Is this new construction? No plumbing or electric as of yet?

I hang most of my clothes after washing, specially the stretchy yoga pants and workout stuff. It all lasts much longer if it never goes in the dryer.

I have this space for air/drip dry. Open below so I can hang pants & dresses.

Made by Ballard, but I don't think they it carry any longer. You could probably hang 2 or 3 bars across the opening and accomplish the same thing.

As millworkman noted, is this new construction or a remodel of existing? If existing, where is plumbing located?

Can you show us more of the plan - specifically, what rooms surround the laundry room?

Ideally the laundry should be on an outside wall, for ease of venting the dryer.

I would absolutely move the door all the way to the left, and I would not have anything turn a corner.

7.5' is not very wide. I have a tiny laundry room - 6' wide x 6'6" deep, with the W/D on the back wall. I have 12" deep shelves opposite the W/D, and it's pretty cozy - less than 3' from the dryer to the shelves, which is barely room for a laundry basket.

I have never had a folding surface in the laundry room, other than the top of the machines. I fold clothes and place them directly into a laundry basket, or put them on hangers. When we still had kids at home, we had a hanging rod in the laundry room; when each person brought their hanging shirts to their room, they brought back empty hangers, or put empty hangers in the basket with the dirty clothes.

the current layout looks good, I wouldn't move the sink, etc for more flat folding space, but would think about wall shelf baskets and base dirty laundry drop.

I like to have wall pull out baskets for socks and undies and lots of hanging space, rather than stacking. Think of setting it up more like a closet, a spot of each member of the family.

AnnKH: "Ideally the laundry (machines) should be on an outside wall, for ease of venting the dryer."

This absolutely ... not just ideally!

I put the question to my 9 ball. Answer was NOPE.

Dryer has to be on exterior wall. Washer needs to be near dryer. Sink needs to be near washer since both must be drained/vented/supplied with water.

Thanks everyone. Sorry for the delay but here is more of the area. New construction.

2nd floor and no exterior wall on this laundry but there is a small hallway to a covered patio.

Laundry is surrounded by closets and bathrooms.

Could move door to left corner, washer and dryer to hallway wall and use smooth pipe to vent it down and out below the patio.

Would love to keep the dwasher and dryer on that wall so its easy to walk in and straight to the washer for drop-off of dirty clothes -even if thats a longer vent. This would allow the entire hallway wall as folding/storage space.

Thoughts?

I guess a lot depends on how you use a laundry room and what you keep in there. Our laundry/mudroom is on main floor and we have all our cleaning things in there as well as coats and shoes and backpacks and laundry. For a second floor laundry your needs might look different. I have hanging above the laundry and over the sink. It’s a rod that we then hang stuff on. Works great. I hate folding in the laundry room so wouldn’t never make space for that but that is a personal take. For me, a smaller laundry room would be preferable and then making other spaces bigger.

Your long vent run makes me nervous.

Our laundry room is interior, because we live in a duplex, so outside walls are at a premium. The dryer vent run is 15' with 2 elbows; we have it professionally cleaned every other year. Our neighbors had a leak in their dryer vent, and ended up with a plugged duct, hot, wet air inside the walls, a burned-out dryer motor, and a significant mold problem (which required weeks of remediation). We didn't have a say in how our house was planned, but if I was starting from scratch, putting the dryer on an outside wall would be a priority.

Consider adding solar tubes to the laundry and that interior bathroom, and maybe to the hall as well. The natural light will be so welcome, and you won’t have to turn on the light every time you need to retrieve a sock, or grab a hair clip in the bathroom.