Would this floor plan work?

**Valerie in WA** · 01-18-2006, 03:00 PM

I'm trying desperately to design my kitchen remodel in an unaccomodating space. One thing that would help enormously would be closing off the door to the laundry room. We would then have to access the laundry via a pocket door in our bedroom.

Our room is 10x10, the whole house is 1000 sq ft, two bed, one bath. The front of the house, is the living room to the West & kitchen/dining to the east. The rear of the house is (from east to west) laundry room, bedroom, bathroom, bedroom. There is a little square hallway, where you stand with your back to the living room. The bath door is in front of you and a bedroom door on either side.

Does that kind of make sense?

Anyway would it be too weird to access the laundry via the bedroom?

TIA!

**YankeeMom** · 01-18-2006, 03:53 PM

I don't think it would be too weird to enter the laundry room via the bedroom. It's not like guests will ever need to use your laundry room.

We had a house in AL where our laundry room was also the entryway/mudroom from the garage. I always thought that was odd. I was always trying to stash laundry (clean/dirty) in case guests stopped by & used that door

**homesteadmamma** · 01-18-2006, 04:02 PM

I don't think it would a problem at all.

**Englishlady** · 01-18-2006, 04:09 PM

It's a shame you can't post pics.........I changed the original kitchen here, then tweaked it some more to make maximum counter space...........

In the UK there is a very NEW trend of putting a laundry cupboard UPSTAIRS either within or next to a bedroom, the theory being,that laundry orginates from upstairs and so why should we lug it all the way DOWNSTAIRS to wash?

So if you decide to access YOURS through a bedroom you will be at the cutting edge of European design

**Valerie in WA** · 01-18-2006, 04:29 PM

I could post pix, but I think a drawing might be more helpful. Let me see what I can do.

**Valerie in WA** · 01-18-2006, 05:24 PM

Okay, here's a drawing.

The problem with the kitchen is that the left hand (plumbing wall is under 9 feet and the L shape to the right is 5 ft x 5.5 ft, which makes it impossible to fit the fridge or stove in that corner. Dh doesn't want to move the plumbing. Even with adding an island or a penninsula, we can't work this out. I think we will either close of the utility room OR reverse the kitchen and dining rooms (it's all one big open rectangle.

Thanks for looking & suggesting! I've been

for days.

**forestdale** · 01-18-2006, 05:33 PM

I think it makes perfect sense, Valerie. You will have more wall space in the skitchen and have acccess to your bedrooms from the laundry, which is where most of your clothes will need to be taken to. Do you have a linen cupboard?

When I re-designed our kitchen, I closed off the door to a "formal" dining room, which I really didn't like. It was wasted space as far as I was concerned to have a dining room that was not used everyday. I closed off the doorway and DH plastered the wall to look like a wall should and we used that extra space to put in our kitchen cupboards. If you have a look at the pics of my kitchen, the area just to the right of the stove top used to be a doorway.

**Valerie in WA** · 01-18-2006, 05:42 PM

The bathroom cabinet is big. Each square on the graph is about 1 foot (3 squares = a metre). Anyway, I keep towels in the bathroom cabinet, as well as regular 'bathroom stuff' (hair do-dads, toiletries, etc), and cleaning supplies. I stick our two extra sets of sheets in the girls' closet.

Oooooohhhhh, what if I made the laundry into a walk-in closet as well? (Oh, wait, the litter box lives in there - maybe not.)

**Valerie in WA** · 01-18-2006, 05:45 PM

Now the other drawback is when I line-dry, I'll be dragging a heavy basket of wet clothes through the whole house. Guess I won't need to worry about lifting weights.

**guest32** · 01-18-2006, 05:58 PM

I think that looks like a good plan. Could you put an exterior door in the laundry...for taking clothes out to hang?

**Valerie in WA** · 01-18-2006, 06:12 PM

We've considered that. At one point, our plan was to put on an attached garage that entered thru the laundry room. But I'm not sure I want that coming into my bedroom.

Maybe we could put a sliding glass door and patio off our room. Sometime later - $$.

**momof42003** · 01-18-2006, 06:57 PM

My sister relocated her laundry area to the back porch off of her bedroom... She actually likes it, because when she does the folding, she does it on the bed, which she then has to have made, and can't go to bed until the bed is cleared off... LOL She does have a back door though that leads to the yard.. So having the laundry off your bedroom makes sense to me...