Large laundry room or smaller with a store room

[runtybunty]

More help needed please.

Our ground floor plans include a laundry/utility room that is roughly 5.7m by 2.4, widening to 3.5m

DH thinks we should make the room smaller and put a separate storage room at the back for suitcases, christmas decorations etc - from the plans this would be roughly 2.4 by 1.2m.

There is no room in the loft for storage due to the shape of the roof but there will be a garage and lots of built in storage around the house.

In the utility room I need to have an extra fridge and chest freezer, washing machine, tumble dryer, room for ironing board, laundry baskets, worktop for sorting laundry etc and fitted cupboards hiding the appliances.

Which would you prefer - bigger utility room or a smaller room with a store room?

Bigger utility room with large cupboards for your storage needs. Fiddley little rooms are harder to get stuff in and out of, more doors to deal with, less flexible how you lay the space out.

Harder to get 2x smaller rooms clean, too.

i agree with ragged. I would have one large utility with a large painted cupboard built in for storing boxes etc.

1 huge room with more cupboards - if you have two rooms that's two doorways, wall space. Floor to ceiling cupboards.

Definitely the big futility room, as long as you have storage elsewhere.

I have a bank of floor to ceiling storage made up of 9 wall cabinets, so they're only 30cm deep, ranged in a 3x3 formation and fitted flush to each other. You wouldn't believe how much goes in here, and because they're wall cabinets (from B&Q) stuff doesn't get lost at the back. No good for suitcases but cleaning stuff, vases, catfood, spare glasses, toolbox, candles, posh crockery...it all goes in. Worth thinking about if you have a wall spare which won't fit conventional base units.

I agree with the others about having one large room with extra storage and think fresh has it right with a bank of wall units for storage - great idea and you could have doors made from mdf which you can then paint in a nice colour.

Lucky you btw!