Agree. I have a single french door with glass panes to let light from the room with a window into the foyer that works well. If space is an issue, use a pocket door with glass panes. Easy to install now while construction is going on.

You can leave the door recessed in the wall until you need to close it to mitigate laundry noise.

Don't think I've ever closed our laundry door once. However, it's downstairs on the lowest floor, opening to an exercise and crafts area, so noise isn't an issue. If yours is nearer to main living areas, you might want to close it off.

Would be nice to see photos. Even without seeing it, I would vote for no doors, especially if the laundry is in a "private" part of the house. Nowadays, washers and dryers are very quiet so I don't think noise would really be an issue. Also, it's more convenient not to have a door to that area since you will be accessing the laundry area a lot.

Put in a frosted glass door. Keep the noise down, let some light through and keep the mess out of sight.

I agree that it depends on what rooms will be affected by the noise. My laundry room is off the kitchen. Most of the time, noise isn't really an issue. But there are just some times that I find it irritating, so I close the door.

Am 100% happy we have a door on our laundry room. It is on same floor as our main open concept rooms.

My 7' x 5' laundry "room" is a corridor off the kitchen connecting the garage to patio with the powder room on one side. No door ever needed.

I close the door each time I do laundry. It is off of a room that we use as my husband's office during the day and TV/den at night.

I'd do a heavy duty pocket door so you have the option to close it if you want. We put pocket doors in our kitchen to close off sounds, smells, messy sink. They are really solid and do a great job of sound proofing.

I want to hear when my washer is done so the noise has never been an issue. I don't do laundry when it would be anyway. My door never closes. You didn't really say, is the laundry still upstairs? Good friends built slab on grade, laundry just off kitchen they did the frosted glass. I was never sure why. It wasn't light. I think I would want the machines out of sight when not using them., being basement dwellers they are fine in the mechanical room with the door open.

You do You and what suits you and your family. My washer/dryer is part of my mud room/ side entrance that has a doorway with no door to my kitchen.

It depends largely on where the laundry room is located and what other rooms it is adjacent to. Can understand not wanting to lose the light from your window. Other posters have suggested a French door. That seems like a very reasonable suggestion.

Depending on how the room is situated, you may want even want double doors, and leave them open to let the maximum light into the hallway. Without seeing your arrangement of window and proposed wall plus door(s), it's hard to give specific advice.

Our LR is in the front of the house, near two guest rooms and a bathroom. We have nice cabinets in there and it is always presentable. We never close the door; when we have guests that use 1 or both guestrooms I never run the machines until every one is awake. It really is up to how each person wants to use their home. To some folks seeing the appliances is not desirable; but most people have some type of laundry appliances and it is commonplace to see them. I have never had a close friend or family member comment on seeing the LR when they walk past it.

We don’t close ours because it’s visually unappealing. I close it so when we watch tv i don’t hear the dryer running.

The laundry room is still on the second floor. On the second floor is the master suite, kids’ bedrooms and kids’ bathroom. The entrance to the current laundry is the same as before the reno. There used to be a set of bifold doors to close it off when it was essentially a closet. The current doorway is as large as it can be. So a wall would take up half the space. I've requested a pocket door as i think one that opens inward would forever be in the way.

In our old house the laundry was in a utility closet and we kept the doors closed. in our current place the laundry is in a garage entrance mudroom with kid bedrooms close by. we've never closed that door.

I appreciate everyone’s comments.

It depends on the location of the laundry room in relation to teh rest of teh house. My laundry is in the mudroom, right off the kitchen. I have a slider door, which I try to keep closed when the machines are running. Doesn't block the noise as thoroughly as I'd like, but I've no room for a regular door and don't want to jack everything up by re-jiggering for a pocket door.

Disagree modern marchines aren't noisy -- it depends. My Miele is a beast on the max spin cycle, there's no way you can't hear it unless you're deaf (but even then you can feel the vibrations in the floor...)