38 Laundry Room Designs That Stack Washers and Dryers to Save Space

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Stacking a washer and dryer is a straightforward way to free up floor space in a laundry room, and a new roundup of 38 designs shows how homeowners and designers have applied that approach across a range of room sizes and styles. The collection, compiled by Better Homes & Gardens, includes projects from interior designers and bloggers in locations such as New York, Nashville, and Sydney.

Many of the featured spaces use vertical stacking to fit laundry into closets, hallways, or under-stair nooks. In a Sydney home, designer Joanne Yeomans of Issy & H Creative built a custom laundry space under the stairs, with the stacked white washer and dryer hidden behind doors that fold away when not in use. Blogger Laura Gummerman of A Beautiful Mess built a freestanding cabinet for stacked units in her 1960s ranch house after finding the existing laundry closet too small for modern machines.

Concealment strategies

Several designs focus on hiding appliances when they are not running. A laundry closet from Leanne Ford Interiors uses a sliding barn door painted white. Kate Marker Interiors placed a stacked washer and dryer behind a heavy tasseled pale gray curtain. RailiCA Design used a sliding pocket door, and Emilie Fournet Interiors in London chose folding pistachio green mirrored doors. In an industrial chic New York loft, Elizabeth Roberts Architects installed a wall of built-in wood cabinetry that conceals the stacked units.

Others treat the laundry area as a design feature. Blogger Aniko Levai of Place of My Taste turned a small second-floor laundry room into a boho-style space with peel-and-stick floral wallpaper, black stacked appliances, custom wood shelving with an integrated folding table, and a macrame curtain. In a Nashville garage conversion, Meg Kelly of Clella Design added colorful patterned wallpaper and large checkered curtains to conceal built-in storage cabinetry.

For larger rooms, stacking can leave space for additional functions. A spacious laundry room from Sissy + Marley Interior Design includes a stacking washer dryer combo, built-in storage in pale gray and natural wood, and under-counter LED lighting. Kellie Burke Interiors built a pair of stacked washer dryers into the wall of a family laundry room, leaving room for a deep farmhouse-style sink and a large central island for folding. Marie Flanigan Interiors used double stacked washer dryers along a single wall in a black and blue laundry room, keeping floor space clear.

The roundup also includes budget-conscious approaches. Jessica Welling Interiors used blue-green paint, waterproof luxury vinyl flooring, Ikea shelving, wall-mounted brackets for an ironing board, and metal pull-out basket drawers with chalkboard labeling in a compact laundry room. A clean white and silver laundry closet photographed by Sarah Szwajkos relies on stacked appliances to leave floor space for hampers and drying racks.