Utility room layout help

[LovelyMMOG]

How would you lay out a utility room in this small space? I’d like to include the following if possible-

washing machine
dryer
small sink
fridge and freezer (could be a tall unit containing both or separate under counter fridge and freezer)

Annoyingly the door (to the boiler) on the left is only 50cm from the back wall so not deep enough to put standard units along that back wall- may have to just be a row of units along the right hand side.

Any ideas would be v welcome!

Can't contribute other than to say my starting point would be to make sure the washing machine and dryer are next to each other, with the doors opening opposite ways, so you can easily load from one to the other without a door getting in the way!

Yes! Last weekend I had a eureka moment when I realised that the door on my dryer could be swapped over to open the opposite way. Four years of reaching over it to load the dryer, fixed in half an hour!

Or they can be stacked on top of each other.

Can you add your boiler to the picture OP? Can't tell which wall is the back wall.

Oh and do you already have plumbing in the room?

That said, I do like stacked one on top of the other for washers and dryers too. We had that in a previous property and I’d probably choose that for a utility over side-by side under counter. Ours are under because our utility area is tucked away but not a separate room and a tower would have affected the sight lines to a window. It’s easy to buy a stacking support thing.

open shelving on the back wall would work OP. And make sure you include plenty of wall hooks for hanging damp towels and things that can’t go in the dryer. I would also have a ceiling pulley.

Oh thank you everyone. Hadn’t thought of stacking the washer and dryer, that makes it a lot easier! What do you think of this (a run on right hand side of room). Could then have a pulley by the window and some hooks etc on the left hand side).

Yes, makes sense to have the FF nearest the entry door as then you can pop in from the kitchen to get food without having to go through the laundry area of the utility. Looks good.

wat are you going to put on the wall between entry door and boiler?

Will you do your ironing in there too? you could have a wall mounted ironing board holder. Keeping mops and buckets in there? What about a wall mounted vacuum?
make sure you have thought about where to store laundry baskets, or get foldable ones.

Wall clips for an ironing board is a good idea, I need that!

I have an almost identical layout but moved the sink to one end of the worktop instead of the middle, then you get a bigger area to sort washing on or clean shoes etc.

We have a vertical radiator with a fold-down airer mounted on the wall just above, so you can hang delicate items that can't be tumbled but not take up floor space with an airer. I also had a 15cm gap between the base cupboards and the stacked washer/dryer. It's a perfect space for a pull out towel rail (hand towel) and a collapsible laundry basket to be stored on its side.

Looks good. You could have a broom cupboard in the top left corner

I would put shallow shelves or hooks on the wall on the left where you come in

An electric heater or towel rail is a godsend as you can put it briefly on to get wet stuff dry

If you did want cupboards along the window wall, remember you can use wall cabinets as base units if you want. Some places do different depths of wall cabinet (eg DIY kitchens does 45cm deep ones, intended as boiler cabinets I think)

Definitely stack your washer and dryer. How close is the room to the kitchen? Could you get away with a big fridge in the kitchen and an undercounter freezer in the utility?

What will you use the sink for? We had a sink put in ours 12 years ago, and have used it probably less than 5 times! (I wash my muddy trail shoes at the outside tap - no other mud to deal with here).

Also work out where you're going to store ironing board/vacuum/cleaning stuff etc. And all the other general paraphernalia that it's good to get out of the kitchen - light bulbs, a few tools (to save going to the garage every time you need a screwdriver), spare water filters, bulk packs of kitchen roll (mentally going through the cupboard in my utility!)
We also store electrical stuff in there - the blender/liquidiser, slow cooker, nutribullet and so on. All get used a lot, but I don't want them on the worktop in the kitchen.

The suggestion of narrow cupboards behind the door, under the window, is a very good one. I keep tupperware, baking trays etc and all that kind of stuff in a cupboard in the utility. My final cupboard there is for bulky food that is 'spare' - boxes of cereal not yet opened (we only like bran flakes from Lidl, so always stock up on those!), multi packs of drinks etc...

I don't have loads of storage in the kitchen, so some stuff naturally has to go in the utility, but having space for it all out there is very handy.

I second the idea if either using thinner units for the wall with the window or getting a kitchen fitter to cut some less deep ones. Also might be worth moving the door over so you get the extra ten cm. It isn't as big a job as you think.