Ours is in our mudroom off the garage which is off the living room. I actually love it. I’m downstairs all night with dinner and kids and I can throw in a load and then fold it at night watching TV. If it were upstairs I’d forget about it. It’s also incredible on snowy or rainy days when kids come in and can just toss wet stuff right into the washer.

And yes, I’ve had two friends whose upstairs off the bedroom washers leaked and they had to move out for a full house renovation.

ours was off the living room on the way to the garage. it was fine.

Could you add a laundry chute from the top floor to the new laundry room? That could help half of the laundry hauling from the bedroom floor.

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. This would be part of a mud room/laundry room with door to screened porch and door (that can be closed) to living room (or dining room, but that seems even stranger).

I appreciate the leaking issues - as a new addition we would make sure to put in a floor drain. We also want a dog shower, fyi.

I also appreciate the humidity issues. Hadn’t thought about that one.

I'm the PP who used to have laundry in the mudroom, which adjoined the garage. We also had a dog and fed the dog in there. I did not like having the clean laundry and ironing in a mudroom space with the typical dirt and hair that space gets (yes we cleaned) or the fact the dryer top became a flat surface for dog gear or whatever items came in from the garage.

If you can, try to separate them within the mudroom so that your laundry isn't an all purpose landing area.

Laundry rooms should be off the kitchen or mud room. It would be very weird to have it off a living room.

I would go ahead with it off the living room. Modern washer/dryers are much quieter than before, and you can put in a solid wood door with sound dampening gaskets to block the sound. Our laundry room is in the mudroom, which is not too far from the living room, and I love having it there to catch all the dirty stuff before it even leaves the mudroom. I have teen boys, and they shuck their sweaty sports clothes into the hamper before they go upstairs to shower - this keeps their rooms from getting as stinky.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. This would be part of a mud room/laundry room with door to screened porch and door (that can be closed) to living room (or dining room, but that seems even stranger).

That sounds like a very attractive setup. We have something similar in our 1960s colonial and it works really well. Previous owner added it; it was not original. The ground floor mudroom/laundry setup helped persuade us to buy the house.

Thank you PP.

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. This would be part of a mud room/laundry room with door to screened porch and door (that can be closed) to living room (or dining room, but that seems even stranger).

That sounds like a very attractive setup. We have something similar in our 1960s colonial and it works really well. Previous owner added it; it was not original. The ground floor mudroom/laundry setup helped persuade us to buy the house.

OP, I love a mud room so I think your idea sounds great. As long as you have the main floor room- do it.

PS don't listen to the goofballs about 2nd and 3rd floor laundry rooms. Correct plumbing and balanced machines are a standard today, not an exception.

I'm convinced multi-level sfh home builders before the early aughts actually hated families. In our c. 1981/82 2 floors plus basement house the laundry room is in the basement. HATE it!

In parent's house laundry room was in the basement. They moved it to the first floor. Now that they are old they are considering moving it to the 2nd floor where the bedrooms are because they have the space and hauling laundry up and down stairs is tedious. I am jealous because we don't have the option or space to do it.

Ideally could you add on a small mudroom w/ laundry? That works on the ground floor or otherwise on the same level as the bedrooms. Do you even have a linen closet or part of the master closet or master bathroom where you could put a stacked unit upstairs? Off the living room seems impractical and strange and I would think would be frowned upon for resale.

A combo laundry room/ mudroom would be great on the first floor

Ours is off the family room on ground floor. Has an ordinary interior door. Works fine.

Glad we do not have a 2F laundry room. YMMV.

Ours is on the main floor behind our garage, accessible through the kitchen and I absolutely hate it. I hate having to haul laundry through the kitchen to the laundry room and there's no space. Even though I hated going up and down to the basement in our old house, I miss having a lot of space. If I had the money, I would move it to the top floor near the bedrooms.