Rather than a whole room for laundry, we've got a nook in the main hallway. When we moved in, it had bi-fold doors, but it didn't take long for us to rip those suckers out. I really hate bi-fold doors (we've only got one set left in the house, our master bedroom closet doors), but they were especially useless in the laundry nook: our pretty new washer and dryer were too deep for the doors to close!