Here is a link to a Danby freezer. At my job they have purchased Danby fridges and fridge/freezers for all the office areas and I have to say they are quite nice for such reasonably priced appliances. They are quiet, have nice glass shelves and decent drawers. I would get their all fridge/all freezer and do a side x side thing if I had enough room.
Anyway, this freezer is 24" wide but it is manual defrost.

Here is a link that might be useful: danby freezer

Thanks, deedles. I did look at this Danby model but ruled it out because specs call for 5" clearance at back and on each side. In other words, a 24" wide freezer requires 34" of width and about 30.5" of depth (it's 25 11/32" deep). It's a decent sized freezer but it uses up as much space as the Frigidaire and Kenmore, which are 30% larger. But quiet operation is good. Perhaps I should add it back to my list since choices seem to be quite limited. Thanks!

Wow. I guess I didn't notice that... eek.

Lisa, I know Liebherr is a king's ransom, but perhaps it's worth it? We saved in other areas to afford it and haven't regretted the decision once. Our Liebherr (30" model) is virtually silent, well laid-out, and keeps produce fresh longer than any fridge I've ever had. These are the reaons one buys a fridge. As a bonus it has some insane warranty (like 20 years?) on it, and is made in Europe by folks earning a living wage with health care.

For us, the price was also very painful but ultimately worth never having to worry about fridge stuff again. We'd buy one again in a hot second. It's sexy to boot: the doors go thunk satisfyingly, like a '40's sedan.

Best of luck deciding!

No worries, deedles, I forgot to check this detail many times.

Thanks, circuspeanut! Love your description of its doors closing.

It's wonderful to hear that you are very pleased with your Leibherr. So it must live up to its English translation of its name "Mister Loved One" (according to my recall of my 3+ years of German in HS many moons ago). It certainly meets all our needs. That said, I find it humorous that we would spend more on our laundry room freezer than we spent on our kitchen fridge a few years ago. Seems like it should be the other way around. But for us to get all that we want in our small laundry room, our only other choice is to move a wall. We can steal 1' from our garage but that would require moving the water heater, which is an additional expense. That might end up costing the same - or perhaps more? - than buying the Liebherr. We've looked at all the other options to gain some space - moving the closet and crawlspace access, moving the laundry room upstairs - but none of these other ideas work, no matter how hard we try (and boy have we tried). So we're down to 3 options: steal a foot from the garage, buy the Liebherr, or compromise on our wish list for our laundry room. The latter is the cheapest, of course, and we could live with it but I don't want to quit trying to meet all goals until we've exhausted all other possibilities.

Anyone else have words of wisdom to offer me about freezer choices?

I've had the Frigidaire 14 cu. ft. auto defrost since 1990. It's okay but definitely gets pretty loud over time as the compressor ages. Starts up/stops with a big shuddering THUNK! for the last seven years.

I keep expecting it to fail one day, but it chugs along. The service guy I had look at it, told me the compressor costs almost as much as a new freezer.

Racks are pretty crappy, not very adjustable. Definitely not a quality appliance, but serviceable. Pretty much describes Frigidaire in general.

If you've got no height limitation, I'd get the Liebherr.

Still pretty expensive, but a commercial unit? This one is about $2.4k.
example: TurboAir

The only other thing I have to offer is I have the danby with someone else's name on it. If you get one, consider raising it up a little as it doesn't have toe clearance.

Just be sure to look hard at the reviews for whatever Liebherr you are looking at. The home we are renting for the duration of the remodel has a Liebherr, and I loathe it.

The ice maker doesn't work (it has broken three times, once it broke a week after it was "fixed"), but of course we can't remove it, and it takes up the vast majority of one of the freezer drawers.

It keeps the temperature we set very unreliably. For some reason, it always wants to default to 44 degrees. Water kept in there is not cold enough - and we've already been having to buy bagged ice because the icemaker broke! There's been food spoilage for this reason too. Sometimes we use this "supercool" button that is supposed to cool down the freezer quickly if, for instance, you have just loaded it with a bunch of warm leftovers. So far, it has not worked, but the fridge acts like it is possessed by a spirit who is trying to communicate with us by beeping - loudly - in Morse code.

Obviously most people love their Liebherrs and this one is clearly a lemon. Just...check.

Best of luck!

Bean

Wow, bmore, but that's one huge freezer! And actually a bargain for how much freezer space it offers compared to the cost of the smaller units I'm considering.

Thanks for the tip about Danby freezers. So far, all the ones I've looked at require huge clearances - 5" all around - and given my small space and my big needs, I hate to give up 10" of width to nothing but air.

Thanks for the heads up about your Liebherr issues, drbeanie2000. Sorry that you seem to be stuck with a lemon. At least I hope it's a lemon and not a common problem with this brand. I would hate it if we spend $$$ on an appliance only to have it not perform any better than a cheaper appliance. Plus, IME, the more expensive a unit, the more expensive it is to repair. I have an aces appliance repair guy - I plan to run my choices past him before we make a purchase.

I purchased a freezer for my garage after my house was built not realizing that I didn't have the right outlet for it. Had to call the electrician back.

Make sure you have the right outlet in your laundry room.

It's on our list already but thanks for the reminder, red_lover!

there are other euro style freezers out there...tall and skinny like you are looking for. Liebherr is the most popular and pricy but generally very good. LG and GE have skinny euro style models available in Canada but I'm not sure in the states...there are other brands, just cannot remember their names.
Caspian

Sigh, this is my lot in life. What I often want is only available in Canada and Europe, not here. My choices for tall, skinny freezers seem to be Liebherr and others of its ilk, all more expensive than Liebherr. I even checked Ikea, thinking that maybe they'd have something out of the ordinary but nope, they don't. Canada is only 7 hours north of me ... maybe I need to take a road trip? That's probably a crazy idea.

I also want an oven and a half (full size below, half as tall oven above). These are available in Europe but not in the states. Everything here is super-sized. I feel like Goldilocks in a Papa Bear world. ;-)

Is there anyway you could get a Summit type front door freezer and set it on top of a counter, then you'd have storage below and no clearance issues. Or is counterspace an issue for you, too?

I've thought about doing something like that, deedles. I have counter on the other side of the laundry room so I don't need counter on this side. It's really a small space - 63" wide on one side, 84" wide on the opposite wall with a door at each end of the space. Into this I'm trying to fit a stacking W/D, a small freezer, a sink, a pet feeding station, 30" of counter, 57" of clothes rod above counter and sink, a shoe bench and storage. I've really got to find a narrow freezer. I could opt to keep the freezer in the garage but I hate having it out there because it's a nuisance to go back and forth between kitchen and garage. But something may have to give.

If only I could magically shuffle the extra space we have on our upstairs landing to my laundry room. ;-)

Still no luck finding a Summit dealer locally. Have you seen these freezers?