Experts Say You Should Avoid These 10 Laundry Room Trends

Good Housekeeping's follow-up on laundry-room trends to avoid is a useful counterweight to the social-feed renovation inspiration most homeowners encounter. The piece warned against design choices that photograph well but live poorly — open shelving in a humid room, white-on-white finishes that show every scuff, oversize stone slabs that age unevenly.

What Murphy Door® brings to that conversation is the opposite framing: the most resilient design choice in a laundry room is the one that gives back visual quiet. A flush-mount door — also known as a built-in door — over a utility column, or a panel that hides a laundry chute access, is a category of detail that ages with the house rather than dating it.

For homeowners planning a renovation through the design-press lens, the press hub tracks where hidden storage has been covered.