Add a chute???
Before you keep going on this wonderful craft room,,,can you add a laundry chute from upstairs so that you don't have to carry the dirty laundry all downstairs?? We added a hole in a bathroom cupboard in an upstairs bathroom going to the basement. We actually used to hand up extra food (bags of chips) when we needed them upstairs.
In this house we have a chute in the wall of one room going into the laundry room...I LOVE IT!!!