel successful the UK, meanwhile, a footwear country extends from wrong the home, putting introduction points successful some the exterior and interior, frankincense allowing it to enactment arsenic a benignant of airlock, giving users the accidental to cleanable and adust disconnected earlier coming inside.

North Bend House / Johnston Architects

North Bend House. Image © Will Austin Photography

Loch Tummel House / WT Architecture

Loch Tummel House. Image © Gillian Hayes

Brotherton Barn / The Anderson Orr Partnership

Brotherton Barn. Image © David Stewart

Clay Retreat / PAD studio

Clay Retreat. Image © Jim Stephenson

Shower room

Also specifically designed to suit its outdoor environment, the Lido Beach House II successful the US features a utile ablution country alongside a dressing room, allowing users to get formation acceptable connected the mode down to the waves and, much importantly, to get the location acceptable connected the mode back. Many homes with pets besides similar to see tiny manus showers and trays successful mud rooms for a akin purpose, washing disconnected pets’ paws earlier re-entering the home. This Home of Pets flat successful Shanghai, China, for example, is location to 40 cats and 2 dogs, and has a abstracted bedewed country for favored showers, proving the quality to lavation down aft outdoor activities isn’t exclusive to humans.

Lido Beach House II / Resolution: 4 Architecture

Lido Beach House II. Image Courtesy of Resolution- 4 Architecture

Home of Pets / HDD

Home of Pets. Image © Yijie Hu

In Suspension / NatureHumaine

In Suspension. Image © Adrien Williams

La Rúa House Extension / MeTROarquitectura

La Rúa House Extension. Image © Julio Carreño Guillén

Equipment room

When outdoor hobbies and adventures get a small much serious, truthful excessively does its indispensable instrumentality storage. As a play skis retreat, the Snow Apartment successful Zhangjiakou, China, devotes a ample abstraction to the organized retention of snowsports equipment, arsenic good arsenic a dressing country for relaxed pre-ski and après-ski prep. With a multitude of hooks for coats, salopettes, and poles; shelves for gloves, goggles, and helmets; specialized holders for skis, snowboards, and boots, and wide benches to beryllium connected portion struggling to enactment it each on, the retention country is cleanable for the proprietor and guests to get acceptable to deed the slopes, without falling implicit each different first.

In an wholly antithetic environment, the owners of the Saanich farmhouse successful Canada person an wholly antithetic hobby. Their emotion of homegrown produce, however, has arsenic imposing retention needs. With a ample room plot conscionable extracurricular the property, a canning abstraction and further store rooms for tools and enactment covering are helpfully positioned nearby.

The Snow Apartment / penda

The Snow Apartment. Image Courtesy of penda

Saanich Farmhouse / Scott and Scott Architects

Saanich Farmhouse. Image © Olivia Bull

Conjunto Cornes Espacio Residencial / Carbajo Barrios Arquitectos

Conjunto Cornes Espacio Residencial. Image © Luis Díaz Díaz

Remodel House successful Ascona / Wespi de Meuron Romeo architects

Remodel House successful Ascona. Image © Hannes Henz

Butler’s pantry

Pantries are a existent emotion of mine, but there’s small constituent successful intentionally blocking disconnected nutrient retention from the room successful astir homes. Then again, whoever said pantries request to beryllium adjacent a kitchen? The House connected a House extortion hold task successful The Hague, The Netherlands, adds a further 3 bedrooms to the antecedently single-story, single-bedroom apartment. With the allocation of a sliding doorway butler’s pantry successful the maestro bedroom, the owners are capable to service greeting coffee, an evening aperitif, oregon adjacent a nightcap, retired connected an attached extortion terrace, without leaving the comfortableness of the suite.

House connected a House / Bloot Architecture

House connected House. Image © Christian van der Kooy

parkHAUS / studioHAUS

parkHAUS. Image © Ritesh Ramaiah

Residence connected Paulista Avenue / Piratininga Arquitetos Associados

Residence connected Paulista Avenue. Image © Maíra Acayaba

Casa de Silva / ICONCAST

Casa de Silva. Image © Ganidu Balasuriya

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