Get a front load W/D and install a countertop over them for folding. Then put a bench with some hooks on that wall near the door.

HI Cayla,

I'd build a laundry chute if this is on a ground floor.

I like my dryer door to be able to open more than 90 degrees, is that an issue for you? What is on the other side of the wall to the right of the dryer? Where will it vent to?

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Combine a bench and fold down table, so the tabletop looks like the back of the bench when down. Couldn't find any exampes.

If you put the machines along the right side wall, you can have cabinets above the entire length of the laundry room. It lets you open the doors all the way. Alongside, you could have a base cabinet with a bit of countertop, maybe even a utility sink. Or, room to store an ironing board or folding clothes dryer. If you slide them more to one end, you can have space at the other end for baskets, and for a small bench. Or, depending on how you will use the closets on the left, you can have a bench there, too.

Nice, Annette! I think I might do a straight run, with or without the utility sink, to eliminate the corner cabinet which, in that kind of space, will become the spot water bottles go to die. In our last house, we saved the cut-out for the drop-in sink, attached some kind of cleat, and could place it over the sink when we needed the full countertop.

Your pictures do show how much nicer of a space it is with the machines along the long wall. The long countertop will certainly be useful for more than folding laundry. And more overhead storage.

I did a straight run option also. For me personally I need the utility sink. I use it for washing my little dogs and for repotting plants. When I had chickens it was my egg washing station.

If you took Annette's straight-line idea, move the machines to the left a skosh, you could have an L-shaped bench. By the door, hooks above. The bench alongside the machine can have the hanging bar above, and the bench is a perfect height for the laundry basket to put the folded clothes in. You'd lose the utility sink, but you don't feel the need for one, so not a loss to you. (Annette and I feel otherwise lol)

You could also move the bench and hooks to the other side. Reverse the swing of the door. This gives you a spot for light switches. In the other side you only have about 3 feet of wall space to put hooks, as well as have the light switch. Then you may end up with coats covering the switch, or have one less hook to not interfere with the switch.

Put drawers under the bench for shoes, extra storage above.

Or open under the bench with a boot tray. (We tend to kick our shoes off; if I have something in my hands I'm too lazy to set it down, open the drawer, put my shoes in, kick the drawer closed...we actually have a boot bench with a lift-up top. I have no idea what's inside it now, there's always stuff on top of it.)