Ditto! That sounds like an excellent idea!

Like this?

Can you draw up a floor plan of the whole floor with dimensions?

One thing to note... We have a laundry closet within our bathroom and I think it's 3.5' deep and 5.5' wide. Is your closet deep enough?

Amazing, AZ wildcats! I have that exact photo saved as my inspiration. Hard to tell from the photo but I think I'll have more width to work with. I have a total of 45 1/4 inches of closet width, and that Samsung set is 27" inches wide. Do you think this is a better option than integrating it inside the bathroom? It would certainly be easier/cheaper I bet, than bumping and reconfiguring walls in my bathroom to add laundry. And, I actually love the look of it.

BenjesBride, can you send me a pic of yours, I'd love to see how others look. The one photo above is the only one I've found in stackable. Most are side by side but we don't have the space. Do you find it hard to reach the top machine? How tall are you?

Here is a sketch that DH drew up of the space/measurements. We have 45 1/4 total width and 86 1/4 height from floor to ceiling. The recessed hallway area next to the closet is the doorway to our garage. We considered opening the whole area up, but it means knocking a wall and added expense only to gain a about 14 inches. So, probably not worth it.

Hmm, photo didn't attach. Let me retry...sorry!

Houzz seems glitch-y right now, so I can't attach photo. My measurements are 45 1/4 inches wide, 37 3/4 inches deep and 86 1/4 inches tall. Samsung Stackable laundry (model in photo above) measures 27 inches wide, 78 inches tall and about 33 inches deep, plus a necessary extra 5 inches for exhaust elblow... might be too tight on depth to have doors.

I would move it in a heartbeat! My other house is a tiny Cape with only one bath. A second would be heavenly!

I don't have a picture, but our machines are side by side. I have Elfa wire shelving above that goes the full 5'6" width of the closet; above machines is a 20" deep shelf where I sort dirty clothes and then there are two shallower shelves above for storage. Our house is small so the storage is needed for extra TP, papertowels, soaps, lightbulbs, etc. The laundry closet was super important to me. I had a small laundry room in our last house and I find this laundry closet--which is in a bathroom--to be wonderfully efficient.

Still easier than the bathroom wall knockout...could you widen your hall closet a little and have the w/d side by side with shelving above them and be able to close the doors?

You have to add doors both for aesthetics and for noise. What about a pocket door?

Yes, a pocket door is an option. I also found a few other highly rated front load stackables (LG) with a more shallow profile so the Louvre doors as in the photo should work. I cant accommodate side by side w/d without knocking walls down which then becomes a more costly project. The bathroom will also getting a remodel (new post on that, to follow) once the washer and dryer are removed to add either a tub shower combo or just a shower unit. I'd rather put extra money into higher end bathroom finishes vs wall removal.

And.......done!!!

DIY sign..

Laundry closet is behind double door in hallway... (and new bathroom straight ahead!)

And Voila!!! My new full size stackables, with deep built in shelving... and I'm happy to report that about 10 loads of laundry later, I'm loving it!

Nice!

Perfect!

wonderful idea and it looks great!

Love it! Good decision to create a laundry closet.

I'm not opposed to laundry in a closet, but it has to be done RIGHT.

I had a laundry closet in my first house: It had bi-fold doors and opened into the kitchen / formed a barrier between the kitchen and the living room. It did not function well for several reasons -- all of which are fixable, but deserving of mention:

- It had no sound insulation, so we could hear the laundry running in all public areas of the house.

- It had no space for dirty-baskets-waiting-to-go-in. As a result, we always had dirty piles of laundry on the kitchen floor; clearly, this was less than ideal. Since we now have front loaders /stacked machines, obviously they're the best option for a cramped space. Then you could have something like Elfa shelves built into the wall for your waiting baskets.

Thanks, mrs pete. We made the most with the space we had. (reveal pics above). No room for waiting baskets, but I did purposely have the contractor put "french" doors on that can open flush against the walls so that when open, does not block traffic flow in the hallway. I don't like bi-folds - so that was never even a consideration. As for what to do with laundry-in-waiting? I keep dirty laundry in the hampers upstairs, then only bring it down when it's ready for washing. In my old bathroom, with side-by-side laundry, we left dirty laundry in a basket on top of the washing machine which was my biggest pet peeve because it was our guest bathroom. So, with this new system in place, we have no choice but to do away with bad habits! Also, I have no where to store clean, folded laundry anymore. I used to put the basket on top of the dryer when it was clean and folded (then it could be days/weeks before it made it upstairs to be put away.) Now, it gets folded, it gets put away.

I've been trying to figure out how to do this exact thing (yours looks great), only in my main bath, where there is a small separate shower and a stand alone tub with no shower. I would take out the shower, add one to the tub and put the w/d in the space where the shower is now. However, I cannot figure out how you can get behind the machines once they are in place, to hook up the dryer vent and hoses. How have you managed that?

Oly - is there possibly a closet in a room behind for an access panel? I purchased a Speed Queen stack - the controls are all in the middle - and used the w/d closet the PO fashioned in the kitchen next to the refrigerator. I had an access panel cut between the w/d closet and the frig, and had a plumber disconnect the water shut offs inexplicably positioned behind the stack to the side where I can just reach it, as I shut off the water every time after washing . Added panel doors which closely match my kitchen cabs. As the closet leaves NO extra room, like Rebecca above, I too will now be forced into better laundry habits! Despite some inconvenience - there will be NO room for shelves, the luxury of not having to go down into the basement will be worth any and all issues, including noise!

gramarows, thanks for the thoughts. The water lines come out the side of the washer?

Mine would require an access panel in the middle of a bedroom wall. I think it is probably possible to do a panel from the side, which is a wall separating the (now) shower and the toilet. I talked with my contractor about having a shallow in-wall cabinet facing the toilet side, with a removable back to access the dryer vent. But then we got stymied by my requirement that the dryer vent go straight out, through the toilet area to the outside wall so that I can access it to clean it without having to get someone to go into the crawlspace (as it is now) or the attic. I want to be able to clean it myself and I just can't figure out how to vent it. I think I could have an above toilet cabinet with a false bottom or something that the vent hose could pass through to the outside wall, but I just get frustrated trying to figure it out. He just thinks it should go up or down through the wall from the dryer and then outside from the attic or crawl space. I think I need a new set of eyes to try to figure it out, as we are at an impasse and I just procrastinate doing the whole thing.

The back wall of this closet that my laundry is pushed against is our garage, so the electric dryer vents through garage, and right outdoors, through the side of the house. Our water lines are all accessible in case of emergency we have easy access to shut down the water. And the outlets are all on the shelving side of the wall, that we can reach if we need to unplug to reboot anything. If you scroll above and look closely, the top right hand corner above my shelving is the soffit where the water lines connect. And, out contractor build a door to cover the water shut/off valves on the side of the closet where the shelves are.

Thanks for the details on how it all works.