Bumping up. I am working on my laundry room too. I will get back to this tonight. But for now I didn't want this post to fall off the page.

Can you stack them and put them to the right of the utility sink (doors facing the laundry room door) without having to change plumbing and venting?

Thank you, Rita!

benjesbride - I don't know how moving them to a different wall can be done without changing the venting. The backs of the machines are currently against the right wall, which is where the plumbing and venting are located. Moving them next to the utility sink would put their backs against the far wall.

For clarity, the left wall and far wall are both exterior walls. And it seems pretty simple, to just move them over to the far wall and vent directly outside. But experience has taught me that nothing is that simple when it involves exterior upper level work here. And is generally double-your-project-cost expensive.

I do think I could move the sink over to the right wall, since there definitely is already plumbing in that wall (beyond the washing machine, the wall also backs up to a bathroom). So hopefully the plumber won't tell me it is a giant tear-your-house-apart job. But I feel like that just breaks up any chance of a long run of countertop space....

Are you on a slab or do you have a basement below the Laundry Room? If a basement, moving plumbing should be relatively easy.

Venting to the outside, though, may be tougher -- what is the exterior? Does the Laundry Room face the front, back, side?

The laundry room is on the second floor. So living space below. Any plumbing access would be through the walls.

The left wall of the laundry faces the front of the house, the far wall faces the side. But like I said - the scale of the house, plus the narrow space between the neighboring home, has made any other upper floor exterior work require scaffolding, at a HUGE expense. So my hope is not to incur that expense by keeping the venting on the wall it currently is on.

I'm curious why the door opening is so wide at 3'10"? Typical door widths are 30" and if you reduced the door width you would gain valuable wall space for a standard or even 30" depth cabinet/countertop to run the full width of the washer/dryer wall.

That door width, to me, seems like the obstacle. Otherwise you could move your utility sink over to the w/d wall and put in a long 24" (or deeper) countertop with cupboards above. On the wall where you have a small table now (between door and window) you could do a narrow tall cupboard to store brooms, etc.

Typical door widths are 30"

Actually typical door widths nowadays are 32" to make it accessible.

I agree with course about the door width. A 36" door would be large enough. I think the idea course came up with would be a good one.

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate the graphics to get a sense of it visualized!

The interior opening of the door is 33". The measurements on the floorplan include the molding around the door. The molding CANNOT be removed. It is original to the 1850s home, and matches the molding throughout the house. Now I could conceivably place a cabinet OVER the molding. But I worry about how that will really look, in terms of feeling like I boxed everything in right as you enter the room.

I am attaching a picture of what that corner looks like, with the molding and visible wall space. The light switch for the room is also there, but conceivably I could get the electrician to move it.

Beautiful! I bet a good carpenter could build cabinetry that goes around or otherwise protects/preserves the door molding.

If you don't mind the open storage concept, you could also just hang brackets on the wall (maybe with a shelf above) to hang a broom or two on.

Question: what is the distance from the actual door opening to the w/d wall? And is the door molding itself 6" thick?

The distance between the interior edge of the door opening and the wall corner is a little under 17"

I do think the cabinet guy could build over the molding. I just wonder how that will really LOOK, with the cabinets overlapping one entire side of the door, and squeezed right up next to you on your left as you enter. But it is definitely a possibility.

I don't want exposed shelving, as the laundry room does a fair bit of unattractive storage, so that just defeats my purpose of prettying-up this room. While I'm not totally opposed to a broom or two being exposed, I do want the vacuum cleaner hidden. And at that point, I should have a tall door I can hang the broom inside of.

Sigh. Why are the smallest spaces always the hardest!?