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laundry powder room layout

5 years ago

I would like to separate the laundry from the powder. It’s on the 1st floor so guests use it and I hate that the toilet faces the dryer.
The room is 8x8 and I was thinking I would switch the toilet and utility sink (currently behind the door) and put a wall between the toilet and w/d with a pocket door to separate?
I’m not in love with anything here so all suggestions are welcome!

Comments (12)

  • 5 years ago

    I have a powder room/laundry like you are proposing and I love it. Mine is smaller. I don’t have a laundry sink. It’s just my machines in a closet at the far end. Sink and toilet opposite each other. I doubt most of my guests even know it’s the laundry room.

  • 5 years ago

    Can you wall off the washer and dryer and access them from the other side? Think back of where they are now if that wall was a double door. The washer and dryer would be the other direct, turned 180 and open to the other room. I do not know if that is a hall or bedroom. A hall would work and they would be in a totally separate room.

  • 5 years ago

    The toilet and sink wall are on the other side of our living room, the door opens from a small hallway from the garage, and the wall with the toilet paper holder is an exterior wall. The new pic shows you the living room and you can see the bathroom door

  • 5 years ago

    Emilyam819- can you post pics of what you have? I wouldn’t mind ditching the utility sink!

  • 5 years ago

    Kind of hard to get a good photo because of the small space. It’s 6 by 8 total, making the bathroom 6 by 4 and the laundry 6 by 4. You could probably leave the machines how they are, have a regular 36” door instead of bi-folds, and room for a folding counter across).

  • 5 years ago

    I like that! Wonder how much it would cost to switch the toilet for the utility sink.

  • 5 years ago

    Thank you. I plan for a cute cosmetic update. Sure, I’d like a spacious laundry room, but that is not realistic and this setup works great.
    Ask your plumber or other professional what would be cheapest/easiest... moving toilet to the laundry sink area or to the bathroom sink area. Since you have sinks in both locations, you can keep one location or the other, right? And depending on floor joists, the toilet can move easiest in one direction or the other.

  • 5 years ago

    We’re ripping up the hardwood in the room too, so hopefully that makes it easier.
    Thanks for your help!

  • 5 years ago

    If you don't want to move the toilet, this could be an option:


  • 5 years ago

    I like that, but where we’d move the door to has ducting.

  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    True. You might want to get a quote on moving the duct. Maybe, it could go on the wall opposite to where it is now. With the laundry doors, you might have to move the duck there too. I think moving ducks are less expensive than moving a toilet.

  • 5 years ago

    Very true! I hate the way the dryer venting is done anyway so maybe we could do it all.