I’m not sure if I understand the problem you are having but I’ll try. If you can’t get the machines into the room, you could remove or move the doors. If you are concerned the doors won’t open after the machines are in the room, again, move the doors. If the exterior is already finished, you may need to add a side light or larger door to help fill in the larger door opening. Hopefully I’ve helped.

Would it be an option to stack them in the middle of the wall and some nice looking storage shelves and cabinets on either side that don't stick out into the path of the doorway? Would they have enough room for the doors to clear them? I hope I'm understanding your description correctly. If not, I apologize.

Do you have front loaders? If you do, the washer needs to be on the left because the door only opens one way and cannot be changed to the other side.

I would move the exterior door all the way to the right and widen the porch as needed to make it look centered..

If you stack in the middle and then a tall pantry/cabinet next to door, that seems to work yes?

Here's a pix showing the W/D sticking out further and the adjacent cabinet shallower. This pix shows a countertop w/sink, but I like the pantry/broom closet idea. Great.

Note - you'd use end panels around the W/D similar to how you'd build cabinets around a refrigerator end panels.

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Hi Liana-

I would move the sink closer to the door. Then move the washer and dryer next to the sink, whether stacked or not.

I would not have two sinks in your mudroom/laundry room, that wastes space. How filthy do your mops get anyway that you need a totally separate sink for your mops and hand wash? Wouldn't you be washing out the sink if what you wash in it gets the sink dirty? You are wasting valuable real estate on two sinks in that room, please rethink this.

Having only one sink gives you plenty of space to to build a shelf for folding with lots of storage below and storage above, or drying racks that drop down or racks that stay up, there are many types. You can have drawers with built in drying racks for sweaters, spaces for laundry baskets, carts on wheels, whatever you can think of.

On the other side of your mudroom laundry room you can have a closet for a mop and broom.

Although please don't think that means you don't need a broom closet in your kitchen, you still do, so please plan for one. You certainly need to plan for a place/closet to keep your vacuum elsewhere on the first floor, and another one on the second floor as well, and a place for your dusters, Swiffers, cleaning supplies, gloves and whatever else you use. A skinny broom closet can't hold all that.

In addition, on the wall opposite your laundry machines, you should have some bench seating with cushions, with cubbies above and below with hooks to hang jackets, backpacks, a dedicated place for an umbrella holder, and you can decide if you want the lower cubbies high enough to hold boots, then scoot in some metal trays lined with pea gravel (the ones from hamster cages work well) or shorter ones to hold miscellany like hats and gloves for the shorter folk, and cubbies above as well.

Cubbies can be labeled with each person's name or even color-coded for the pre-school crowd.

As far as the door dilemma at the end of the mudroom leading to the closet, why not make that a sliding door, similar to a barn door. It requires much less construction work than a pocket door, and it doesn't have to look barn-y depending on the hardware and colors used. It can be all white with a stainless sliding mechanism, it can have a white or black frame with transparent or frosted (think shoji screen) glass panel inserts.

Just be sure to leave a generous amount of room around the stacked units. It would be terrible to build the custom cabinetry to JUST fit the dimensions of what you buy today and then in 10 years a new unit won’t fit. :-/

Change the swing of the door to outswing. Not ideal but the most simple solution.

but will the dryer stick out beyond the door trim? That space looks shallow.

Could you use bifold doors for the interior door that fold into the room on the other side of the wall?

http://www.centerfordivinity.com/images/internal-bi-fold-doors-stylish-interior-bi-folding-doors-uk-bifold-doors-interior/

and/or put both doors closer to the wall opposite the washer and dryer?

You might consider a small deep stainless steel bar sink in an 18" countertop nearer the exterior door in lieu of a larger sink. Choose a faucet with a tall arch.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Elkay-All-in-One-Drop-in-Stainless-Steel-15-in-2-Hole-Single-Bowl-Bar-Sink-HD320874LFR/202503789

We have full-sized front-load stacked and have been running them for a dozen years and like the configuration. Stackable does limit your selection because many pairs are not designed to stack. If you do use those cabinets, just make sure you can easily open up and get behind to clean or service. Maybe I'm missing some trick, but that quad stack cabinet example looks great, but I have no idea how you'd clean the dryer vent hose.

Agree with stevep2005. Stackable are really not the best option. And as you age , you are really not going to want to reach up, either. Stackables are just if you have absolutely no other choice.

Keep only one sink close to the interior door and on the same wall as the washer and dryer. Move the outside door as close to the wall nearest its hinges as it will fit and move the washer and dryer closer to the outside door.

Why can't you place both machines side by side in the middle of the wall? It looks like the doors would have enough room to clear them. And yes the washer needs to be on the left side

I agree with cpartist that the washer works better on the left with the washer door hinges on the left if it is a front loader if you are a righty. (right handed) And then the dryer is on the right with the dryer's hinges on the right.

Maybe if you are left-handed it goes the other way?

Lefties, any comment on that?

I have had stacked washer/dryer combo Maytag, with commercial size front load washer and dryer for a long time. Love them and never had any problems with them. (fingers crossed). I am not sure about the current Maytags, because they went through some corporate difficulties. But like all international companies, they have adjusted.

Liana stacked is fine if you're not vertically challenged. Make sure you can reach the upper knobs of the dryer on top. I am always struggling to do so. For that reason and because I'm no fan of bending down low to get clothes out of the washing machine, and then reaching up to load them into the dryer. Additionally, I'm not a fan of when they're stacked how the washing machine door opens one way, and the dryer door the other way.

You know what, just like someone invented a thing to grab cans off the shelf when you are short, someone should invent something for knobs and dials when you are short, too!

I am always asking strangers in the supermarket to reach things for me!