Wandsworth Laundry and Boot Room London

The Wandsworth is the room off the garden door that does two jobs. The laundry takes the long wall: machines under a worktop, a sink, a lit splashback and tall cupboards for the linen and the board. The boot bay takes the short one: an open oak alcove with a row of hooks, a shelf of baskets above and a bench over drawers, so the coats and the shoes are dropped by the door and never reach the kitchen.

The laundry is finished in an olive green shaker with brass bar handles, and the splashback behind the worktop is tongue-and-groove boarding with a lit shelf, which is where the detergents and the plants live. The boot bay is lined in oak so it reads as a different piece, and its bench is the height to sit on while boots come off.

How it works: the laundry run is a set of solid-back carcasses with the appliance bay ventilated at the back, the sink unit carrying the services and the worktop spanning the machines on a rail. The splashback is a boarded panel fixed to a batten with an LED channel under the shelf above it. The boot bay is a separate oak-lined carcass with a solid bench on drawer boxes, hooks fixed through the back panel into the battens, and open cubbies above for a basket per person.

A tall cupboard stands between the laundry and the boot bay, so the two halves are read as one wall with one break in it.

Designed for the door to the garden

A laundry room by the back door is a boot room whether it is planned as one or not. The Wandsworth plans it: the wet, muddy things have their own bay in a finish that takes knocks, the washing has its own run in a finish that wipes clean, and the route from the garden to the machine passes the bench, the hooks and the sink in that order.

• Washer and dryer under a continuous worktop in a ventilated bay
• Sink with a brass tap, services inside the sink unit
• Tongue-and-groove splashback with a lit shelf
• Tall cupboards at both ends for linen, the board and the hoover
• Open oak boot bay: hooks, a basket cubby per person, a bench over drawers
• Olive green factory paint with brass bar handles
• Oak lining to the boot bay
• Built to the ceiling and scribed to the walls

Designed for the room: the boot bay can close with doors, take a raised dog shower in place of the bench, or grow to two bays for a large family; the laundry run can stack the machines where the wall is short, and both halves are made in any of our painted colours with the bay in oak, walnut or paint.

Built for everyday use: the bench is a solid board that takes a sitting adult, the oak lining is lacquered so wet coats do not mark it, the drawers under the bench are on full-extension runners for boots, and the laundry paint is a factory lacquer.

The Wandsworth shown fills a wall about 4.2 metres wide and 2.4 metres high; the same wall is drawn to your room, your machines and your door at the design visit.

Manufactured in our Wembley workshop

The Wandsworth is cut, built and painted in our HA9 Wembley factory from the survey of your room. The shaker doors are sprayed as one batch, the boot bay is lined and its bench and drawers built in the workshop, and the appliance bay is made to the machine drawings.

The wall, the ceiling, the door swing, the water and waste positions, the power and the machine models are recorded at your design visit, and the drawings show your plumber and electrician what to do before we fit.

Quality you can rely on: your Metro fitted furniture comes with a 10-year guarantee covering parts and labour.