LAUNDRY APPLIANCE COMPRISING A DRAWER POSITION DETECTING SYSTEM

A laundry appliance (100) is provided. The laundry appliance comprises a cabinet (105) accommodating a laundry treatment chamber and a storage drawer (115) comprising at least one compartment for containing laundry treatment agent (220(1), 220(2); 230(1); 230(2)).The cabinet comprises a drawer seat (120) for slidingly housing the storage drawer. The storage drawer is configured to slide with respect to the drawer seat between:- a retracted position, in which the storage drawer is retracted inside the drawer seat, and- an extracted position, in which the storage drawer is at least partially extracted from the drawer seat.The laundry appliance further comprises a drawer position detecting system (530) for detecting when the storage drawer is in the retracted position. Said drawer position detecting system comprises a target element (310) and a sensor element (320) configured to sense a proximity of the target element to the sensor element. A first element between said target element and said sensor element is located on the storage drawer and a second element between said target element and said sensor element different than said first element is located on the cabinet.