We have a very small villa, and the laundry is in the bathroom. We have considered moving it but to where? there is no room for it anywhere. We intend building another garage alongside part of the house in the future and will consider moving it out there later but at the moment it stays in the bathroom. When we renovate the bathroom we intend changing the bathroom door to a sliding one, removing the hot water tank and putting in gas (to give us more room) and putting the laundry behind bi-folding doors so that it can be shut away when not in use. If you don't have a separate laundry then the bathroom is the next practical place, plumbing is there already( which is a big cost) and you keep your dirty clothes etc in one place. Sometimes you can even add a door to the outside so that you can easily get your laundry out and if coming in from the garden you can just hop in the shower or use the loo without walking through the house, etc.

My logic is, wherever you hang your clothes to dry, the laundry shouldn't be too far away. My clothes line is right outside my laundry door, in my carport. We manly put the line there because we believed bees were dropping their pollen on the clothes out in the open??Also if it rains it isn't a bother. We removed out dryer from the wall so we could put in a laundry shute, safe lugging it downstairs. (I have the drier on wheels now and have it stored out of the way and bring it out when I need to use it, (which is very seldom) I think, wherever you have your laundry, it just has to function with how you do things. Another thought is, if you have your laundry in with another designated room, if you really do need to get the laundry sorted but someone is in the shower/bathroom/toilet it could become frustrating. Also the noise coming from a laundry/bathroom area maybe too close to bedrooms and be a nuisance that way.

We have successfully combined laundry and bathroom - size constraints meant we couldn't include a laundry tub but there are thin ones on the market that would only add 50cm or so at most. I chose a touch type latch so the door was a bit disguised

I would move the wc door to the hall wall to encompase the storage cupboard, delete the wall between the wc and laundry and move the laundry toward the wc (approx 900mm) to make the study larger . Make the laundry space 800mm deep behind cabinetry forming part of a slightly larger wc. As it stands, there is wasted space in the laundry to allow for circulation, when there is adequte circulation space in your wc. An exterior door can also be included here. Overall, you should end up with at least 600mm wider study and less 'wasted' space. Hope that makes sense

Agree with previous two comments. Your floor plan suggests you already have an en suite and another full bathroom. Are you sure you need another bathroom? I would prefer a bigger laundry/utility room, but that's just me.

I agree with previous comments. I think the laundry is about 3m long. Use minimal width and put behind 3 sliding doors, minimal tub and if possible put clothes drier in garage and add a tub/bench in the garden for any messy/gardening work. Add the saved space to another room. If sticking with original plan then have laundry door onto hall rather than toilet. Definitely add door to outside as makes things so much easier.....but only if going to side or back or house. Don't want laundry/toilet opening onto front lawn! lol