sorry for the mess of a post! first time posting and thought i could edit!!

You will get better help if you post a better drawing (graph paper is great) with more detailed measurements -- door opening widths, interior wall to wall measurements. Inches matter, people are just guessing without the info that will dictate what is possible.

Begin with the fact you do NOT want a powder room directly off a family room.

Add that there are other issues here, that seem to include a lack of storage, particularly kitchen and mud and general disorganization that complicates both issues..

We'd agree that traipsing in wet from the pool is not the best, but water is a TOWEL ISSUE a mat outside the door and a bit of a dry off.

Yes, you need a very accurate drawing to the inch, more pictures, following the distracting clutter would also help.

If you have the floor plans for the house, that is helpful, as well.

You will reconfigure the area that encompasses the laundry/bathroom/pantry and hall closet and it would be accessed from the garage hallway instead. A drawing with dimensions is needed. You also have to consider where would the shower space come from. Can you give up the pantry or the hall closet for instance. If loosing the hall closet is a problem then you have to look for areas where it can go instead like the hall closet closer to the front entrance by giving up some office space for a closet. This is just an example.

put an entry door into the garage from the pool-problem solved.

thank you all so much for your responses! i will work on a better drawing asap. in the meanwhile the utility space is 8’x11’ ish and the laundry, powder room, closet and pantry can all be opened up. you all saw the issues right away! my dream for the space is maybe too big but i lovvvve efficiencies. the dream is that the office and family room will be a space that can act as a suite using the utility space as closet, (even if its just hooks in a hallway) bathroom, laundry and garage entrance while still being accessible to the rest of the house in the least expensive way possible! tall order perhaps but i know its there!!!! its like a word on the tip of your tongue!! i know if i present the ahha moment to dh he wont be able to argue its merits and get right on it! thank you all again for sharing your gifts ❤️ ps id like to say that i left the clutter so you all could see how the space functions but its actually becaise this winter has gotten the best of me

You want a pretty darn expensive project. Are you prepared for that expense? And the disruption? When you could just add a man door to the garage?

Good morning ☀️ there is already a door from garage but it leads into a very tight laundry room and than you have to walk through the dining area and into to the hallway to get to powder room. i felt like the expense wouldnt be overly much because its more reframing etc but ill admit im not good with imagining the dollars and more in how the house would function. if i had a good plsn i could adjust

You still don't have an accurate drawing, every foot and inch of everything as it exists.

There is NO "just do this!" . It is plumbing moves, electrical moves. It's a lot of things. You're planning a remodel up the road? It should be considered now. You have a second floor? Could laundry go up? What you have appears not to be working so well, and pool towels can be accomplished in a compact stack on the the first floor.

The kitchen is quite obviously lacking storage.....

"I felt like it wouldn't be overly much"

What's that number? : )

Thank you!!! i try to be realistic. my dh would do alot of the work and we source materials second hand etc. $10G’s and under would be the hope. 😬 This is the kitchen. that other room is the laundry. i always have far off dreams of reconfiguring the kitchen but dont have the heart to take out a good kitchen that works if not optimally. trying my hand at drawing. it may take a bit of time