Oh brilliant hazelligan-just brilliant!! My trick is when they insist on wearing the same dreadful, manky, faded, stained, damaged T-shirt/ top/ jumper/cardigan is for it to disappear into laundry purgatory. Procedure as follows ; Stage 1 Item arrives for laundering. Laundry Maid /Fairy aka ME leaves the offending article into the pending tray aka the floor. Pending tray is emptied with contents being place into suitable container aka black plastic bag. The item is then posted to America aka place black bag in the rubbish bin. Stage 2 If the item is ever missed, it'll be at least 3 wks before Laundry Maid is contacted re same - usually when she is off-duty + doing nothing aka relaxing. Laundry Maid will inform owner that she has no idea which item is under discussion + remainder of 10 min conversation will establish description of article - Are you sure it's black + not navy. It's got an airplane printed on it? Really? Finishing up with a promise to look for same in a timely fashion. 3 weeks later, the first conversation takes place all over again. This time the Laundry Maid instructs owner to search his own room thoroughly + whilst he's at that he can clean room, throw out rubbish, return crockery + cutlery to the kitchen area where the Kitchen Maid is on duty + change bed linen. This tactic is double-edged as although you get 1 clean room, a vast amount of washing-up + laundry is generated. However, owner has now forgotten about missing article. 3 weeks later, discussion is resumed but Laundry Maid now instructs owner to look for missing item in siblings' rooms, pets sleeping quarters, existing dirty laundry basket, ironing basket, all kit-bags + holdalls and back + boot of car. This often generates more crockery, more soiled laundry, stinking sports kit but at least the original offending article will not turn up. In the very unlikely event that the issue is ever raised again - repeat stage 2 all over again. But time consuming- but works a treat!!

We have a utility room and in there i have American sized machines. However, in the kitchen I kept ordinary sized washing machine. It sits a cupboard and has kitchen doors on it. It has a normal sized cupboard next to it with a door and then a Kitchen end panel ( breakfast bar width ) to make it look right. Therefore, you need to discuss what doors and end panels / side panels are available from the kitchen supplier to find out how it can be put together. Most kitchen suppliers do tall doors to hide integrated Fridge / Freezers and tall larder cupboards, so you just need for them to work out for you how it can be done with what they sell. I don't think it's going to be that hard ! The only thing to rember. is that if you are using a standard size washing machine and tumble dryer, they are different in depth to Integrated appliances, therefore, all cupboards will need to come out at the front to make them line up. Alternatively, to save on space, buy integrated appliances and keep all the cupboards standard depth. At the end of the day ask the Kitchen suppliers, they are the ones that are paid to solve these problems, but, yes it can be done !

I have a Miele washing machine with another brand tumble dryer over the top of it. We made the tall units deep and wide enough to fit them into. If you just want to have them side by side on the floor make sure you have a deeper worktop to allow for the plumbing and then add a door to give that the integrated look. It's easy to do and cheaper to have freestanding appliances rather than integrated.

Insulation these days is first class so yes it can be done. People plan ovens and fridge freezers next to each other with no problems.