We are moving to a new house which we want to make into the house we stay in for the long term, probably until our children move out. We only have one at the moment but will hopefully have one more DC.
At the moment the original galley kitchen opens out into a kitchen diner extension which we are incorporating into the original dining room to make a kitchen/diner/family room and the galley will be put to other uses. It already houses the boiler and washing machine.
In an ideal world I'd turn it into a downstairs toilet, laundry room and walk in pantry. Trouble is we only have room for 2 of these. I'd LOVE to a walk in pantry and it is the stuff of my dreams, but my head is telling me that a downstairs lav and a laundry room are the 2 most practical and 'necessary'. Downstairs loo as otherwise we'd only have one toilet in the whole house, and laundry room as otherwise the washing machine would be in the family room and the noise would likely drive me mad and I also like the idea of being able to hang washing and store piles of clean stuff somewhere out of sight.
Which two would you choose?