Love love love this topic. Your kitchens are amazing. Looking for pics of stainless; particularly of stainless with white cabinets and beadboard backsplash... Have you ever seen this combo? Any ideas would be awesome. Again truly amazing kitchens!!

I understand unusual ideas. I had a few myself, and 85% have worked out (so far!). You might go directly to the Plumbing Forum on some of these technical issues. It is by no means as active as Kitchen Forum, but you never know. On another point, scrappy25 got me thinking -- WOULD a simple pot filler meet your needs? Perhaps with a pretty bowl underneath for spillage? You could just lift that up, and tip it into the sink. Running the plumping up for a wall-mounted pot filler would be easy. I can't imagine you'd violate code; if you can put one over an electric range, why not a DW? Good luck.

@ greendesigns. My countertop is extremely light and I can simply pull it forward to access the hoses or to pull the washer/dryer out. The basket that sits in the middle of the countertop actually blocks the water valves. Because the table that I used for the legs is skinnier than the table that I used for the top (24 v. 30), there is room for the dryer vent to run behind the machines and to the vent without hitting the "legs". One of my kids always unloads his backpack and switches out his notebooks in the laundry room and before he used to always drop stuff in the crevices between and behind the machines, but no more!! @lasummers24 - Top is 30x60. Sides are ~24x40. I followed this blog to make the laundry room counter: https://helen.blog/2014/01/house-project-laundry-room-and-table/ Basically, the laundry room counter consists of an IKEA linnmon table top (I used white, but it comes in other colors - it is normally $39, but goes on sale for $29), two shorter IKEA linnmon table tops for the legs (I think these were $19/each), 4 L brackets to attach the "legs" to the top and 4 furniture glides put into the bottom of the legs as feet. The furniture glides gave me a bit more space between the tops of the washer/dryer and the counter top (some people suggested the machines needed room to breath). They also gave me some space between the floor and the legs so in case there is a water leak, the legs won't get instantly wet. My washer/dryer are not on pedestals. I am only 5'2", so if they were, I would not be able to use the countertop! Basket blocking the ugly water valves in the picture below. You can see here that the table I used for the legs is not as wide as the table top. This is great because it allows the dryer vent to pass by the legs to connect with the vent, but I did not like the look of the gap, so I placed the basket with dog leashes there to cover the hole and prevent things from falling through the crevice.

Whatever they sell at Costco and you can return it if it fails. My mom researched and bought one with good reviews at another store. It stopped working. She dug up her receipt and the manufacturer warranty had expired the week before. They were inflexible about honoring it since it was a few days past. They just do not make things like they used to. I might also pick a model by the convenience buttons that worked for how I use it such as add a minute or 30 seconds.