At 6 feet x 5 feet, the laundry room isn't "ridiculously tiny". Assuming the distance between the wall and the door is 26 inches or less, you can fit a full-size, stacked washer/dryer pair such as the LG 4000 which requires 29 inches in width* and 34 inches in depth**. Plus removing the wall would require the relocation of hot and cold water lines, electrical circuits, the drain line, and dryer vent.

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*27" appliance + 1" gap on each side; **30-1/4" appliance width + 4" at rear

Maybe the measurements are out, you can't even fit a washing basket in there! I might have to put this idea into the too hard basket for now. It would also mean removing the cabinetry, in the walk in pantry, against the wall I was considering removing. Be helpful if I was actually in the house but we don't close for another fortnight.

Sigh...

We don't know if this is a house or townhouse and cannot determine load bearing walls. However, you have water and a dryer vent in the wall you seek to knock down and that could be expensive.

When spaces are small you have to make the most of them. A stacker washer/dryer works well in a mud room area.

Thankyou for your help. It is a house in Australia, built in the 80s and I daresay the wall is load bearing which puts the idea in the bin. Appreciate the input though!

It seems odd to have a laundry open into a living room. If you remove the door from the living room and add a wide doorway with bifold doors into the family room, then when the doors are open, you would have a wider deeper area in which to work as you could place laundry baskets on the floor straddling the family room and laundry room. This of course would probably lead to laundry taking over the family room. Maybe that is not a bad thing. Mind did and it was a great place to hang out and fold laundry and watch TV.

And yes, although it doesn't change you dilemma one bit, @Patricia Colwell Consulting is correct that a butler's pantry is a hallway for dishes and serving prep that connects a kitchen to a dining room. It looks like you simply have a pantry, which is used for food storage and sometimes kitchen pots and dishes.

What's even stranger is the front door opens to a bedroom with carpet!!!

"What's even stranger is the front door opens to a bedroom with carpet!!!"

That's easily fixable. What isn't is the single bathroom for a four-bedroom house.