floating shelves are good for towel storage - can be painted the same as wall color to blend and not feel so bulky A train/hotel type holder is good inside the shower too if wall space is tight....like where they hang in hotels..high and at the back shower wall. You would definately want a higher end all-stainless one if hung there. A more involved fix idea- in two homes we've owned I've "stolen" space for storage by adding wall cabinets that bumped into an adjacent room's closet...such as I took a foot and a half from the back of a hall closet that backed up to a bathroom and used this as an inset wall flush towel cabinet. The coolest space stealer we made was when a bedroom closet backed up to a back shower/tub combo. wall; we built a 14 inch deep niche at the back of the shower (and tiled it in) for towel storage...this was handy storage and worked very well, this was in the mid-90's before the digital age and all this sharing of ideas...I can't find any photos of that. :( Also, even stealing a few inches from any wall and placing shelves that are recessed in and extend out with an 8 inch ledge or so gives you enough for towel storage with less bump-out into a small room. Wonder if I'm clear in comunicating my ideas, but hth.

Either decision would be fine, but putting laundry on an interior wall is just asking for trouble down the line. Dryer vents need to be as short as possible and directly vented to the exterior. Otherwise, you get clogs and a huge safety hazard. And your dryer stops working and you pull out lint balls the size of a poodle. And you're lucky to not have a house fire. I've seen dryer vents through a concrete foundation where moisture collected and made a complet sodden mass with the lint. The homeowner had to abandon that vent and just have ductwork running straight through the master bathroom to the exterior. IT was ugly, and if the laundry room had been sited better, it wouldn't have been necessary. I've also seen dryers vented straight up through the roof where all of the lint falls backwards and clogs it up for an amazing height. Dryer venting is usually an afterthought in most homes. Until there is a problem with it. Which there usually is when a dryer is sited too far from the exterior without a straight vent run. With Jenny's variation, at least you could make the WC wall thicker and run the dryer vent through that to the exterior. You will need to remember that a 4" rigid duct is required and that really won't fit into a 2x6 framed wall and leave any structural integrity left. So, either a 2x8 wall or a small soffit of some sort will be needed.

My closets always have been and always will be creamy white. It just makes it easier for me to see things in there. I tend to use color with some body to it on walls in rooms, and carrying some of those into the adjoining closet could get kinda funky ;) I say that because I've noticed paint can cast reflective color, some more pronounced than others. Along the reasoning that we are careful about color/lighting in a bathroom so our complexions don't take on a greenish cast in the mirror, it seems to follow clothes in closets could also take on reflections from the walls and distort a bit. A scenario like that could get someone like my DH, who's eyes have trouble discerning subtle colors, in trouble. ('your mama dresses you funny' comes to mind ;D All that aside, I truly believe it's just a matter of personal taste. As far as sheen, I've always stuck with eggshell. Less glare that higher gloss levels, and easy wipe of the occasional scuff from tired feet kicking off shoes or stuff getting shuffled around on shelves.

Unless your closets have natural light or are very well lit (and, probably, walk-in closets), I think they will look dingy if painted the wall colors of the bedrooms. Keep them white. Builder's white is not a nice white, however, so I'd find a bright, fresh white. When I staged our house to sell, doing the closets was part of the process. Of course this added to the workload. But I did it anyway. In the case of the wall of large, deep closets in the master bedroom, all I did was seriously declutter them -- removed a very large percentage of the hanging clothes, got matching hangers for the ones that were to remain, and hung those clothes neatly, evenly spaced, and by type and color. I also vacuumed out the closets, including the floors. In the case of a large walk-in closet, I did the same + organized the shelves above the clothes rods. The reason for limiting the work for this closet was that there was no light in it, so new, fresh paint probably would not have been noticeable. But also, the closet wasn't used much, so the older paint job still looked quite good. If there were dings or scuff marks, I'm sure I touched them up. Also, this closet's floors had always been in very bad shape. We had never planned to have those refinished and certainly were not going to do so to sell the house. So I found small rugs that covered the entire floor almost perfectly. Note that the rugs were removable, so potential buyers could see the condition of the floors if they wanted. (No permanent hiding of flaws and no preventing buyers from looking wherever they wanted to!) However, in the case of smaller closets in other bedrooms, I emptied them completely, repainted walls and ceilings in a bright, fresh white (after a real and thorough prep that included ensuring the walls were clean & ready for painting) and replaced only about 1 percent of what had been in them. One closet contained only a neutral off-white canvas clothes storage bag (with a few items in it) and, on the storage shelf above it, a few attractive baskets covered in blue & white material with a few odds & ends in them. The blue & white fit with that room's color scheme. The other bedroom closet contained a very small number of pieces hung on attractive hangers. I probably left something attractive on the shelf. Knowing me, it would have been something that (1) would typically be stored in a bedroom closet and (2) went with that room's color scheme. The point was to let potential buyers see how much storage space was available in this house -- and how attractive and usable it was. Oh, and we had a small closet on the first floor next to the coat closet. The former owner had done a DIY job by putting in cheap particle board shelves. At one point when living there I'd painted them a bright white. But then they looked just like...cheap particle board painted bright white. So I found attractive, inexpensive fabric that coordinated well with our living room stuff and covered each shelf with the stuff. That little, formerly ugly closet looked really good. Notice that, to have closets coordinate with their rooms, I used baskets (and other items) rather than painted the closets themselves. Finally, there was NOTHING on the floor of any closet with the exception of a few shoe racks -- again, with just a few, carefully chosen shoes in them. The workload? If you include all the closets in the house -- and there were a lot of them -- it was enormous. But the house was a Victorian, the majority of which typically lack closet space. So I was showing off a real asset. Actually, I'd have done it regardless, as everybody talks of needing storage space.... Closets are an asset. I realize this is a very long response to your question. For me, at the time, attic to basement staging worked out amazingly well. Whether it would today, in this market, is another question. Maybe such an effort would be pointless, I don't know. But I'd do it again anyway -- anything to make the house look as good as it could.