I have FL washer/dryer but I have them up on those pedestal thingy's. The advantage is no bending over. I highly recommend putting them up on the pedestals. Instead of having them low with a shelf on top, why not have a shelf that comes down on top of the sink so DH can fold over the sink?

I fold my laundry on the kitchen counter using a flipfold. You might want to try that, then measure the height of your kitchen counter and the height of the counter above the washer-dryer. It's my understanding that the washer and dryer may be on optional pedestals. You could see if they could be put directly on the floor.

Another option is to stack the wash-dryer vertically and have a separate folding table. I am considering that in my laundry room, but I may try to integrate a pull-out table into the cabinetry.

I am 5'7 and moved to front load with pedestals - too tall for folding but I do 'snap' the hanging shirts and lay them on top until I am finished and ready to hang. If you skip the pedestals I think it would be fine as it would be only a couple inches taller than standard counter height.

As far as depth - they are beasts. I just measured and mine stick out 2'9" from the wall with doors closed. Make sure you measure your space as you might have to pull forward even further than you have planned to get them flush. Mine stick out and I do not like it but I switched from top to front after I had it all planned out. Hind sight should have planned for either set up. :) If you do uppers make sure they are deeper as well. I'd go 20 for sure. 15" is still going to be hard to reach. You'd have to reach about 18" just to get to the stuff in the front.

Cpartist, thanks! The no bending thing would be nice. A folding area over the sink is a possible but I'm wondering if it would be too small as he currently folds on the kitchen table which is at least 5'x3'.

We recently switched from our old top-loaders to new front-loaders sitting on the floor, side by side, as in your photo. The tops are good for folding and stacking, but to my surprise the door openings are so low that I almost always scrape and bruise my arms on the inside top of the opening when loading clothes to both washer and dryer. I have to get down on my knees to load the clothes in some sort of balanced way if I want to avoid purple forearms! If I had to do it over, I'd buy the pedestal thingeys! I'm 6'-4", so that may have something to do with it!

Jane, go you mean a flip table? I was thinking the cabinet under the window in the laundry room may work as a flip up table. It would end up 3'x4'3" when opened which may work.

Autumn, thanks for those measurements. In pics they do seem deeper but I couldn't find realistic dimensions on the spec sheets. I was also planning on one of those boxes built in behind the dryer to help with the venting. I was thinking 15" for uppers but will look into 18".

Virgil Carter, I think you and cpartist have convinced me. I think the bending would be more of an issue than where to fold.

Are the pedestals a standard height? I'm guessing they are about 12"?

I have front loaders with the pedestals. Definitely too tall to tall to fold on.

without pedestals...they would be too low for emptying and switching loads, just as Virgil expressed.

Stacking might be an option? I'm 5'6 and I wonder if it's really any better. The washer would be really low, and the dryer controls would be really high. Trying to put heavy, wet clothes up into a dryer....I don't know.

i echo autumn's feelings re: depth. I feel like I am crawling into my dryer to empty it.

With a full size washer/dryer if you're under 5'4", if you stack them, it is very hard to reach the top controls. I know because I've tried multiple times. Plus, who wants to be constantly bending and then reaching up, although it is good exercise. (However we have a small stackable in our NY apartment and DH hates it because he's always banging his head on the top door.)

BTW: I just measured and the pedestals are 15" high

Every beach house we've rented in the past few years have had a stacked unit. I concur with cpartist that the controls are too high on the top unit. I could deal with it for a week but was happy to get home to my laundry room.

I'm 5'4" so wondered if these units are too tall for a usable folding area.

I'm not quite 5' tall, and I have no problem folding on top of my Whirlpool Duet set. I do not have pedestals or a countertop across the top of the machines -- I fold right on the machines.

If you're concerned about folding space, I suggest you skip the sink. We had a sink in our laundry room when I was a child; I have no memory of it being used -- ever. As an adult, I've never had a laundry sink and have never once said, "Why, I wish I had a sink."

With a full size washer/dryer if you're under 5'4", if you stack them, it is very hard to reach the top controls.

I know this is the standard school of thought, but I can reach the controls just fine -- yes, they're over my head, but I can reach them without difficulty. Perhaps I have extra long arms. OP, I suggest you go to the store and try it out. See if you're okay with it.

I have a sink in my current laundry and use it all the time. I actually wash my little dogs in there lol. My current laundry sink is deep and has a pull out faucet, perfect little dog shower.

I'm also planning for the cat litter box to go in the cabinet at the sink.

So I reworked it based on suggestions,

This is showing folding table set up. I like this because the dryer is accessible, stand at table, reach into dryer, fold, place in rolling cart. The other bonus to this is that you would have to put it away to use the room the rest of the time.

That does work Annette. One other thing I'd suggest and I'm doing with my kitchen is to pull the upper cabinets over the W/D forward so they are more accessible. Otherwise they'll be almost unusable.

Funny thing when you are shopping for them and they are all lined up next to each other they don't look as large as they really are at all. It's all about perspective. :O

Cpartist, I made the cabinets in that last update 18" deep over the w/d units. Would you make those more like 24"? I know I wouldn't be able to easily reach the back of those but I wouldn't be able to on the 18" either.

I just measured my W/D and it sticks out from the back 34" and they are 53" high with the platforms. A normal wall cabinet is 12-13" in from the front edge of a cabinet and a base cabinet is 36" high. Most wall cabinets are 18" off the counter so start at 54".

The way you have it designed your cabinets would be 16" back from the front of the W/D. For me that would be too far back.

Here they are 24" deep uppers. The shelf above the sink would be over a hanging rod.

I would do this instead of buying pedestal drawer units. I would love to have a spot to tuck away the laundry baskets.

Good idea.

After some more searching I prefer the pedestal open directly to the floor. I know I'd be dropping the basket on the floor to load clothes in washer and then would kick it under :D.

I don't see a good place to fold in there. It looks really tight. I don't even see a place where you could pull out a hidden folding surface.

Annette, a flipfold is not the same as a folding table. It is a plastic thingy they sell at Container Store that makes it fast to fold shirts and towels and some other things. They use them in clothing stores. It totally changed my dread of folding things.

As I mentioned before, I use the kitchen counter which for me is a perfect height. Folding on the bed would hurt my back. I would try to find some kind of folding table for the DH, but I don't see where you could put it in that room based on the washer-dryer discussion. I might look for a place to fold in a different room, and make it counter height. Maybe a room with a view. :-) The flipfold makes it super fast - I would get through a load/basket full in maybe ten minutes: dump, sort and flipfold. My kitchen counter peninsula is 2' x 8', so there is plenty of room for sorting multiple loads. But if you fold one load at a time, it can be finished in minutes and you don't need as much room.

Another thought is to have some kind of step up surface to raise your height so that it is comfortable to fold on the elevated countertop. That does not sound too safe: you don't want your head to hit the ceiling and you don't want to accidentally step off the step. I have been painting a lot lately and the little rubbermaid stepstool is used constantly. However I have to stand in one place, so I don't know if that would work for folding laundry. I would do it in a different room where I could move more freely. Unless... you could construct something safe that pulls out from under the machines and extends the length and has its own support underneath... IDK, it's a stretch.

Jane, my plan is to have a flip up table under the window. As my husband is a woodworker and will be making it we can make it whatever height we want. The window is at 40" from the floor so I'm thinking somewhere between 30"-36" tall. I prefer to fold on my bed or the kitchen table, both are about 30" which is a good height for me. If we make it 36" tall in the laundry then we will end up with a surface that is 36" wide by 51" deep. I don't know how much use it will get but since hubby is requesting it and he will be making it then I don't really care. The space under the window would have ended up as shelves so I won't miss the space in that regard.

This is kind of what I'm talking about, this is for a craft room but this is how it would work. Hubby would make ours to match the cabinetry.

Here is a mock up of it in my space.

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Both of us tend to fold and place in basket for transport back to the bedroom, so this should be plenty of space for one item at a time.

That looks good. Horizontal surfaces always get a lot of use.