I would call them "homely".

The first Maytag I saw was in a neighbor's apartment in the building I was born into. Like all of our washing machines it was on casters and drained into the deep bowl of a wonderful two bay sink that was in every apartment in the complex. I remember that it had the black wringer agitator that seemed too short for the tub which was dark blue speckled porcelain (a combination that I'd still like to find).

Around that same period I discovered in my Aunt Dusty's palatial Lexington Mass. home her Maytag pair that were installed in their own little laundry room off the kitchen. Aunt Dusty was what my Mother called a "professional housefrau", incredible cook, immaculate house and as Mom used to say, "when you come to dinner at Dusty's house you think you showed up on the wrong night because there was absolutely no sign in the kitchen that any cooking was going on. Then, at dinner time, all of this perfectly prepared food would appear from nowhere. I remember her 'Tag had that heavy convex lid that contained all the organisms for water level and safety power cut-off. And yes, they were both remarkably "retro" for that time period.