Love it or hate it, an organized laundry room makes doing the wash less onerous. Our breakdown of what you need and where it goes will get your space humming.
The tasks
Collecting
Place a hamper in each person's closet, or a laundry bag on the back of each bedroom door. For a small family, think about having just one central container.
Choose hampers that can double as easy-to-carry laundry baskets.
Put a container for dry clean-only items near the front door if it can be stored discreetly.
Sorting
Set up three containers – one for lights, one for darks, and one for delicates and hand-washables – near the washer. Container options include plastic tubs on casters, hampers or attractive baskets for under the bottom shelf of a floor-to-ceiling shelving unit, or labelled laundry bags that hang on the wall or on a unit.
Washing
Consider a standard washer and dryer; space-saving stacked units; or front-loading ones, above which you can install a convenient folding surface.
Use easy-to-reach shelves (or a locked cabinet if you have small children) for detergent and other frequently used items.
Post care-label instructions over the machine, along with stain removal charts.
Keep one or two small plastic tubs for handwashing.
On a shelving unit, stock clear jars for storing clothes pegs, loose change and special soaps; rags for mopping up spills; mesh bags for delicates; and a container for small bottles of stain removers and related tools.
6 Comments
These articles are very helpful, however you can not get to the 2nd page of any of them.
These articles are very helpful, however you can not get to the 2nd page of any of them.
I love all your ideas, the only thing I want to comment on is that most people I know do not stay in the laundry room to do the folding or ironing. This boring task goes so much faster if you can do it watching tv. So if you can't afford a tv for your laundry room, having the counter space and drop down ironing board are not that much of a necessity.
wish the picture reflected some of the ideas
what's the color in the picture
Love the idea's & I do stay in the laundry room to do my ironing, sowing & mending as well as much more. My laundry room is more of a multi-purpose room. However, after I built my last home & I thought I had remembered to add in everything in my laundry room I realized I still don't have adaquent room for hanging or laying out those clothing item's that don't do in the dryer ( whick is about 80% of our clothes). Any idea's?