Put the laundry upstairs, preferably in/near your master bedroom and use the washer as a hamper/basketball hoop.
No more carting laundry up and down stairs == joy.
No more carting laundry up and down stairs == joy.
The plan is to line the outer walls with 1" foam board and to cover those seams with tuck tape, then build a 4" wall on the wall with the 2 single pane wooden transom style windows.