Before & After - Half Bath with Laundry
Moira L
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Half Bath located off laundry room
Comments (2)Why not conceal them behind a false cabinet front? The dryer could actually be built into a cabinet with a counter on top and a bi-fold door in front. The top-loading washer might be a little trickier but you could have a special counter made that is on a pneumatic hinge that lifts up(sort of like a toy chest lid) when you need to do laundry but otherwise acts as a countertop. I suppose if you're only concerned with parties and such, you could build a cabinet surround for the washer with brackets on the top to place a removeable "counter" when you have guests over but otherwise store it off to the side. This might get in the way less than a counter that you have to lift up each time you want to load the washer. Have you thought of switching to a front-load washer which could then be concealed easily in a cabinet like the dryer? I've been in a kitchen where I didn't even know there was a washer and dryer because they were built into the cabinets- but they were both front-loading. The other option- can you put up sliding or bifold doors to closet the whole thing in? Or else!! get one of those hospital curtain type tracks and hang a lovely curtain across the whole thing. This way you can simply slide it off to the side when you want to do laundry but could otherwise select a very pretty curtain to hide it away. Amy Fremont, CA...See MoreA small first floor half bath + laundry - What size?
Comments (3)I had a similar arrangement before my remodel. W/D (not stacked) were behind the bifold doors. Toilet (hidden in this photo) was perpendicular to the vanity. The space was about 6'4" x 12'6". The laundry closet was deep enough for the W/D that I purchased 30 years ago, but not deep enough for newer machines. The toilet and vanity were tight, but within code. There was no space for sorting laundry. I put a portable laundry holder thingy in the hallway in front of the bifold doors. I used a living room chair for folding clothes and matching up socks. Remodel is just finished and I don't have a good photo of it yet. I moved my W/D to the 2nd floor hallway, near all the bedrooms - more convenient for me. I expanded the powder room to include a full shower (which is used daily) on the exterior wall (window is inside shower). The toilet was moved 6" to make space for the shower. The vanity is where the washer used to be....See MoreWould you give up your laundry room to add a half bath?
Comments (19)Thank you all again for the feedback. I'm really leaning towards sacrificing the laundry room and going with a powder room. The more I think about it and think about the way I do laundry, I believe the ROI (for me) on a separate powder room would be greater. I'm attaching a drawing, but I there really isn't much to work with. The area outlined it red is initially going to be a family room, but in a couple of years it will convert to an in-law-suite, so we want/need to keep that area separate the way it is (so ignore the bathroom there, that's part of the suite). The room labeled with the red L and blue B is the current laundry room, proposed change to powder room/mudroom. The alcove with the blue L is where I am thinking of moving the laundry, and the red X in the area to the far right is the location of the main floor bathroom in the existing house. And yes, we have walls, I just didn't draw them out! :-)...See MoreDoes this Laundry with Half Bath Layout Work?
Comments (33)I was liking the last design with the washer/dryer in a separate room through the half bath, but my wife has convinced me otherwise. We find utility in the sink in the laundry room and prefer the accessibility of it being next to the washer being important. This allows for a 28" sink cabinet. A change from a similar design to this is instead of a pocket door splitting the cubbies in half the entry to the laundry is now on the right allowing a continuous 86" of cubbies. This also allows us to keep the change from the previous iteration with the main entry door being shifted closer to the laundry so it's more in the middle of the room. I'm actually showing the sidelights at 14" now instead of 12". And we have a great test case for this foyer layout because the foyer in our primary home is exactly 7'-4" wide as well with a bench in the same position relative to the door. Makes us comfortable knowing that the spacing works. The pocket door into the laundry will likely be left open almost all the time. I'd say we shouldn't bother with it, but the cost to add later if we changed our mind dictates that it just makes sense to do it now,. The washer is top load, so no door swing to worry about and the dryer door will swing against the wall. With the pocket door mostly in line with the dryer, that mitigates any concern about the 66" depth to the room. The toilet is now in a water closet, alleviating the concerns that many had in the early comments. If there's still a concern with this overall design it's the comments of guests walking past the laundry to use the bathroom. Given our use of the house, we don't see that as a problem as any guest is likely to be an overnight guest who is as likely to use the laundry as the owners. Also as a weekend home there aren't going to be piles of laundry that will build up. I still don't love the pocket door for the toilet, but I was looking into self-closing mechanisms that are available. Alternatively, we're going to think about an outswing door....See MoreNorwood Architects
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