and you can get dry from the car into the house.
The topic of the utility room door in a too small utility room and hallway planning with front door, but the "I would like to enter through the utility room because then I stay dry" issue seems to come up here every week.
Think about,
- how often it rains when you want to leave the house or come home.
- why you plan a large hallway with a nice front door, only to then go through a technical room yourself
- what the technical room, which is also supposed to be a utility room here, must and should be used for, e.g., laundry washing and how the usability of drying/storing laundry fits into the process of the "second alternative hallway."
I actually also have a door (patio door) in the utility room. It is now blocked by vacuum cleaners, mop buckets, and a box of waste paper, since storage space is also available elsewhere, but the "interim storage" of the yellow bag, waste glass, and cardboard doesn’t fit into the daily rhythm in such a way that you go outside or upstairs every time for it.
In your case, besides laundry washing, the (small) laundry must also be dried – that doesn’t make it fun to contaminate the floor with dirty shoes.
I don’t want to have to walk through the living room first to get to the other rooms.
I can understand that. My example only served to reflect and zone private and open areas – I explicitly wrote about modifying, which amounts to more precise planning. For example, you could then plan the kitchen again in the west.
In your place, I would consider not having to bypass the guest area the way it is planned here. A utility room that is closer to the kitchen is more practical in everyday life and supports the idea of zoning.
Should a fixed staircase lead upstairs for you? I would plan it at least 70, better 80 cm wide so that a standard box can be safely transported there. So in a design, plan 80 cm if you include handrails and plaster.