Laundry and the pool-side lobby

11b

Downstairs, the laundry and the small lobby beside it are the guests' way out to the courtyard, garden and pool. The aim: hide the laundry completely and make the lobby feel open and finished.

The first seven pictures are AI-enhanced images, not photographs. They start from a 3D model checked against WD 09. The last picture is the model.

What is what: the laundry is a simple rectangle opening off the bedroom hallway. Joinery: two oak bi-fold sets (as drawn) to ~2140, fixed oak cupboards above, the kitchen's 50 mm border and grooves, black pulls on the folds; both sets fold to the ends. Inside: one Taj Mahal-look stone bench the full width; trough and washer where drawn; a heat-pump dryer under the bench; three drawers; white overheads with an LED strip; crazy-pave splashback. Lobby: Ashton Light stone on the long wall with a pair of Buster+Punch Exhaust lights; two Koala Living Trento plinths (brown ash); a loose door mat (ours); the glass door opens outwards with a fixed glass sidelight; the door wall is plain painted. Floor: the same floorboards as the hall.

Floorboards in this room (John, 8 Oct 2026). The pictures show the laminate we shortlisted, Solomons Elements Hydro in Cedar Mist DR6616, 1515 × 237 mm. Harriett has suggested the tendered engineered timber instead; that is not yet decided. Whichever is chosen, the boards here must be long (about 1.5 m or longer), in a similar colour, and must look like floorboards: a fine bevelled groove between planks. The question is asked once, under Flooring in 00a.

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Laundry layout (behind the two bi-fold sets as drawn, in the kitchen's oak with its framing): one stone bench the full 2.86 m; trough and washer where drawn (no plumbing change); a heat-pump dryer under the bench beside the washer (no external vent; pictured: Fisher & Paykel Series 7 in graphite, 10 kg washer WH1060DG5 and 10 kg heat pump dryer DH1060DG5, 850 high, to fit under the bench); ~1 m of drawers at the far end; full-width overhead cupboards, lit underneath; no open shelves and no separate linen cupboard (linen goes in the overheads). Bi-fold pulls on the fold of each pair.
Glass door and sidelight: WD 09 shows only the 870 glass door, off-centre (about 390 from the laundry side, 160 from the WC wall). We'd like a fixed glass sidelight (~350 wide) beside it on the laundry side, same 2400 head, black frames, to fill that wall with glass and light. Can the external wall take it (bracing, lintel), and what does it add? Agreed: VO5, all three dwellings (4 Nov 2026).
Bi-fold doors folding to both ends so the whole bench opens for folding washing. Folded, the west set would stand in an inward-opening glass door's swing, so we'd like the glass door to open OUTWARDS onto the courtyard: outward-opening seals and threshold (still step-free), hinges, and a door stop outside so wind can't slam it. OK?
Stone feature wall: Ashton Light (as in the entry) along the full width of the lobby's solid wall (the WC room's wall; its door is off the corridor), ~2.9 m, with a pair of Buster+Punch Exhaust downlights 250 off it, the same as the entry.
Floor: laminate carrying through from the hall (our lean) with no change of floor here. Decided: the same floor as the hall; the product itself is still open: the laundry and lobby have the same laminate as the hall (John, 8 Oct). The travertine alternative and the recessed mat well asked for here earlier are both withdrawn; the door mat is a loose one we supply. Please confirm the floor is suitable beside an outside door, where wet feet come in from the pool.
The bedroom corridor (WD 09, 1.17 m wide, ~8.6 m long): flush doors with no architraves and matte black levers, as through the house; four downlights down the middle; blocking in the party wall for two large artworks. Is a flush, architrave-free door detail within the allowance?
Tall cupboard at the east end of the laundry (John, 4 Oct), behind the same bi-folds: the east ~600 becomes a full-height cupboard to the bi-fold head, lined in the joinery oak, for the guests' cleaning gear: a stick vacuum on a wall dock fixed to the side panel near the front (power point beside it), broom and mop clips on the other side panel, shallow shelves at the back, the ironing board on the inside of its door. The bench and overheads shorten to about 2.26 m, with a 400 drawer stack. Please price.
Laundry lighting on the doors: the LED strips under the overhead cupboards (and inside the tall cupboard) to switch on automatically when the bi-folds are opened and off when closed: concealed door/reed switches on each bi-fold set, so guests never hunt for a switch. Please allow the switches and a driver at rough-in.
Outdoor shower just outside the glass door, for rinsing off after the pool: cold (or warm) feed and drainage.

AI-enhanced · 1 of 7From the bedroom hallway: the oak wall hiding the laundry, the Ashton Light stone opposite, the glass door and sidelight to the courtyard

AI-enhanced · 2 of 7Across the lobby to the glass door (opens outwards); two Trento plinths against the stone, a loose door mat

AI-enhanced · 3 of 7From beside the glass door, back to the hallway

AI-enhanced · 4 of 7The joinery closed: two bi-fold sets, oak cupboards above, the kitchen's border and grooves; pulls on the folds

AI-enhanced · 5 of 7The trough end open (folds against the glass-door end): a matte black undermount sink and black gooseneck mixer; the Fisher & Paykel Series 7 graphite dryer, the washer beside it

AI-enhanced · 6 of 7The drawer end open (folds against the end wall): drawers under the bench, the graphite washer, overhead cupboards

AI-enhanced · 7 of 7Both sets open: the tall oak-lined cupboard at the left end (a Dyson stick vacuum on its wall dock, broom and mop, shelves; the ironing board on hooks), three drawers, the washer and heat pump dryer (Fisher & Paykel Series 7, graphite) under the stone bench (now about 2.26 m), the trough

AI-enhanced · the corridorThe bedroom corridor, from the lobby to Bed 3's door at the far end: flush white doors to the washroom, bathroom and Bed 2 on the left with black levers and no architraves; coastal artworks in oak frames on the party wall; downlights down the middle. (The AI added a third artwork; the design has two)

3D model · to scaleThe hallway view straight from the 3D model. Trust this one for proportions