Through an exclusive relationship with Sotheby’s International Realty, the Wall Street Journal selects high-profile and top-producing real estate agents throughout the world to comment on real-estate related topics.
Sometimes articles are broad strokes about the market, or a private view of an extraordinary homes. Other stories, like the one featuring Andrea Cueny of Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty, focuses on a “micro” – but important – element of the home….the laundry room.
An excerpt from the article on WSJ.com:
First bathrooms became sumptuous spas. Then closets turned into wardrobe showplaces. Now, laundry rooms, among the last frontiers of domestic utility, are getting their due. They are moving out of the realm of the purely pragmatic and into the high tone company of granite, crystal and travertine.
According to Miele, the premium appliance manufacturer, the average person spends at least six hours a week in the laundry room, so it’s not surprising why a homeowner would be reluctant to spend those hours cocooned in a dingy corner of the house.
Andrea Cueny, of Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty, says at the luxury price point, “which we consider anything over a million,” laundry rooms are designed to impress. The finer the home, the more luxurious the appointments. “People are spending more time at home and they have more help in the home–au pairs, in-laws, nannies. They want to make these rooms nicer with more high end finishes,” Cueny says. Many homes in her territory have two laundry areas, one centrally located on the main level and one by the bedrooms.
Please click here to read the entire article about luxurious laundry rooms from the Wall Street Journal.