We added a toilet to our laundry room and I love it...my laundry room is right off of the garage so it's perfect when you're outside and don't want to traipse through the whole house (especially for kids!) I didn't do any separation for it at all. As for resale, I see it as a positive!

Thanks, Cris S! We are thinking it would primarily be a full bathroom but also house the washer/dryer. . . not sure how people generally feel about having those in a bathroom area.

We may opt to just add a toilet and a utility sink . . .

Floorplan showing windows & doors would help.Can you access the exterior from this room OR is it off a hall with an exit door?

My absolute idea of heaven would be a bath (toilet / sink / shower) accessible without going through the living areas. When family members, including dogs, come home dirty it would be ideal. Having a W&D in the same room wouldn't be an issue to anyone, the current machines being very pretty. A spot for a hanging rod (collapsing) and all the soaps & hangers go in the pedestals. No one I know actually folds clothes in their laundry room...they do it in the living room or on their bed...it's more comfortable to fold while seated.

Since your room is about four feet longer than it is wide, you could place your washer and dryer facing each other at EITHER the beginning of the room or at the far end of the room against the outside wall. Add a 2' wide wall between the laundry and the bathroom.

You do need a window in the middle of the outside wall at the end of this long, narrow room -- fresh air and heat and moisture reasons. With this simple plan, you will be either walking between the washer/dryer to get to the bath or vise versa.

In the rest of the room, place a standard sized tub/shower combo on one side (about 2'x5') and your toilet and vanity on the other.

Alternately, you could put the washer and dryer in closets at the beginning of this space and turn each of them toward the hallway or other room from which you access the bathroom that would then be a bathroom only.

You don't want your tub/shower faucet against an outside wall so turn your tub accordingly. You really don't want to sit on the toilet next to a heated dryer in summer so put the washer on the side of the room where you put your toilet.

Thanks for all the thoughts thus far! Here is a floor plan of the current room and the rooms surrounding it. There is only one door to this room from the playroom, from which the kids go in and out to the backyard.

One of the biggest obstacles is the 80" window that takes up more than half of one of the walls . . . we would prefer not to have to move the window (especially since we just replaced all our windows in the house and had them framed out).

One thought we had was to have the washer and dryer under the existing window with a counter on top for folding and the on the opposite wall (the one that separates this room from the bedroom) would be to have a shower in the corner, then toilet, and vanity to the right after walking into the room. Just not sure how people would feel with this being a full bath with the washer and dryer in the same room (they are "pretty" - red LG front loaders, and we could add doors to cover them as well and make it look like lower cabinets.

I have my set in my bathroom. I gutted the room and had all the plumbing and electric redone. I did the tile and contracted out the other projects. This is my floor plane room is 96”x110” about. The blue square in the upper left is where my Euro sized w/d are stacked. I love having my w/d in the bathroom. As you can see I have 2doors into the room.the gray square next to my w/d is a built in cabinet system. The oval in front of the sink is me :)

For resale it's not ideal to have a combo....but....if you really don't have the space...then combo it is.

Do the combo. It will add function. enduring’s setup always wows. BTW, enduring, not to hijack, but can you share the name of your countertop and shower tile? Lovely.

I think an extra bathroom is always a great addition to a house. Having your laundry items in the same room makes good sense to me.

Hi Mom,

We live in a tiny 519 sq foot NYC area condo, our laundy is in the bathroom, we're perfectly fine with it, makes sense for us.

Oh my goodness - thanks for all the useful feedback! So we have decided to go with a combo. It fits our lifestyle with three crazy kids and this room is ideal for both a bathroom (next closest bathroom to this living space is allllll the waaaay across the house which is ranch style single story) and laundry room (no other space in house that would work and right by the door the kids use to go in and out of our backyard).

Now onto if we stack the washer dryer or put them side by side or under the 80" window we have with a folding counter on top . . . putting the toilet or shower there is odd for many reasons and for a vanity, that would mean no mirror above.

MizLIzzie, the tile is Atlas Concorde, Marvel, Calacatta Extra. mine was the matte finish.

https://www.atlasconcorde.com/en/collections/ac/marvel-floor-wall/gres/calacatta-extra/matte/

The counter is a remnant of Carrara.

When I was younger I owned a townhouse with a stackable set in the master bathroom, the small kind of stackable ones. It was fine. Maybe I was young and happy to not go to the laundrymat. For my current remodel I had considered it but decided against it. But that's just me. As a potential buyer, I would not want to look at a W/D in the bath. Can you put them in some sort of cabinet? I've seen pics where people put them side by side and have foldable doors to cover the front of the W/D, so it looks like a cabinet. Looking out the window when you fold laundry sounds great. Will you have some sort of expandable rack to hang clothes as you put them on hangers? I'm not clear on where the bathroom parts will go if the W/D are under the window, but I'm sure you'll figure it out. Maybe you can consult with a designer or someone skilled to help with the layout, maybe someone at a kitchen and bath design store or ? Maybe a 1 hour consultation would reap some good ideas. (?)