I also have a washer dryer in the kitchen. While I love my compact electrolux the matching dryer takes 240... I looked at the laundry centers long and hard...the thin twin kept being the favorite but for looks, if it will be visible in your kitchen, I'd opt for the new gray Frigidaire ( OK, I'm shallow). You need to consider your load size, when I really looked at the size of the loads that I was running a small washer was just fine. ( I also prefer to throw on a load of day and never have it stack up.) I was able to use two different laundry center units while we were on vacation. One of them was much easier to lean over and pull the laundry out of the washer than the other. I recommend you check reviews, find the model that you are thinking of purchasing in a store and lean over and imagine yourself pulling the laundry out of the washer (noticing in particular where the door of the dryer is in relation to your head, will you constantly hit your head on it?) because that is what you going to do. Most laundry centers do not have reversible doors so you need to pay attention to what your space requirements are for the door opening. Alternatively, you may still be able to buy a used gas dryer of the smaller size. You can buy 120 V dryers. What some people have done is to purchase a 120V washer dryer combo-one machine and a second machine that is a 120 V dryer. The issue with the smaller machines is that in order for the dryer to be effective the wash load has to be split in two so they wash a full load in the washer dryer combo and then dry half of the load in the dryer and dry the other half in the washer dryer combo. You should also be aware that there are high speed spinners on the market so if your washing machine doesn't spin enough water out and drying takes forever, you may want to buy one of these, I think they spin for all of two minutes, remove substantial amounts of water, and cost less than $100.

Hey @acm, Just as an aside ... a few years back when I was renovating a 200 year old farm house the client asked that we put the laundry into the newly dug deeper basement. The challenge was getting the unit down the 25" stairwell. (You win by an inch) In the end we decided to cut a trap door into the living room floor and then after lowering the units into the basement we closed the trap and put an area rug over the cut portion of the floor. I bumped into the client over the holidays and she reminded me of the"access door", as she called it, as she retold the story of having to change the washer this past year. That hatch came in handy again.

Has anyone else bought this unit? Did you buy the extended warranty with it? Did you vent it to the right?

Wouldn't the dryer be awfully high then? I'm taller than average and I wouldn't want my dryer to be any higher than it already is, not that I'm really disagreeing with you about how low the washer is. That being said, it's your house, so if you have room in your laundry closet, go for it! Just do it in such a way that it is easily removable for the next person.