While I am not a woman, I am married to one. We do have the built in Iron A Way. It is not used as much in our home as we planned to, but it was not because the product is not sturdy. It can handle a lot of pressure, and downward force.
I would like to say that the reason we do not use ours often is because we just put one in. Meaning we did not take the time to properly look at how we would be positioned in the room, and the working Triangle of the space.
Like a Kitchen, your Laundry process has a work-flow to it. That was installed for a client 7 years ago, and they use it all of time because we specifically designed the space around their work-flow.
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