My wife would like to have the door to the utility room. I already said that we should better leave it out for the sake of space – she is not very convinced yet. We'll think it over again.
Then she should participate in such discussions and not just be persuaded by the husband.
Sorry, it means "storage room" in the floor plan.
That is outside. Basement replacement would be inside. That does not exist here. Technology takes up quite some space. Laundry too.
I'll put it this way: with this door in a 7-something sqm technical room, where laundry will also be done, there is no point in further discussion here. That is insufficient overall. Without a door it will be an upgrade to insufficient, one square meter more in the technical room will make it sufficient.
You make it easy for yourselves: you call that a second hallway, and everything will be fine (monkey covering its eyes).