I'm baaaack!!! Thank you so much for helping me with my powder room, so on to the next dilemma. Any ideas or opinions are welcome (and begged for!). Figuring out where the sink and w/d go are the biggest decisions because it turns out plumbing is one of the first items the builder needs! The room is 15’ 4 “ long and 8’ 6” wide (from wall to wall) I’m sitting here with tracing paper and am already blocked!!!!! :) Hopefully my goals aren't too lofty: Passage way I’m hoping to have a passage way from the closet to get into the laundry room. I love the idea of coming in dirty and just taking my clothes off in the closet and walking them into the laundry room to hang dry or toss in the washer. At the very minimum I want a ‘pass' through so I don’t have to carry baskets or so I can toss in a wet bathing suit. I currently sort my clothes into different baskets as I take things off, so if I only have a pass through and not a walk through, maybe I would stack my baskets on shelves in a cabinet and have that cabinet accessible from the laundry side too. *I want a raised w/d *I’d like one deep counter for folding in which an entire shirt will mostly fit. *I rarely rarely sew, but I’d like a spot to sit and sew on a button or work on a stain etc. *I will want a space for a nice sized pull down ironing board *A big area for a drying racks (hanging and laying flat). I will consider getting a drying cabinet like this one, but it's completely not necessary http://staberdryingcabinets.com *I’d like to have space for a steam cabinet if they should perfect those. The reviews aren’t great. *I was hoping to have a rotary iron for linens, but I don’t know if it will fit. *If I don’t put in a rotary iron, I want a line to hang linens so I can use a garment steamer on them. *There is another area for housekeeping items, so I don’t need to store vacuums etc. If there is room, storing overflow items would be nice (extra tp, suitcases up high perhaps, linens/towels) The venting for the w/d will go through the roof, so the w/d can be placed anywhere in the room. I hear it’s more efficient for the sink and laundry room to be close for plumbing purposes.

In the above photo of our floor plan, the den is actually going to be a playroom. So we don't need to dedicate too much space in the great room for craft tables and such, as those larger items will be go in the playroom...and actually we're finishing our basement in the next couple of years, so there will be lots of room to play at that point. We're also on acreage, so between the basement and yard, the great room will be mostly for watching TV as a family and entertaining. My heart still wants a sectional so badly. I envision evenings of my husband, son (it's a boy!), lap cat and dog (which I've now promised my husband lol) all snuggled on it together.

I like the TV stand you posted, just make sure it is at least 25% wider than the TV. Center it on the wall. Center sewing table on the other wall. Declutter. If the bookcases would fit together on the wall to left of the door that would be great. Maybe do a gallery of the family pictures over the sewing table. You need something much larger over FP, art should be the size of the fire box, that will help with you balance. Hang panels on the windows, rods hung halfway between window top & ceiling and wider than window. I would also paint a lighter color to balance all that is going on in the room. BM Edgecomb Gray is a nice greige so is Balboa Mist

If I were going to make moderate modifications, this is what I would do, as you enter from garage shifting the garage door to L into mud entry w/separated laundry room, walking past new storage/pantry on R and into expanded kitchen - sink wall and range wall extended; larger island; addl cabinetry (or could be furn like sideboard) at stairway wall; shifted sliders to patio towards fam rm; fam room bumped out into yard slightly and fp re-centered accordingly; office footprint enlarged with closets flanking french doors, one facing foyer and other into office. I don’t love the long wide hallway leading into DR from kitchen - dead space, but this is as far as I got during my short commute. Also, furn is NOT to scale and I should have deleted it before saving, but...