This is a postwar ad, but it is an idealized home laundry room with fluorescent cove lighting in the ceiling and big windows for lots of light and, yes, it was something for the rich to which others could aspire. It has to be designed for a mild climate, possibly for a home built without a basement. Those planters with tropical plants next to the glass block windows would not work in a colder climate. Actually, if there was southern or western exposure, the room would be like an oven in the summer with all of that glass block and the plants could be burned by the sunlight passing through the glass block.

There are no kitchen appliances in it because it is a spacious, bright room devoted to laundry with space for the home manager's office, an elevation of the wife's status in the postwar period after so many women had worked outside of the home while men were fighting the war.