How long and wide is it our room? How big is the window? Anyway you could put shallow cabinets at the opposite wall across from the washer dryer? Take out the tall cabinet in that location and move it to the near end?

FWIW, here's my experience with pedestals/no pedestals. I used to have my washer and dryer up on pedestals, then we sold that house with appliances. For the last 2.5 years I've been using a craigslist set with no pedestals and can hardly wait for my new set that is coming with pedestals. I really hate bending/squatting to get my clothes in and out of washer and dryer. And I'm not very tall....5' 4".

I didn't get pedestals with mine but that is because they sit below a window in laundry room and I don't like the look of anything sitting up higher than the windowsill. No big deal here, not having pedestals. We did get loaner washer and dryer with pedestals, when we bought our set and they came in damaged, they seemed huge in the laundry room and I didn't like the look. It wasn't much of an adjustment between the 2.

I just got my first front loader set a couple days ago. I did not get pedestals because I wanted to try it out first and see if I really needed them. I fold clothes as they come out of the dryer and use the tops for folding so I didn't want to give that up (by using pedestals) if I didn't have to. I am already realizing that I want the pedestals. These machines are not only low, but deep. Their openings are a little LOWER than my old dryer, plus they are deeper.

Regarding your layout...do you have space to put the tall cabinet next to your freezer? And what are the room dimensions?

The room dimensions are about 6ft x 13'7". The idea for the tall cabinet was just a place to store the vacuum though it hasn't been in the way sitting on the wall where it is right now. Between the wall and the freezer, just as you walk in the door, is currently a laundry basket, a container for recycling on a shelf above that, and then another shelf for anything.

Keeping the machines on the floor allows room for a counter to be installed over them, thus making folding laundry very easy.

My machines are on pedestals, for ergonomic reasons. I am tall, have lots of lower back and neck trouble, and am not getting any younger. The pedestals were a must, when I bought my FL and matching dryer. No regrets at all. Folding the laundry elsewhere is worth it for me. I had to have someone come in and raise the cabinets that were over the old W/D set and it was still worth the expen$e. There is just no way I can have a FL washer sitting on the floor.

Thanks for the dimensions. I asked because I was wondering if a galley format would work in that space. You could build a platform with drawers underneath for the w/d set. The opposite wall could have your folding counter. But even with shallow lower cabinets, like the IKEA 15" base cabinets, there doesn't seem to be enough walking width, between the 2 sides. All depending on the depth of your washer, which I calculated at 34" deep. Could you see on the drawing program you are using? My machines are 24" depth, but the hall would only be 33" wide if I had the 15" cabinets along the opposite wall.

You could do something like this but remove the drawer stack and just have a counter there and put the kitty litter under it. Then you could have the tall cabinet next to the washer and the freezer next to that. This could work with pedestals too.

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Or this, with sink next to washer dryer and put freezer next to sink. You wouldn't have that bump out in the corner so you could have the counter go all the back to the wall next to the dryer and hide the kitty litter back there and have room for baskets/hampers under the counter too.

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I think it depends on your height. If you are tall, thennyes. I have a chair that I sit on when loading the washer or moving wet clothes from washer to dryer. It is moving the wet clthes that gets me. I have often thought that it would be smarter to put only the washer on a pedestal so that you pull the wet clothes out and throw them downwards into the dryer. Then you would pull the dry clothes up on top of the dryer where the counter over the dryer would be at the right height for a lot if people to use gor folding. I have never seen just the washer on a pedestal but to me it makes a lot of sense.

I waited to see if I wanted pedestals before I got them. I did. Then 7 years later I sold the pedestals as it made our small laundry room/mudroom seem smaller and the machines were oppressive. The pedestals were nice when taking clothes out so functionality was good but aesthetics weren't (in our area). And I'm short (5'1" so no biggy)

Are your washer and dryer stackable? That would give free up a lot of room for a folding counter, more storage, etc. Mine are stacked and you do bend to get things out of the washer, but the dryer is at eye level (for me, but I am 5' 0").

I have a pair of Bosch machines from 2006. Why did I buy Bosch? Because of the height of their pedestals, which allowed me to keep my upper cabinetry and allowed me the room on top of the machines that I use to stage parties or store items. If I had taller machines with taller pedestals, I'd be sunk. When it comes time to replace the machines, I'm already figuring on trying to save these pedestals or if that doesn't work, I'm going to build a platform for them. Bending over with a load of wet towels won't work for me!

I have pedestals and I'm 5'0". Unlike akl_vdb the aesthetics are fine in my laundry room. We are remodeling and I will keep the pedestals or if we ever replace the machines, have similar set up. I could make more space and enlarge my pantry if I stacked them as some of my neighbors with same model house have done, but I'm too short to reach the dryer if I do so. Maybe I own different models than Cooper8828 but I've also seen various models stacked in other locations and they are too high for me. I can see into the dryer but not reach the buttons. Suggest you mock up the layout on a wall with painters tape, measure where the doors and controls would be and mark them (with tape) and see how high/low they would be.