I think converting the laundry to an ensuite is an excellent idea that will make your home more comfortable and add to its value. I also agree with those above who suggest keeping the w/c separate and dispensing with the current back door to the verandah. If you don't already have french doors or sliders onto the verandah from the dining room, that should be an easy and pleasing addition.

My top recommendation is that you reassess all the doors on that hallway --its a lot cheaper than building on, and it must be possible to make more efficient use of that very wide (1550mm, if the laundry measurements are correct) hallway.

If you remove the verandah door, you can have a slight bigger ensuite and move the door to the new master bedroom. If you move the door to the master bedroom so that is in the space freed up by removing the verandah door, the new master will be more private and you won't have to allow for door swing which will make it live a little bigger.

Now that you don't have to sacrifice that notch in the bathroom and the w/c to accommodate access to Bed 3, you can take that space back, and either have those doors open on to the hallway proper, or keep them at right angles to each other but give up half the linen cupboard and move them forward. That would make the w/c a badly needed 450 mm deeper, and hopefully you could then fit in a little sink, perhaps inset in the wall between w/c and bath.

I would build a new, deep closet opening on to the hallway that takes the space behind the door in Bed 2, and put a stacked washer/dryer there. If you can make the adjacent linen closet deeper to match, that would be nice and would allow you to have both storage and a folding bench.

If there is no robe in Bed 2, you can build one in between the back wall of that new washer/dryer closet and the outer wall, along the wall between Bed 2 and the bath, or steal just enough room from Bed 1 for a robe between those two rooms.

I know codes in SA don't require it, but I strongly recommend that you arrange to vent your new dryer through the roof.

Let us know what you decide!

I think its a great idea if you don't have lots of kids and need a workhouse laundry anymore. I think changing up the use of rooms is a great idea to renovate a house.

Gives me the idea to convert an ensuite to a laundry lol!

Hi Ryan,

I've done quite a few renos for resale. One of your priorities is future resale - as it should be. I would talk with the agents in your area to see how hard it would be with an 'apartment-style European laundry' in a cupboard to sell to families with children. I came across one a year ago in a family area not far from you when I was checking things out. At open inspections all the comments were "Oh no". I checked and that house took 6 months to sell and three price reductions (it was a really good house and should have sold in a snap). Looks like an 'efficient' idea until you do your research. Hope it helps.

Separate wc's. strike me as outdated and unhygienic. I would have one in the family bathroom. The laundry adjacent hallway & bed 3 opened up would make a fab master bedroom overlooking the veranda. The space that is currently wc and inner hallway can be its ensuite shower room accessed via a sliding door, with a slim depth basin between the toilet and the shower. The width of 890 is fine, especially as it will be wider where the sliding door is. You can afford to pinch 850 from the 3350mm length, making your ensuite 2500 x 890mm The space that is currently the bathroom and the hall cupboard can be the family bathroom with a laundry cupboard, with a recessed basin in the 850mm that you pinched from the ensuite. Then you have 3350 x 1800. To the right of the door, you can have a generous laundry cupboard, with a bath on the same wall and a wc to the left of the bath. A hall cupboard at the entrance hall (where it should be) can be cut into Bed 2. Hope this helps. Space design is my passion!