With the main bedrooms upstairs, having the laundry upstairs would be much better. Not having to lug clothes up and down the stairs is really nice. We've had both upstairs and downstairs laundry and much prefer upstairs. If you repurpose the laundry area downstairs, I'm not sure it's big enough to have an office in. Maybe a larger mudroom area with sink and storage?

It's too hard to see the plans. Can you make it larger?

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During the day, I spend time on the main floor, so that’s where I like my laundry. I would never switch my loads if they were upstairs! Also, I often do laundry after the kids have gone to bed.
Where is your playroom? Because that is a must.
As is a mudroom. Make the pantry a reach-in so you don’t have a pinch point in the mudroom.

I think it depends. In my previous house all the bedrooms where upstairs, I wasn't working and had kids at home. Laundry was upstairs. In current house the master is on the main level and we have a walkout basement which has 2 bedrooms and office. I have one adult kid still at home in one bedroom and I work out of the house in the office. Laundry is down there. I do laundry while I work so it works out well having it down there.

Why not design a space for laundry on both floors? A stacked, compact washer and dryer takes up very little space. As your kids grow they can dontheir own laundry. having two sets allows you to eother have two different loads going at rhe same time or allow rhe kids to have their own set.

designing an small nook for a stacked compact set and having water, sewer and power in place would be wise. 2nd floor bathrooms are great for this as they need all of these ultilities anyway and its a minimal exta cost. The nook can have shelving in place until laundrybis needed.

I do all my folding watching tv so for us main floor laundry is better. We also have three kids and a dog so being close to garage when they come in wet and dirty is handy.

Your master bedroom seems quite small compared to rest.

First your master size is fine.

The big question is would you rather run upstairs to switch laundry and then take it out and put it away where most laundry is generated or would you prefer to carry it downstairs to put in a W/D and then bring it back upstairs? As you can see, a lot depends on how YOU live your life.

Master size is relative. It’s same as ours and I would have built bigger if we could but our top floor ratio was maxed. It fits a king sized bed, two side tables and a dresser and that’s it. A bit more space would have been quite lovely overall and if I had fewer constraints I would have wanted it. As with laundry everyone lives differently. Now is the time to catch size things and think on if they work for you.

What type of stairs do you have leading to the second floor? In two of my previous houses I had two stories and basement, with the LR on the first floor. I never had a problem lugging the laundry basket up and down the stairs, and regard it as desirable physical activity. But I will always remember coming down the stairs in one house and almost falling with the basket. I would have gone head first into the front door and probably would have been severely or fatally injured, so I just let go of the basket and grabbed the rail. The next house the stairs had a landing mid-way. This is an important consideration. Safety is crucial in your decision making.

Thanks, everyone! Our current master bedroom is only about a foot wider than this plan and we have plenty of space. We have a dresser and two nightstands, and almost all of our clothes are hanging up in the closets. Our two dogs also have their beds in the room and we had a bassinet attached to the side of our bed with plenty of space next to it. I think we should be fine, especially having two closets. In terms of the laundry room, growing up my parents had the laundry room on the second floor where we all slept and it was really convenient in terms of hanging and folding laundry. We could hear it if we did a load at night, but it didn't bother me at all. In my current house we have it on the first floor. We have really tall ceilings, a long flight of stairs, and on top of that, I am 5'2" with short legs, so I hate lugging the laundry up and down the stairs because it's just awkward to carry. I think we are going to go with moving the laundry to the second floor and extending the powder room, current laundry room (which will be a small office), front door, and porch out about a foot to make the office a little wider.

The room off of the dining room is going to be a sun room and playroom for the kids. We are asking that the doors be removed and possibly making the walls pony walls. We do a lot of cooking and baking and we have quite a few countertop appliances, which is one of the big reasons for the large pantry. We plan to store all of the countertop appliances in there. Our current kitchen is similar sized, but we have a very small pantry and I cannot stand it. It's constantly cluttered and our cabinets are full, so the large walk-in pantry was my non-negotiable on this.