If you've got a utility room and a boot room...

[Karcheer]

which is bigger? And what do you have in them?

we are doing some work on our house.
We have an existing utility with a door to the back garden.Which is off the kitchen.
We then have a larger room that used to be a kitchen, no external door.
I was originally thinking this should be a boot-room with dog shower, room for their crates, storage for coats boots etc.
But with all the rain we've been having lately im wondering if the larger room would be better as the utility? I'd still have to have the dog crates in the bigger room but could move washing machine/tumble dryer in there and have room to put clothes horses up if it rains (I wouldn't be able to do this in my current utility)...

Im really unsure how to split the "jobs" of these two rooms...

thank you.

Having had houses with a walk-in pantry (situated on external wall so it was properly cold) with floor to ceiling shelving, and now a house with a utility room and a boot room but no pantry, I'd definitely go for the latter combo. Especially if you have dogs.

Yes a pantry / walk in larder is great, but you can get away with a decent larder cupboard and plenty of fridge-freezer space, and storage elsewhere for bulky "dry" goods.

But living in the country with muddy dogs. wet coats, boots and sports kit etc, and no boot room? No thanks.

The layout looks as though the Boot Room is actually an office/study?

@Daisydoesnt exactly i've smelly spaniels and in the country.

@FAQs originally it was the kitchen. The previous people had a kitchen extension and knocked the wall down between the dining room and what was kitchen (they may have done this when it was a kitchen?) and used the L shaped room as a 2nd sitting room, but it's a really odd shape and very large so it needs separating and we will make more use of it as 2 rooms.

What else is on your ground floor? Do you have a downstairs toilet, study as well or is just the big you’ve shown?

Yes we’ve also got a study, downstairs loo and living room.

Ah that makes sense.

I think I have more stuff crap that belongs in boot room/utility room/pantry/laundry room than actually needs to be on show or used in a living room!

Def need an external door for a boot room, mud room, dog room. Will you shut the dogs in that room? so do you need the crates in there?

I also added an external door for our laundry room so I could hang washing outside without dragging it through the family room. One of our previous homes had its laundry in the back of the garage.

My current homes dilema is the downstairs loo is huge, so I want to put cupboards in there. The other utility-type room is small, but will have to most of the stuff in there as external door and I cant have laundry in the loo (yuk), but was thinking could store hoover, cleaning supplies, pet food in there.