She probably doesn't want to carry a loaded laundry basket multiple times a week from one end of the house to the other, up and down stairs, thru the middle of the great room, etc.

That is a large room. I once had my laundry in a closet behind beautiful bifold wood doors. With that much space wouldn't even have to be stacking.

Can you build out a walk-in closet and put the laundry in it? That is my dream!

Somewhere on Houzz is a home with a kitchenette and laundry off the master bedroom, but I can't readily find it. Don't even have to go downstairs for that morning heart starter. If you incorporated it near the ensuite then plumbing would be convenient.

Neat photo... looks to be a wine fridge there as well!

Couple of ideas - and don't forget an ironing board

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Thanks for all the comments. We are moving the laundry area up from the basement; we have a small circular staircase down, which could become treacherous. We will have 22 x 13' to work with, & hope we still will have the space we need with our furniture. We're trying to keep the cost down, and are still in the idea stage. 12 x 13' will be added, with the bathroom on one side. On the other, facing the backyard, we hope to have a window seat with closets on both sides. I think there may be a lot of possibilities, and I'm searching. There is a kitchen on the other side of one side wall, and the 4th side is an outside wall. Thanks!

Make sure you check out the codes in your area. In my township, they won't allow an oxygen sucking dryer to be in a bedroom or bathroom. I understand the reason in the broadest of terms, but ... really?

The other aspect to putting a dryer especially in a bedroom is the fire danger and there is a lot of flammable materials in a bedroom wardrobe especially. Do you have space to incorporate the machines under the bench in your kitchen or stacked in a cupboard. I certainly agree with your thinking on the circular staircase.

It's a good point about the fire hazard. I'm hoping we'll have enough space for a little room between the bathroom and the bedroom. Maybe that's the best way to go. I think we may have to take out a window to make it work.

Make sure you vent it well and put a smoke alarm in to be sure.

Back when I was a newlywed, we had a stacked WD right by the bedroom in a closet. Loved it! Why so many floor plans put the laundry room right by the garage, when the laundry comes out of bedrooms, is beyond me.

pcmom, here it isn't where the washing comes from, it is what happens to it when it is washed. We use clothes lines and dry in the sun so having the laundry close to the outside is very important to minimise the carrying of wet washing.

Olldroo, where are you? I grew up in foggy Berkeley, CA with a clothesline for 11 years. Don't know how my mom ever got the clothes to dry. That is true. If you hang outside you need the washer close to outside!

Australia. Sometimes designers just don't quite catch up do they.

Yes, most, I believe by the looks of some floor plans, have never done the laundry. My pet peeve is seeing a two story home, where most bedrooms upstairs and the "laundry room" is way on the opposite end of the first floor! There needs to be a stacking WD somewhere up there before someone breaks something falling down the stairs. Hard to see with a large basket in your arms!

They could bring back the laundry shoot and the dumb waiter.

pcmom - I believe there are issues with laundry chutes, they can be a fire hazard. If a basement dryer caught fire, flames and smoke can be sucked up the chute and through the upper floors of the house. It really comes down to climate and what works best.