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13 years ago

I am just coming off of a kitchen remodel, it's done except for the backsplash and some accessories. My next project will be to deal with my 1st floor powder room/laundry room.
It is a nice size space right off of the kitchen. This is the current layout.

From GW Photos

The main entry to our house is through the small area marked 'unheated space' it is basically an airlock. This is cold Maine and the double door area keeps the cold air at bay. In the spring summer and fall we can kick our shoes off in that area and they get stowed in a bench. Backpacks, jackets and other things get left here. In the winter however shoes can not be left in this area. They will freeze to the floor and be way too icy to put feet into. I really need more 'mudroom' space.
I do not want to add sq feet to my house, I do not want to move windows or doors. I don't mind moving interior walls as none in question are load bearing. I also do not like having my laundry room and 1st floor powder room combined. I am hesitant to give up my utility sink. I can move my laundry area to the basement. I will live in this house for at least 5 more years but I will move in 5 - 10 years- this is not my forever house. I have some ideas but I don't want to stifle your collective creative genius. I have given you my needs and my restrictions. WWYD?

Comments (6)

  • 13 years ago

    Can you add a baseboard heater or redo floor in entry area, so that it's heated? Hate to lose that space for year-round use.

    I think I would move the bathroom sink to where you have the dryer and add a wall, with a pocket door...making the powder room a separate space.

    The dryer could go on the other side of the washer...leave the prep sink 'as is' if possible (when adding wall) and make the area next to it a folding area or extra mudroom space.

    If you can heat the entry area, do you still need more mudroom space?

  • 13 years ago

    Thanks LL. I think I do still need more mudroom space, even if I heat the existing. It is just not that functional, more of a pass through and I want a place to sit and pull on boots and simultaneously put on coats.
    Are you saying to put the dryer across from the washer? I hadnt thought of that. I will play around with that idea.
    Thanks again.

  • 13 years ago

    I was thinking washer and dryer next to each other. Something like this...
    {{!gwi}}From Kitchen plans

    With bench under window and hooks above (past window)...with more hooks and a small bench or table, in entry. This would give you a separate powder room space and cute laundry room/mud room area.

    Like this... {{!gwi}}From Farmhouse plans

    Or stackable... {{!gwi}}From Farmhouse plans

    Or make part of the bench a laundry sink, with smaller bench next to it... {{!gwi}}From Farmhouse plans

  • 13 years ago

    Could you possibly fir out the entry way to get enough insulation in the walls (and add a heating duct) to be able to switch the laundry to that space? Then use the window in the current laundry to create a door, and do the powder room off to one side? I know you said no add ons, but if the roof of this area lended itself to it, you could do a covered porch type entry into the space from the L formed by the landry/entry space. That would give you a much larger mud room space as well as a powder room for the mud area. It would be heated as well, even if you didn't heat it to "home" standards.

  • 13 years ago

    How many inches between the dryer and the left wall, in the drawing above?

  • 13 years ago

    Lavender I love the second photo you posted, the stackable one with all the baskets. If I do stackable that will be my inspiration.
    Cottage, I cant answer your question because I am unsure what picture you are referring to.
    Holly- wow you really thought outside the box I would love to do that. I do not think it would look right from the exterior of the house however. And. the appliances would jut into the door way and that would probably bug me.
    The bump out unheated space is actually the main entrance into our house. If we closed off the entry via the bump out people would actually have to walk around it to find the door. I don't think that will work.
    Thank you all for your thoughts and ideas. I will keep plugging away.