I would consider IRON ORE…..URBAN BRONZE leans brown…

I would replace the vanity cabinet with a simple bank of drawers with a drop in sink

and add a countertop across the top of the W/D and sink for a sleek finish

Cabinets and/or shelves above to maximize the verticle space. Closet rod and or drying rack. The floor is great! SW Oak Leaf Brown is a rich dark color I like the Urbane Bronze.

I'd paint the inside of your stand alone cabinet just to accent.

the laundry tends to be a catch all room, I would go with all dark so not to worry about stained door pulls, etc. The Stuff in the room will add the color and daily chaos.

All Depending on the other colors in your home..a dark olive would be beautiful..

Amazon sells these amazing washer dryer toppers all different wood finishes and styles.

@Lyn Nielson @Home Interiors with Ease would you paint the walls those colors, or the cabinets and keep the walls light?

I would paint the walls..cabinet, washing machine, dryer and the tall cabinet will all match in white.

@Home Interiors with Ease that makes it easier :D

I would paint the walls dark.

you already have the light WD and cabinet.

Ok thank you! I was worried about it because I had a hard time finding pictures with darker walls and light/white cabinets.

I would paint the base cabinet (or replace with Ikea) the same colour as the Ikea wall cabinets.

I suggest you buy cabinets all the same height

Bring in some wood tone in the room with a laminate countertop (at the same height as washer/dryer of adjust accordingly)

I also suggest a warm white for the walls (test to find a white that coordinates with other whites in the room)

The IKEA design I have above provides about 36" from the top of the machine to the bottom of cabinet. I don't think I could use standard height wall cabinets and still have room for a drying rod?

I suppose I should also mention that I absolutely hated my above-the-machine cabinets at my last house. They were impossible to access and too narrow to store anything bulky in, so my goal here is to have cabinets I can actually use, with the added benefit of getting rid of my drying rack, which I abhor. Hopefully with a deeper cabinet I'll have easier access (even though they are higher). Since I have the Hemnes unit I probably won't store things in there that I need often.

Also the floor leans into the brown/grays - I think urbane bronze is pretty dead-on for the darkest part of the floor, and library pewter is a close match for the other color.

I like the look of counters over machines but the built-in aspect of it I don't really love. I feel like I would put a counter on my machines and the next day they would both require service.

It appears from the pictures you posted of the floor all the colors seem to lean toward the neutral side. If that's the case, then you can go with any colors that you want, provide you don't go "crazy".

What about the walls and cabinets in the same mid range color family with walls a shade or two lighter, creating a subtle contrast but not enough to break up the room (room will feel larger as well). I noticed your use of black, so be sure to add some fun black lighting.

You say you didn't like the cabinets in your previous laundry room because they were too high and not deep enough. The Ikea cabinets are 12 3/4" deep which is a good size and having them all at the same height would make them more accessible and visually more interesting. Have you considered a wall drying rack? this one is available from Ballard Designs.

Thanks everyone, these are all great ideas!

@lisedv I did think about a rack like you show but I feel like they don't hang enough and would still be in the way. I will probably still do something like that for unmentionables, but my current drying rack doesn't have enough room on it so I figured a clothing rod would solve that problem with more room than I'd need. (I really don't buy a lot of hang dry clothing, but instead I tend to hoard a few weeks worth of delicates and do them all at once so it's not such a small load. We also live in the north so there's a lot of sweaters & stuff that really shouldn't be in the dryer).

I also wanted to get a built-in ironing board installed on the wall opposite the machines, but who am I kidding I never iron. I might still do it though, just so I have it when I DO need it (mainly for curtains :D). Plus I think they're so fancy.

The IKEA cabinets I plan to use over the machines are 24" deep. I had standard depth wall cabinets at my last house and that's just what didn't' cut it. It's hard to reach over machines to get anything out of them. My ribs still hurt thinking about all the times I tried. Plus I couldn't reach past the 2nd level without a step ladder, which was annoying. Since I have the hemnes cabinet there's not much I'll need to store in there but the size will be nice (maybe sleeping bags? Extra towels?).

Anyway, I'm the only one in my house who uses this room, so really this is all for me (and if it's not perfectly aesthetically pleasing it's ok - I'm just trying to make it feel complete). Maybe someday DD will use it too (she claimed she was going to start doing her own laundry after xmas but that hasn't happened. She's also 7 so I have some time).

That looks like a room full of neutral color on my monitor, so I'd go bold/saturated on the walls - fuschia? Kelly green? Tiffany blue? You'd have to experiment with a bunch of samples, but it could be really, really fun!

Built in ironing boards are too small if the main thing you iron is curtains. Make an ironing pad for the bed or hang them and steam them at the window.

@D_M_PNW sorry, my humor fell flat. Really I don't iron anything because I don't have an ironing board at the moment. Curtains I've ironed on the floor with towels underneath, but I really only iron them before I hang them, and that's it. My comment about curtains was really kind of frivolous. If I had an ironing board I would probably use it, at least occasionally. (Actually, that might get DH into the laundry room too, as it's his shirts that tend to need it. I told him back when we got married that I'll fold laundry but I'm not folding his socks and I'm not ironing his stuff, so at least I drew THAT line).

I got a couple samplizes delivered today... Succulent and tiaga. Really liking the succulent (left)! I know color doesn't really work all that well on computers but here you go!