The latest wrinkle in my addition planning calls for moving the laundry to the 2nd floor hallway — in a closet. A separate laundry room got squeezed out.
I have about 8 ft to work with and my idea is to go with stacked W/D to one side, with a 5+ ft. counter for folding etc. to the side.
Ideally, when doing laundry, it would be best to have the full 8 Ft. opening open at the same time. But 4 ft doors, even bi-fold seem like a bit much. Any bright ideas?
Getting the details right for a wall assembly with the control layers to the exterior and lots of drying potential.
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Accordian doors.
Don't stack. The units I've seen that are designed for stacking aren't the best performing. The dryer exhaust becomes particularly troubling.
But go for front loaders still, and put a counter top over them with a small base cab on either side. You'll still have your folding table, etc. And where the stack used to be, you'll now have a hanger area for hanging things coming right out of the dryer plus a linen closet.
Stonefever
You can stack just about any W/D unit now, just get a kit and stack, dont have to buy the ones that are "made stackable"
Doug
Do you have 4ft. of wall space on both side of the closet opening?
Borrow about 2" from the width of the hallway and mount a pair of 4/0 x 6/8 flush door slabs on slider tracks. You could hide them in a false wall (pocket door style) but that would take up too much room in a hallway.
Make them framed doors with dry erase panels or chalk board panels for kids drawings or household notes. Never look for a scrap of note paper again.
Use a pair of vinyl accordian-fold panels in the opening. They take up about 4" of space when folded open.
Sam's Club (in my area) has a roll up shade that would cover the opening. Only drawback is that it roll UP, like a typical roll UP screen. Different??
Build two pairs of tambour tracks and pretend you have a pair of large roll top desks on their sides.
Hang a pair of shower curtains on rods and just push them back when you do the laundry.
String a bead curtain for that retro 60's look.
Case the opening and leave it open. Just do a good job on the folding table and the drawers and cabinets above and you'll want to show it off.
I bought a front loader washer and dryer.
You might consider it.
You can lay down a table top on top of them for folding.
Just a thought for ya.
BE well
andy
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They're not the easiest of the possible solutions, but pocket doors would achieve all your goals, I think.
Back to the bifolds.
Johnson makes mount hardware so that they open doors will lie flat against the walls instead of sticking out.