Sounds like you have all the essentials. We don't have a basement and the laundry room is next to our bedroom. Very handy since I never run it at night to disturb our sleep. Just the two of us and it has washer, dryer, cabinets over them, and we put in some wire shelves to hold hangers and hanging to dry clothes, plus what I take out of the dryer and put on hangers. Also a table to hold miscellaneous stuff waiting to get washed, like my bras that go in a mesh bag. We did put a tall free standing type cabinet in there to hold things like rags, cleaners, etc. Cabinets over the washer/dryer hold things like paint cans, aerosol cans, etc. We don't have a garage and it would be too hot in the outside storage room to keep things like that. Anyway, the system seems to work ok for us.