Measure your laundry area to determine how much available space you have to create a laundry folding station. Write those dimensions down on a piece of paper. If you're planning to position your folding station in the middle of the room, leave a minimum 2-foot area around the station's perimeter for ease in walking.
Decide what you would like to incorporate into your laundry folding station besides a flat surface for folding clothes and towels. Storage areas for detergents, sorting bins for clean and dirty laundry, and trash containers typify laundry station additions.
Place a free-standing metal, plastic or wooden table in a large laundry space. Refer to your space measurements for an accommodating table size. A larger folding table can also provide a space for kids to work on homework while you're doing laundry. Slide large wicker baskets under a folding table for sorting dirty clothes and towels. Leave a couple of empty baskets to fill with clean, folded clothing for ease in carrying items to their designated rooms. Tuck away a trash container underneath the table as well as a couple of stools. Top the table with see-through containers to sort socks and undergarments by color or size. Position a wheeled garment hangar at one end of the folding station to quickly hang items that don't need folding.
Position an all-in-one laundry folding station in smaller laundry areas. A laundry cart with wheels for easy mobility allows it to be easily parked against a wall when not in use. Many compact, mobile laundry stations come equipped with an attached laundry bag, pullout baskets for additional storage, drawers, shelves and a folding table that extends when you need it.
Attach a folding workstation to a wall for tight laundry areas with very limited floor space. Typically, these space-saving laundry stations fold out from the wall to create a generous size table when fully extended. After laundry sorting and folding is completed, the workstation neatly folds flat against a wall until needed.