One stacked, front-loading, washer & dryer set exist on every other floor of my apartment building.

I love that there's a set on my floor, but it essentially serves 12 apartments...
...and you wouldn't believe how disgusting it is to pull someone's laundry out after it's been sitting in the washer or dryer for a few hours (days?) and discover that a woman has washed her undergarments w/ the protective pad still inside.
=:-p

And since they are card-reader machines, I occassionally need to go to down to the lobby to re-charge the card w/ funds to pay for the machines...
...so I'd be thrilled to have my own machine(s) in a spare closet or in the kitchen - I imagine that they'd easily pay for themselves in a matter of 2-3 years.

I grew up with a washer/dryer in the kitchen, feel like it took up so much space and it could get loud. at the same time, having my own w/d would be ideal kitchen, living room, etc where ever! But my inlaws have theirs in the guest bathroom which i love! like Bethany we pop our towels in the dryer when we visit and it's heaven! can't wait until we have our own w/d! ahhh to not have to wait for the super slow elevator, be wary of dropping something often puddled floor and occasionally broken washers that dont wash after you've used your last quarters or dryers that don't dry so your clothes are not warm damp and smelly!

I had a really cute all-in-one portable front loading ventless w/d unit in my loft that was super easy to use. In fact, when I moved I was able to sell it on craigslist for nearly what I paid for it as they were hard to find 5 years ago and retained their resale value. There are many models available today and the one unit saves space.

Here in US we (as most people) have it in the basement, in a separate laundry room, it is quite tiresome to carry it back and forth though we do have a laundry shoot, makes it a little easier. But I did grow up with a washing machine in a bathroom of our city apartment, I never even though that it could be located anywhere else until I came to US, it is very logical to me to have it in the bathroom.

I grew up with the washer and dryer in the kitchen too. It was the kind that you hook up to your kitchen faucet. Sometimes you're a slave to your water source. In my current home, our laundry set-up in the basement. The great part is, there's a section where the basement is a bit more finished and I decided to use it as the place where I store my clothing, so it's awesome. In an ideal world, I'd have a massive walk-in closet with the washer and dryer in there.

Sweet!

After years of apartment living, and having to slog my dirty laundry out to the laundromat, I cannot not help but express the joy of having my own washer and dryer. Okay, it's in the basement, so it's a *little* bit out of reach, but I am still delighted even when I drag my laundry basket down a flight of stairs, thankful that I don't have to leave the house.

My new place has a separate and spacious laundry/utility room in the apartment. I'm thrilled and excited to have my new machines delivered.

I live in an apartment building and the laundry room is in the basement. I'm happy the building has laundry, but we only have two washing machines to service the entire building and it is sort of a pain. I sense I'd love an in-unit w/d even more than my dishwasher...which is to say a LOT.

In Canada I've seen them mostly in bathrooms, basements or separate laundry rooms. In the US I have seen them mostly in basements (or in my case, a closet) and in the UK most people seem to have only a washer located in the kitchen and line dry their clothes. This is only personal experience, so take it with a grain of salt! I prefer the separate room for laundry as I just don't like having to look at the machines.

we put ours in our walk in closet on the second floor of our row house. very convenient to put clothes away.

Ours is in a small screened-in room off the kitchen, and I love it. My favourite, though, was the stackable unit I had in my bathroom a few years back.

I like my W/D as close to the bedroom as possible. That is where most of the laundry is generated: clothes, sheets, and towels. It's easier to move a few dish towels to the kitchen than carry most of the laundry from the kitchen.

But my most favorite place is the corner laundry, one that picks up and delivers. That is a sweet luxury.

Mine is in the basement of my home with a bathroom laundry chute that drops the clothes right in front of the appliances.

My studio is in another (finished) part of the basement so it's no big deal putting a load in, working, and then carrying it up for hubby to fold and put away.

Preferably in a laundry room off a kitchen - had this set up in one place I lived as a child and it seemed the most ideal. Right now in a small closet to one side of the kitchen.

I have a washer that rolls out of the closet when I need it, and attaches to the sink. And a much smaller version of the ventless dryer in the picture. (A recent hand-me-down.)

I still have no idea where put the dryer. I'm toying with just leaving it on the kitchen counter....I have a corner that just accumulates clutter.

I had a one bedroom apartment (in a complex, in the "handicapped" building -- I have foot and back problems) which had a side-by-side washer and dryer in a large closet off the dining room. (In the non-handicapped units, I think they were stacked units in a utility closet in the kitchen.) My unit took possible wheelchair access into account... Loved it!

Then our first house had one bathroom on the second floor for the three bedrooms. It was divided into two sections, one with the linen closet, bath tub/shower, and toilet with a connecting door to the master bedroom and one to the other part of the bathroom. In the second part, with a connecting door to the hallway, were the washer and dryer and the vanity. It worked pretty well, and I learned how nice it is to have a luandry near bedrooms!

In my new house, we have a laundry closet with side-by-side front loaders in a tiny space only wide enough for the two machines with about 2 feet in front. It's over the top of the L shaped stairwell on teh bedroom floor... I have a fold down mini ironing board, and although other people might find it too tight, it works for me for most things. (I have a normal sized portable one for sewing a nd ironing large stuff when necessary.) One of the Huge positive things about home ownership is (almost) never having to use a laundromat!!!

Our laundry room is in our half bathroom off the kitchen. The set up works really well for us, I have a place to spray my sons diapers off and store the diaper pail. I am glad that it is in room off the kitchen (and not in the kitchen itself).

What a beautiful bathroom. Still - the washer and dryer in the picture look a little out of place. But for sure it is convenient...

I prefer basement. I have no dryer now because the only place would be the kitchen and that would take up too much space.

When I lived in Japan I had a super old washing machine that lived on the balcony. It was cold water only, and very, very low tech - which I found shocking for the what I thought was the land of high-tech. No dryer - clothes dried outside on the line, even in winter. In my second apartment it was a much more modern machine that weighed my clothes to let me know how much soap to use. It was in the bathroom, and I had the luxury of a dryer - but it was on the balcony. Back in Canada we had a stackable washer/dryer in a closet, which was okay except for the piles of laundry in the hallway on washing days. Now we live in a basement-less bungalow and have an awesome utility room with a front loading, stackable washer/dryer combo. Love it!

Best w/d set I have ever had we lived in a townhouse, they were side by side on the second floor, in a double door closet, that was right in the middle of the three bedrooms (one with an en suite) and the main bathroom.

I also grew up with the laundry room in the basement. I remember helping my mom carry the laundry up and down was the biggest pain in the butt. The ideal place for me would be in a room off the kitchen, but my laundry room is still in the basement :(

Our stacked washer/dryer set is in the kitchenof out humble 700-or-so sq ft apartment, right next to the oven. Pro: not having to schlep everything out to a laundromat/friend's house every few days. Con: grease splatters on the dryer >.<

We're in an apartment building and ours is in a laundry room right off our kitchen. Other residents have theirs in their own individual locked laundry rooms down the hall but I like, honestly, the privacy of it being right in the apartment.

Laundromats for most of my childhood. My family got a house with the washer/dryer under the stairs (all bedrooms upstairs, staircase in the middle of the house) and that was fun in a "Throw the dirty laundry off the balcony" way, but it would have been more convenient centrally located to the bedrooms.

My only apartment with washer/dryer had them in the vanity area of the bathroom- but it was a 1 bedroom and that was the only place they could have put it. I thought it was going to be nice but it meant that we would shut off the vanity area along with our bedroom when guests came over to hide the laundry mess. Because it was so convenient and could be hidden- it was always a terrible mess.

Our house has the laundry in the kitchen. It's not quite as convenient- but because of it's public location (you can close it off with bi-fold doors, but there's only so much you can hide behind bi-fold doors) it's much more organized... which actually outweighs the convenience of having it more centrally located.

In the UK, most people have their washing machine and dryer in the kitchen. If it's a big house, then they'll have a separate utility room. I've never seen a washer/dryer in a bathroom before but it does make logical sense. Most bathrooms over here are far too small to accommodate anything other than bath/sink/toilet though.

I have a small pantry-laundry room that can be accessed indoors only through the narrow galley kitchen. It's tight when my husband's in the kitchen and I'm laundering. I may punch an archway from the laundry room to the living room. I hesitate because that would expose a back door and the pantry-laundry room to full view from the front door.

P.S. I may instead rearrange the kitchen appliances so that the opened dishwasher or refrigerator no longer block the pantry-laundry room archway.

In NYC I had an apartment with a stacked washer/dryer in my closet. It ate up closet space (it was a 300 sq. ft. apt. with a roommate) but it was so convenient. Now, in our townhouse, the laundry is in the dining room, and I find myself wishing it were on the same floor as our bedrooms, where most of the laundry is generated.

M parents have theirs in the half bath. It makes for nice one-level living (no upstairs/downstairs for most laundry). My favorite set up for myself so far was the time we had a skinny laundry room right across from the bathroom. It was just so well designed with a few shelves, so laundry was a cinch (and about two feet from the bedroom).

Bathroom, hands down. My dream home has it there and I expect them to start popping up in bathrooms in new apartment complexes soon. Most people disrobe in the bathroom for showers, so why not put in close at hand?

Ours are in the laundry room in the basement. We also have a laundry chute. I like having a dedicated laundry room that can be shut off; I like being able to organize the laundry and not worry that someone may see the "waiting zone."

My first few years in NYC, there was no laundry in the building so I learned the pleasures of "Drop-off". I would drop-off in the morning on the way to work (at the end of my block), and at $10-12 a week, I would stop by on my way home and pick up my washed, dried, and folded clothes.

Now the laundry room is a short elevator ride away. Clean, modern, a dozen washers and dryers. Easy, but not as lux as drop-off.

Our laundry is in the garage, which is ok most of the time. The temp changes with the weather, but it's not too horrible Personally, I'd rather have it in the garage than the kitchen or bathroom.

I'm a big germaphobe, so the idea of the w/d in the bathroom just grosses me out! The kitchen is better, but I'd just worry about scents or even spills getting to the clothes. Of course, the dream is to have a separate laundry room/closet.

I am lucky to have a spacious laundry room. It is as far away from my bedroom as it can be though, which makes for slight annoyances. Seriously, though I am mostly glad that it's far away due to the fact that my washer and dryer, although perfectly functional, are very loud. If I had them closer to the bedroom I would probably have to buy a quieter set and I am waaaaaay too cheap for that.

When I lived in the Midwest, all the apartments had separate laundry rooms in each apartment, but did not provide a washer and dryer. But on the East Coast, all the apartments have their own laundry room and include a washer and dryer.

Does anyone else find it incredibly wasteful to run the dryer in order to warm a single (already dry) towel? Somewhere around 6% of the average household's yearly electricity consumption is generated by a clothes dryer as is! I understand that sometimes you need your laundry ready right away, or you're trying to shrink down a new t-shirt or something, but for all the other times, if you have a living space large enough to accommodate a dryer, you probably have space to put up a drying rack.

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Halfie - I do admit I find it incredibly wasteful to run a washer or dryer for just a few clothes - if I don't have a full load, then there's no need to do laundry yet. You do miss the point there are stackable washer/dryers which only take up the space of one appliance. Plus even if I took my dryer out and violated lease rules and hung a clothes line on my balcony, I'd still have to set up a drying rack elsewhere since they can be longer than a dryer and I doubt things get dry quickly in a shut closet. The dryer is worth the convenience and energy - but only if people don't use it for one single towel!

I'm in London and I have a separate washer and dryer, located in the kitchen as under counter appliances. For ease of use while cooking or playing with my daughter in the living room, it can't be beat. However, I tend to find that the kitchen gets covered in dryer lint, no matter how often I empty the filter, sweep the floor or wipe the counters. It's a bit gross. I would prefer a separate room or in the basement as in the US.

Ours is like yours—washer dryer in the bathroom. So far I like it. This is the first time I've had a washer/dryer in my apartment though, so I might be biased.

Hated having mine in the kitchen in London. You've either got cooking smells around the laundry or laundry smells around the food. Not a great mix. On the other hand, it does explain why 'dryers' in the UK are essentially just little ovens that try to cook your clothes dry!