What would you do with this room/space?

PS the doors can be made from MDF and the panelling added with quadrant, cheap as chips.
Straight modern handles, big wooden knobs or pretty flowery ones. Whatever suits your taste.

It's not a good room for storage as others have noted. Small items can be stored in cupboards about two feet high. Ironing board and hoovers can be hidden in one of those trellis things they make for hiding wheelie bins, keep it indoors, paint it white maybe.
The spare fridge and freezer are not too unsightly or tall, and can get a worktop over them,

PS replace hinged doors with sliding doors or curtains or simply do without doors where suitable.

PPS replace spare fridge and freezer with a fridge freezer to save floor space.

I do know, Doodledog but a couple of citrus would still be lovely!

Do you have a downstairs toilet and shower room? I converted our garage into a utility with storage cupboards. Washer and drier on one side, with wash basket and small freezer for dog food on top. Plaster wall and door leading into a small wet room shower, toilet and sink. Theresa new side door so I can bring muddy dogs straight in, saving the rest of the house till they’re showered and dry.
I hadn’t planned to future proof but realise I did. If I ever have to live downstairs -I can

I think that's a great (abd practical) idea. A shower room. The big windows are still awkward though 🤔

We looked into a shower room, but it would involve major building work because of the concrete floor and the fact that there is no drainage. I would have liked that, as it would mean if one of us couldn't use the stairs for any reason they could live downstairs, but the labour costs alone made it unfeasible.

I have wondered about getting cupboards under the windows, and a tall one where the shelves are now. I might look into that. The fridge and freezer are stacked (the freezer is a small one that I was given, and the fridge came out of the kitchen when it was redone and I got an integrated one). I could replace them with a fridge freezer, and if a kitchen company did the work I could have that integrated too.

I don't know how sliding doors would work, as the back wall is all but taken up with doors, so there's nowhere for them to slide to.

Thanks for all the ideas. I'll think them all over.

Over 40 yrs ago we had a man build a long row of low storage cupboards in our GC playroom. I made a picture, it would not attach.

Perhaps build to fit, below the sets of windows. I understand the windows are different heights, one side of cupboard to touch the corner of the wall, the other side of cupboards come to the first.

A completed L, with 2 heights. The windows below the kitchen, given enough space, might be best for windows touching the corner.

What about bricking up the bottom half of the back door and having a window up the top, then opening up a doorway where the cupboard is? That way you have gained a whole wall on the lefthand side and have a walkway from the kitchen door to the back door into the garden. Your hoover cupboard could go in the corner where the back door used to be, or the corner of the lefthand wall and the kitchen wall. Hope that makes sense!

That would mean reconfiguring the garden, Squiffy. It's a good idea, but I'm not really up for major building work - I just want to make the best use of the space. It's not large enough to get real benefit from something that is very expensive and disruptive, which moving things around would be.

I am getting a larder built in the kitchen, so when the carpenter's here I will ask him about options for fitting cupboards in the space - something along the lines you describe, Norah.

Thanks again for the input.

Tricky, isn’t it Doodledog?! Yes, my idea wouldn’t be cheap as it would involve installing an rsj as the back wall is a supporting wall. My previous house was like yours. We moved! 😆

I drew a picture, still could not attach.

Perhaps using the loo wall (right side), build out a small storage room, slanted towards the kitchen door, stopping short of course. With the end near the kitchen door squared off to hold the fridge freezer - open with a well measured side-side fit for fridge freezer.

IOW build a room in the room, for storage (pocket of bi-fold door) encasing a fridge freezer, shelving above, in the open end of said room (cased opening) nearest the door to the kitchen.

Poor drawing, however captures my thoughts.

I believe you may well like the space, walls painted pale yellow or white (keeps it bright), with built in white cupboards storage against walls.

We had wood tops built on the cupboards, painted white, easy to clean. Lovely storage, easy access, not very deep to the walls.

I'd imagine the more open you leave the room, whilst building in storage, the happier you will be when GC arrive - it could be lovely with low small furniture/art space/ colouring table/ train table. In fact the lower cupboard tops could be great for tiny car races, Thomas train, baby doll changes/feedings.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Make it one room. You'll get a big airy kitchen and living space.

Identical layout to ours, but ours was built as a utility room so only one window at each end. The large fridge/freezer and another upright freezer are in there, together with washing machine, tumble drier, vacuum cleaner. A tall cupboard for shoes and general 'stuff', plus other cupboards for cleaning materials, tools etc.
I like to have the laundry equipment out of the kitchen.
Ours needs a clear out.

Yours could, however, make a lovely garden room.

Re the doors opening onto that room- could you put one of those ‘sliding’ doors on (sorry there is a trendy name for them which escapes me atm)!

It must get a decent amount of sun in the afternoon, I’d put a table or strong shelf in front of the window, or big pots on the floor and grow things with perfumed flowers or scented leaves. Orange or lemon trees/bushes would be ideal. You could have a garden seat or a couple of chairs and enjoy the evening sun. Having a “conservatory” without a glass roof means that it won’t get too hot and in the winter it’s more like an unheated greenhouse, so perfect for plants that are not fully hardy. I appreciate that the back door limits the space, maybe it could open outwards.
Apart from that I’d simply use it as a utility room for fridge/freezer and washing machine, perhaps with a ceiling pulley dryer for damp days (with a dehumidifier or a radiator run off the central heating for damp days). We had a room like this in our old house (with machines inside cupboards) and enjoyed the sun and scents.

JaneJudge

If it’s enclosed I think I’d get a carpenter to build a storage bench on the opposite side to the loo, make a nice box cushion and get the walls panelled and painted and hang up some nice pictures. Look at mud rooms on Pinterest, waste a couple of days. Start looking at narrow. Boats. Forget what you went on there for. Several weeks have passed and you’ve grown a beard. Room, what room?

OMG - this is my life (including the beard). 😂😂😂

We’ve recently had a cupboard built into an alcove, floor to ceiling. I can’t believe what a difference it’s made in terms of practical storage. Looks so much neater and I can actually find things. Wish I’d done it years ago. There are some very clever storage solutions these days, including pull out cupboards that make things much more accessible and can be incorporated into the most awkward seeming spaces. Also, our tumble dryer and dishwasher are stacked one on top of the other in our utility room which really saves space. I’m a big fan of boxes for effective storage inside cupboards and on shelves too.

Yes a utility room/downstairs loo

PS if you have the cupboards custom made out of MDF, they can be painted the same colour as the walls, which also helps make the space seem need better integrated and instantly tidier somehow.

If you still need storage, how about putting an island in the middle of the room for storage and using the top as either a space for plants or as extra working room for potting, etc?