I think it will work. Laundry in enclosed cupboards under the stairs and the linen cupboard on opposite wall. Keep the fireplace and the chandelier as is. Will be a good use of unused space. The cost will be your plumbing installation and cabinetry. Is there plumbing on the other side of the stairs?

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Thanks, great pics! There is no plumbing but the house is on stumps so should be ok to install, hopefully.

Can you share the floor plan. The one thing I miss with my new laundry cupboard is no space to set up clothes horse. I had one dropping from ceiling. Now it is always in sight somewhere

Yes, I’ve accepted that a clothes horse will have to be up, we have a spare room so it will have to go in there, I imagine it’s going to be really annoying but I don’t have many other options unless we extend.

I may be missing some info, but, why can’t you have the clothes horse/air dryer racks, outside under a patio during the day, or in a garage or under the carport? Just bring it in at night time. And it is a home that is lived in, so it doesn’t matter if there are clothes drying in a corner. Everyone, I think, does it. You just see staged photos with no clothes in the laundry…..maybe one shirt, that looks like it has already been ironed. 🙂

Just found this photo. With the height of your void under the stairs I think this would work. Sink and drying area.

I love these!!! Thanks, I think that would work well. The clothes horse is generally up and in the house all winter otherwise the clothes will never dry however can go outside in the warmer months.

Gaining a bedroom is worth a European laundry and a clothes horse. I live mom the coast in Vic and any washing outside is damp again by 4pm due to the sea mist. I recently bought a condenser dryer that does everything (including Linen fabric) apart from wool. My clothes horses have gone from 1 to 3. Worth looking at if you’re getting new appliances.

I don’t regret turning my laundry room into my study, there are always compromises and the clothes horse is mine.

Great idea to use this space for laundry and storge but it still seems there would be a lot of unused space as it appears to be a travels space ? A floor plan (even a rough sketch would be helpful to see the rooms around this space and if the space can be used better.

This is the original house plan however we have made some changes since then. We moved the kitchen back into the dining and moved the entry of the bathroom to the sitting room (next to the fireplace) and closed off the entry to the bathroom in the family.

Floor plan

So we want to change the existing laundry to a study/spare room. The study upstairs is a wardrobe.

Got it, makes sense now. In my design practice, we focus on making a good flow through the house and making sure that each room and space has a purpose.

I feel that the kitchen doors are creating a problem with the flow as they block they easy access to your main living area. My suggestion is to remove the kitchen doors and fix up the existing opening, maybe even add a little bit of fretwork. Then build a European Laundry / Linen storage cabinet on the wall from the kitchen to the bathroom door.

I would then put a small armchair in front of the fireplace a bit to the left so you're not blocking the stairs and put a desk (not built-in) and nice chair under the stairs. Now you have a cute study/office area with a hidden laundry that is connected to your main living space.

I'll attached pics below of a Euro Laundry we did in a bathroom.

Your plans sound great. I’d remove the fireplace to maximise storage and open a door connecting the entrance hall through to back room and remove the kitchen doors, change to a sliding door if needed

Great ideas thanks so much, yes the kitchen doors definitely have to go to make room for the cabinetry. We are completely lacking in storage which is why I wanted the two sides of the room to be cabinetry, one side laundry, the other linen cupboard etc. Do you think they will be too much cabinetry? The current laundry I wanted to have a fold out bed and small office as my husband will be working from home as of next year.

Empty wall

Different angle

You can never have too much storage in an older home. I like narrower shelves, about 400-450mm with push to open doors the same colour as the wall. You can get a lot in and still have it unobtrusive.

Given the width, although can you confirm width between stair and bathroom, I have put a cupboard alongside stair. This leaves the space under stairs for popping long objects including clothes horse.

You could also put sliding doors in to close off the new utility space

If sliding doors won’t fit there are some great bi-fold barn door options available.