guests may get a bit lost.... and you'll have to keep your laundry room tidier, too. plus lose the wall space where the new door would go.

i also have a bathroom off of my kitchen. its an 1870 house, there wasnt even a first floor closet for a previous owner to use, so they put the powder room under the front stairs and code required a wider access door than was possible from the foyer side... so... its in the kitchen. i have a cute sign on the door ( W. C. Mixte ) and when guests ask where the powder room is, i point it out and say 'feel free to use the bathroom at the top of the stairs as well'. sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

i don't 'party in the kitchen' tho. for me, kitchens are for catering staff... whether thats me or someone hired. that makes my situation easy. i'd really not like to expect a guest to wander through a laundry room to find the powder room.

Thank-you!