Just how muddy and how often will it be used? In either alternative above, the initial mud and tracks will be in the corridor don't you think?

I like your idea. We have a small mudroom that continues into the laundry (both small, separated by a door, which I never close). It makes sens to go from mudroom to the laundry

We plan to have some farm animals at some point, detached garage, and anticipate some "dirty" kids, on 10+acres. So, mud is inevitable. Good points about door coming into the corridor. Virgil/Damiarain - so just move the exterior door 6'-8' toward the back wall?

If we keep laundry door where it is, what about the sink - laundry or mudroom? I kinda see benefits in both locations.

Although it seems customary to have mudroom leading to laundry room, ours are at opposite ends of the house. Our laundry room is adjacent to the kitchen, with a door leading to the side deck, providing a short route to the master (in fair weather) via a french doors to the master. It has worked out perfect in the few months we've lived here and several visits from our kids and grandkids.

On the opposite end, visiting kids and grandkids enter a decent sized mudroom, kick off their shoes and hopefully put them on the shoe/boot rack, dry themselves off in the mudroom over heated floors. Two guest/kids/grandkids bedrooms with ensuites, are immediately outside the mudroom hence no chance of bringing dirt into the house.

Having said that, we did our best to build a grandkids proof home, they can run around without us being bothered or worried; hard floors are easy to clean although deep cleaning the vast area takes time however we both share cleaning chores; we are still searching for reliable home cleaners.

I would prefer to have my mud room and laundry room separate. Otherwise, it's far too easy for a child to toss down a dirty backpack/athletic bag on a pile of clean, neatly folded laundry that has not yet been removed. Two separate rooms.

One of my daughter's friends custom built a house on a horse farm in the country. She had the door open directly into the mud room and had a floor drain installed and a hose on a wall faucet so she could hose down her very muddy, filthy girls when they came inside. She kept towels in there so they could wrap their naked little bodies up and then run upstairs for a full bath. All their filthy clothes then went in to the laundry room next door. I thought the floor drain and hose brilliant!

I would definitely want them separate as the original plan shows. I have grown to hate the laundry connected with the mudroom, especially when you have to walk in clean socks over dirty rugs and through the mudroom to get to the laundry machines. I don’t want clean laundry accidentally dropping onto the mudroom floor, either.

Your original plan will work well IMO....you have nice access to the laundry from the inner home without trekking through the mudroom. But the laundry is still very accessible from the mudroom when you need it.

On a working farm, you need the largest mudroom you can get (I speak from experience of a small mudroom/back entry). For each person, count on at least 4 pairs of footwear (leather and rubber boots, clogs, sneakers). If you add hiking boots, snow boots, sandals, you see the problem. Then there will also be barn coats, possibly overalls, jackets, snow gear, etc. I don't mind having laundry in the same room. The boot bench is before the throw rug, so not much dirt gets tracked in. Also have an outdoor shower just outside the mudroom which is wonderful in the summer! Or at least have an outdoor faucet nearby.

Why not put your bench for the mud room in the garage before you enter? Not sure if what is to the right is garage or not? Then the mud stays in the garage. You could have a small full sized bath in that space!

KH - garage will be detached, so the mud area in the garage would not be our ideal option.

Hmm, how about 2 doors into the laundry? Using the second design, add a door on the far right of the hall / laundry? Best of both worlds and you should still have enough counter space for folding, etc.

Consider this concept:

Or maybe this, same concept with different door location to potentially help define two functions in one room.

Consider adding a mid-hallway door to create an airlock of your mudroom. This keeps extremes of either hot or cold air from blasting into the house. When unloading groceries, etc., the mudroom becomes a staging area between the outside and your interior.

What cat lady suggested is a great idea. My Grandma had this on their farm and I plan to do this in our build. I have laundry and mud room together so you enter the house into this room and then pass through door to the kitchen. This closes off the mud room from drafts and I won’t hear the laundry. I have the mud part closest to the door and the laundry closest to the house. I plan to train my kids that there is an imaginary line between the two spaces lol

Mark's second sketch/idea is IMO perfect. But I'd add a door at the end where the window is now for direct access from the outside.

The alternate version makes for a much longer trek to the washer and dryer. I'd keep them separate. We live on a cattle farm and dirty boots are our main issue. Our laundry will be on the other side of the house next to the master bedroom but our mudroom will be by the kitchen door.

I like Mark's suggestion a lot.

I absolutely do not like the mudroom and the laundry room in the same room.

Seems like completely different functions: a mudroom - a place to enter from the outdoors when completely and thoroughly dirty, wet, and/or muddy while bundled in boots/coats/hats/gloves (all of which need to be shed and hung up) while also carrying backpacks, the mail, a purse, groceries, etc; and a laundry room - a place in which to wash/sort/hang up/fold/iron clean clothes.

I understand why these two rooms might be CLOSE to each other, but not TOGETHER in the same room.

the home we bought has the laundry off the garage in a large hallway.. I hate it. It just seems like a dirty spot To have it. Since we come in through the garage 90% of the time I'm always in the way when doing laundry. I would much rather have a separate room