Our laundry closet is off the master bedroom and has a washer with shelves above and with a cat litter box and a dryer with a clothes bar above. Our puppy needed to not bother the cat. The clothes are folded out of the dryer but I got an idea from this thread to fold them on the bed. Next time I am trying that.
I have lots of storage, cupboards and two large pullout drawers. I have a 5 foot hanging rod over the folding counter on one side. I like to fold my laundry as I take it out of the dryer, then put it in the basket for delivery to whatever room it’s going to. 
My favorite thing about my laundry room is my Iron Away ironing board. I couldn’t do without a sink in the laundry room, as I use steam when I iron and need access to water. We have our laundry room on the second floor and I love it.
My laundry room is right off my kitchen. I have a wall of closets with shelving in 2/3 and 1/3 for taller items like mop/broom and big bin with dog food on the floor. I have a rod to hang items that don’t go into dryer opposite W/D, with open shelving above where I store cases of seltzer/tonic etc.
I also have a 3 bag laundry sorter that I put towels used to dry dogs off dogs with, sweaters that need to be hand washed, etc.
I fold clothes on my kitchen island (a dog hair free zone) while watching TV.
Beds seem to be the favorite places for folding. I dump the pile onto the bed, fish out all socks, stash them away in the drawers, then I go after the undies, and so on. Mr. says that is laundry folding done the “Toyota way”! LOL.
I watch football and fold clothes. Laundry is more difficult when it is the off season.
I have a laundry/craft room but the laundry space allocated is small. Original plan was to put doors on it but we didn’t)
I have cabinets above washer/dryer (the 7 foot side) that are deep enough to hold the detergent etc. The cabinets only go across top of washer/dryer leaving room for a rolling rack next to w/d (butts up to wall) to hang clothes which I love–I put baskets underneath it to hold wash and I can hang dresses etc. The whole configuration is 5x7. Includes a plastic storage unit for more “stuff” (which takes 12 inches of the 7 foot side).
My rack to hang clothes is 40 inches with pull out extensions–with clothes on it the width is about 18 inches.
I either use the top of dryer to fold or go watch TV.
I use small binder clips to put socks together BEFORE washing. Can’t even tell you how much time that saves sorting socks. I hate socks. If you can train H to clip them together before they hit the hamper it’s even better.
I fold it straight out of the dryer so there are never piles of lean clothes.
We don’t have lean clothes either cause we eat too much.
Buy 10 pairs of socks of the same color and pattern. It really saves time when it comes to sorting.
Bunsen–MY socks are all the same. I’m low maintenance. It’s H that likes variety.
I like that my kids long ago decided that socks should never match.
Jealous of all the laundry rooms, wherever they’re located.
I think it might be easier to train the dryer to spit out socks in perfectly matched pairs than to train my absent minded prof Mr. to clip his socks together! :))
Our laundry room is a walk thru from the garage, next to the first floor master. I don’t fold in there.I have the dryers on drawer pedestals with some cleaning supplies below. A large decorative basket for some of DH’s clean gym clothes sits on the dryer. (A compromise.)
We have a deep corner cabinet next to a narrow one, with two narrow junk drawers. We store the stock of detergent and air freshners here. There is a high shelf over this with a hang rod. Other houses in my model have an empty space instead of cabinets and people use it for a upright freezer. No cabinet over the machines since with we have an under the stair sloped ceiling,
OP, have you see spaces build to hold multiple standard laundry baskets, either under the machines, in a bank along the wall or as a tower. They are big on Pinterest. I like those for easy family/color wash separating.
I like the idea of deep drawers for the detergent. The deep blind corner we have is a pain.
Re: deep drawers. I was very concerned that in the new place we did not have cabinets above the dishwasher to stash dishes. However, there is a set of deep drawers in the island - right across from it. Those drawers are so convenient for dish storage! No need to reach up into a cabinet. Being average height, anything beyond the second shelf is a big reach for me.
We used to have a sock gremlin who would insist on stealing socks frequently from our washer or dryer, mostly just ONE sock. Fortunately he’s gotten bored and left our household to plague somewhere else for awhile. 
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Baha - missed my chance to fix that one!
I preferred to do ironing (past tense- retired means infrequent dress shirts that I can do in 2 1/2 minutes-why bother sending out…) in front of the TV. I think fixed place boards are terrible- plus for some stuff you want to use the opposite end (tablecloths for that fancy once a year meal).
Howcum otherwise intelligent H’s can’t learn to put a pair of socks together and fold over the top to make it easy to get a pair later? Now retired H does his own folding but never the mostly his socks, sigh. At least his job is to empty the dishwasher (I’m the one who can max out filling it).
An open shelf was great in the old up north house for having seasonal access to hats, mittens… in an open container. A laundry room near the outside entrance is great for not tracking in dirt- the only catch may be streaking from it to clothes.
We have a mud room laundry room and have closed cabinets above the washer and dryer. It is harder to reach them than the kitchen cabinets so the top shelves aren’t used much. I like my ironing board that is recessed in the wall and hidden by a cabinet door. I have a small area to hang things to dry. The mud room laundry room is not a great idea.
One cool thing suggested by our contractor is the large counter top above the w/d that is installed with a piano hinge so the whole thing lifts up if we need to look behind the washer and dryer.