Laundry Room in the Basement #1: Overall work flow/cabinets for laundry room

Given our very small house, I am trying to design and build a laundry room that provides maximum efficiency and looks good enough to leave open. The vision is to have a handwashing/storage for our three children and a good laundry folding/storage area for the grownups.

I am going to be building the cabinetry myself and looking for any ideas from the large-scale (you can’t put a sink there) to the smaller scale (you need a two inch toe kick in the bottom or don’t use birch

Here is the plan view: