Those racks were custom made for those baskets. The basket size would determine the width of the unit.

How would you use these baskets? My laundry baskets remain empty and nested in each other, except for laundry day. It seems like a waste of space.

I use 3+ laundry baskets at once, because I sort right when I take the clothes off (rather than on laundry day). That said, I keep the baskets/hampers in my room, not the laundry room. And I wouldn't want to eat up any more space in a kitchen for laundry than I absolutely had to.

My mom had a big hamper in the laundry room that we were all required to empty our individual hampers into. If we wanted our clothes cleaned, we took them in there ourselves to wait for whoever was doing laundry to scoop up whatever was in the big hamper. (if we were in a hurry for those clothes, -we- would scoop of the clothes, and also send out a call for more laundry to make a full load, and everyone would bring them from our many bedrooms.

She'd have been able to use something like this positioned next to the washing machine. She might have liked making us sort our clothes into those baskets so she didn't have to!

In my home, this wouldn't really work for me in the laundry area--it would work in our bedroom, because we're the only people who produce the laundry, really (and when our son is home, he throws his laundry in our hamper). And clothes wait in that one hamper until it's time to do them all. I don't want to carry them to the laundry machine every single day--I only want to carry the clothes there in a big batch when it's time to do a load.

I think it just depends how your family is organized. I can see a multi-bedroom family saying, "Every day while I'm in the kitchen, I'll look to see if a basket is full, and then I'll do that load. If you want your clothes washed by someone else, put them in there."

Also--Ana White created a "laundry basket dresser," and she uses it this way:
"It's so easy to pull laundry out and put it directly into baskets. I then can take each basket to it's respective room and fold and put laundry away. "

but yes--that cabinet is sized to hold exactly those baskets. So if you want to do this, you should first find the baskets you want to use.

Don't get anything flimsy, and also get some spares, because the cabinet will be messed up if they break.

One nice thing about this particular design, with the drop-in hole, is that often laundry baskets are a somewhat similar size, and if the basket breaks and can't be replaced exactly, it's not that much work to cut a new frame for it and attach it to the drawer slides.

Some of the designs for those pull-out baskets have the baskets sliding end in; this one has them going long-side in, or horizontally, which makes for a shallower cabinet.

Ana White has a basic plan for a "laundry basket dresser," and also will show you several other versions that her readers have made. That might give you a bit of a framework for thinking about this.

http://www.ana-white.com/2010/11/laundry-basket-dresser

Given the size of a kitchen cabinet, those baskets cannot be very big.

This is small in scale and might be suitable for a couple, but for a family it is probably inadequate

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You have a 48" wide space in which to put something? That space is empty at the moment?

Or, is there already a cabinet there?

If you have a space that large, one thing that you can think about is to get a rolling fixture of some sort that has a countertop on it and open shelves underneath it where you could put laundry baskets. You could buy some baskets that are not unpleasant to see. You might look at Ikea, depending on what your taste is.

You want these baskets to sort clean laundry or to keep dirty laundry?

If you are going to sort your clean laundry, why have the baskets?

Maybe you could clarify just what is the objective.

If you opt for a system like the one in the picture you will be locking yourself in to a fixed and inflexible situation. Also, I imagine it would have quite a price on it.

It might look enticing, but is is really a solution to anything and is it really practical? I suspect that the idea of it is the best part of it. I don't see a lot of real usefulness here.