Laundry Room Makeover

[Jeremy Scuteri]

My father in law helped me with a laundry room makeover that my wife has been requesting for a few years now. We built a platform to lift the front loading washer and dryer up off the ground and installed some cabinets that were purchased at Lowes.


Here is the laundry room before we moved in to the house (washer and dryer were taken by previous owners). We didn't take any "before pictures" and this was all I could find.

A wire rack in the back kept all the laundry supplies out in the open which my wife didn't like.

Pedestal framed out and starting to put some cabinets in.

Better view of the pedestal (white item is just a trash can)

Cabinets put in place. Stock cabinets filled the entire width without any filler strips.

Washer and dryer put back in place.

Starting to trim out the pedestal. This is the side, the trim piece isn't nailed in place yet.

Some wrapping for the leg posts.

Pedestal trimmed out and cabinet hardware installed.

 

[Henry W]

Nicely done - I'd call that a success!

 

[Charlie]

Looks great. Space is well utilized.

 

[Graywolf]

It turn out great!

 

[Raymond]

Great job, Jeremy! Of course, the wife's praise is all you really need.

 

[Oka]

Much Better-that looks great ! , the only thing you forgot to do was to match the lame 1/4 round install at the floor to wall connection like the previous owner did ...........

 

[Canuck]

Very nicely executed!!!

 

[drw]

Terrific job! Since Getting the washer/dryer off the ground certainly looks like it will make them much more accessible.

 

[Mark Johnson]

Good job on that. I suspect you won some new tool brownie points for that conversion.

 

[jcz]

Welp, my honey doo list just got longer. Thanks lot!

I showed this to my wife because I’ve wanted to do something like this since we built our home.

 

[junquecol]

SHARPE!

 

[kserdar]

I don't see a dryer vent hookup in any of your pictures.
How are you exhausting the dryer?

 

[Jim M.]

Very nice!

 

[Jeremy Scuteri]

Terrific job! Since Getting the washer/dryer off the ground certainly looks like it will make them much more accessible.

Much better, no more kneeling on the ground to load/unload.

 

[Jeremy Scuteri]

I don't see a dryer vent hookup in any of your pictures.
How are you exhausting the dryer?

You mean you can't just exhaust right into the room? ;-)

It isn't shown in the pics. The 30A dryer receptacle and the dryer vent are below the pedestal. I had to drill a hole in the pedestal floor to route power and the dryer ducting.

 

[kserdar]

You mean you can't just exhaust right into the room? ;-)

It isn't shown in the pics. The 30A dryer receptacle and the dryer vent are below the pedestal. I had to drill a hole in the pedestal floor to route power and the dryer ducting.

Looking at your pictures - you hung new drywall. Why didn't you move the vent and receptacle while the wall was open?

Note - the contractor building my house (4 years ago) had to move my vent up 18" because he forgot to allow for the pedestal.

 

[Jeremy Scuteri]

Looking at your pictures - you hung new drywall. Why didn't you move the vent and receptacle while the wall was open?

Note - the contractor building my house (4 years ago) had to move my vent up 18" because he forgot to allow for the pedestal.

No drywall work for this project. I suspect you are seeing the holes in the drywall from the wall anchors that held the old wire shelves in place. Those holes weren't even patched, just strategically covered up with new cabinets.

 

[waitup]

Very nice. I like how you trimmed out the pedestal to tie it in with the doors.

 

[LeftyTom]

Nicely done!