Can a washing machine/dryer from other brands be installed in Ikea Metod?

Hello everyone,

I am currently planning my kitchen and have almost everything ready, but I still have one question. My washing machine and dryer need to be accommodated in the kitchen, and I would like to integrate them into cabinets like the rest of the kitchen. Does anyone have experience with this, what do I need to consider? Unfortunately, the washing machine is 60 cm wide, which is slightly too wide for the 60 cm Metod cabinet, and the dryer is 63.5 cm wide.

I was thinking of leaving the spots where the dryer and washing machine are supposed to go free, not installing a Metod base cabinet there, but building a corresponding intermediate frame out of wood in which the dryer and washing machine could stand. The countertop above would cover it accordingly, and I would attach hinges for doors on the respective sides. However, it bothers me to have to give up my usual 60 cm spacing because the fronts would no longer look the same... maybe someone has smart ideas on how to accomplish this?

Thank you very much for the tips!

Hello,

Who sells 63.5 cm wide appliances in Germany?

If there is enough space in depth, I would place the washing machine between two cabinets, screw strips in front of the washing machine to the neighboring cabinets, and screw the hinges to one strip.

I would place the devices in the corner in a kind of "DIY tall cabinet." It must be 70cm wide, without a bottom. With Metod fronts, you build a 2m high door, but you have to widen the fronts sideways. I would, for example, attach another 10cm cut front with a flat iron connector. In this 10cm strip, you drill cup holes for the hinges. This way, you have a 70cm wide cabinet, and behind it, you can stack the washing machine and dryer on top of each other.

Otherwise, you have to do a lot of tinkering, for example, finding a machine and dryer with <55cm depth. You can then install these under the countertop, but you need a very large kitchen if you want to install base units including the dishwasher without their own corpus. Because if it is stable, there should be a corpus standing to the left and right of each device. Two devices next to each other are not stable.

If the proposed tall cabinet appliance tower is not suitable for your kitchen planning, you have to limit your choice of appliances and buy special hinges, where the hinge mounting plates are routed into the sidewall of the neighboring corpuses. Only then will you get a 60cm niche dimension where you can mount a standard front. It would be easier to build 70cm niches and combine a 60x80 front and an 80x10 tall drawer front vertically into one front with a visible gap. Then you will certainly curse less when one day you have to clean the siphon behind the device, etc.

Addition:
maybe these hinges will give you the right idea, if the washing machine / dryer are only 59cm wide and the hinge is mounted on the neighboring cabinet, you have the solution:


You just have to have the courage to use a hole saw and drill over the edge. The drilling templates are supposed to be included with the hinges so that nothing goes wrong.

Thank you for the tips, great already!

I should mention that the entire kitchen is completely "customized". That means the countertop will be self-poured from concrete, and the fronts will also be self-made. My current plan was to omit two carcasses (for the dryer and washing machine) and use the centimeters gained that way. That way, for example, I could park the washing machine exactly between two carcasses on the floor with 0.5 cm clearance on each side and would thus only have one centimeter more than with a carcass, which probably wouldn’t be noticeable in the overall view at 60 cm. I would do the same for the dryer, just leaving a little more space at the sides. The hinges would then have to be attached to the carcass adjacent on the left and right, just on the other side. Is it clear what I mean, and can someone with experience say whether that sounds realistic?

No, it is not understandable. Why should you gain something if you leave out two corpuses? A 60 corpus is overall 60 cm wide and has an internal clear width of 56.4 cm. Which dryer model is 63.5 cm wide?