utility room layout

[Carol2000]

Hi all,

We are doing home renovations and considering making the back hall and bath into a larger utility/toilet room downstairs. We will change the windows of the family room into double French doors to the back garden.
For now, there is a toilet, vanity and a washing machine in the downstairs bath, and I would like to keep the toilet and stacking washing machine and tumble dryer in that area.
Would this be a good choice, or should we just keep the stud wall to make it separate?

It’s casually called a lootility, and it divides opinion! We did it and love it.

Im not a fan, I had this in a previous house and it was always a bit of a nightmare to make sure it was tidy when people came round.

Now we have separate and it’s night and day better.

@Carol2000 I’d keep the downstairs loo and utility separate. I have a stacked washing machine with dryer above but they are in a purpose built housing, not a stacking kit. In the utility there’s also a large sink and drainer for hand washing as well as storage cupboards for cleaning kit and ironing board. My downstairs loo has a very different personality. It’s decorated differently and isn’t really a working room. I’d recommend keeping them separate and have a bit of decorating fun in the cloakroom.

A friend had a combined utility… well a lootility plus shower - lovely and warm in winter with the dryer.

Could a curtain down the middle be a way to hide the laundry side if you’ve got guests?

We've done a lootility several times (and also the more conventional separate loo and utility) and it's worked fine....

Except the one time the lootility had an external door to the garden as well the internal one from the hall. We'd had no issues till we sold the house and the removers were on site. I went out through the French doors in a different part of the house to check how things were going in the back garden (we had loads of outdoor furniture/large pots to move with us) and came back inside via the lootility door...

Only to find one of the removal guys having a poo 😳 Unfortunately for us both it was the first of four long days they were with us and I'm not sure who was the most embarrassed but suffice to say we spent much of the time avoiding eye contact 😆