The plan is that you can arrive from the garage directly, for example, with groceries in the large utility room. There you can then put various items directly into the small shelves located there. ...
Due to the space saved, we also wanted to use the utility room as a small pantry so that we don't have to store all the stuff like water crates or similar directly in the kitchen, but also don't have to walk through the garage every time to the "larger" storage room located there to get water.
The room where the heating (in whatever form) is located is the worst possible room in the house to store food supplies.
After the third warm beer or water at the latest, you will wish you had set up a separate pantry (which is usually built completely without heating). Or you'll come up with the brilliant idea of filling the heating room with refrigerators, which of course is an energy disaster.
Such a utility room is supposed to handle as many functions in the house as possible at once. Laundry room, heating, electricity, water connection, pantry, second entrance, storage room for tools, and on top of that, vacuum cleaners, buckets, brooms, trash cans, etc. pile up there.
Then your sweater will smell like trash in the future, your food will either sprout legs or mold, your wife will curse because she can't find the cleaning cloths among your tools, and every time you enter there, you scatter the dirt from your shoes on the floor. The room will have the highest frequency in the house and thus the dirt from there will be distributed everywhere. To crown it all, your water supplier will come to read the water meter, which is now surrounded by dirty laundry.
Of course, this is exaggerated. But I am very glad that we have a separate room for the laundry, a pantry, a technical room (without an outside door), and a spacious entrance area with many wardrobe cabinets (alone 7 shoe racks :eek. The rooms are not large–just adequate, but each built for its intended purpose.