Thanks for your kind words. Sadly my laundry room is not so pretty. That's why I have this ironing board in my kitchen!! It's very handy.

I have a Haefle. I don't do a ton of ironing but I've had it for five years and I've been happy with it. I thought I'd pull out the old freestanding one from time to time but haven't used it since. My laundry is in an unfinished basement utility room so the ironing board in the drawer is in my kitchen.

Have you thought about creating an island with drawers and such, have it put on casters, have the ironing board installed in one of the drawers as a pull out. The best way to iron is on a board for me, not on a large flat surface. All the garment angles really need the shape of the ironing board to be ironed successfully IMHO. Here is my pullout, there are other designs. Or you can have a wall mounted one. When the board is unfolded it rises to the hight of the counter. Hafele and Rev-a-Shelf make these styles. Check the dimensions for the different types and see if it will work in your space. Having an ironing board on top of a 36" counter would make the board too high for me, unless the counter is at table height which is 30" tall.

I like that this is low to the ground, and not in the middle of the wall. I'm figuring I could mount it next to the entryway door, and use the top of it as display space. Or, I could add a deeper marble shelf there (maybe using thresholds from Home Depot), and set a basket for mittens, or whatever. The drop-down ones are nice, too--but they just make such a big impact. This looks much more like a piece of furniture. Our building has a dumb-waiter in the hallway, and I'd hoped this would fit below it--but it's a bit too high. If we ever decided, as a bldg, to eliminate the dumbwater option, I'd be investigating how to put an ironing boar in the dumbwaiter. In that spot, the board would completely block one of the kitchen doors, and sort of make the rest of the hallway hard to use. But my intent for this would be a 5-minute ironing of the shirt I want to wear today. I can do touch-ups w/ the small folding ironing board, but it's just so much more involved.