The laundry has to be one of the smallest rooms in the home. It’s one of the most used rooms, the hardest working, with lots of different functions and requirements and needs lots of storage for plenty of awkward shaped bottles and items.

Folding our laundry is a thankless and never ending task, while the room that houses them becomes a combination laundry and utility room that can be easily strewn with dirty clothes and laundered ones – and anything else awkward to hide there.

It’s easy to close the doors on your laundry and toss it all into the too-hard basket, but a messy disorganised laundry messes with your energy. The repetitiveness of laundry means chaos easily and swiftly accumulates in the hardest working room of the house. With the washer and dryer conveniently offering flat surfaces and the basin an ideal dumping place, it’s too tempting to stack things on and in them.

A chaotic laundry leads to
❌ being surrounded by dirty clothes which creates health issues and your clothes losing their wear
❌ making laundering your clothes more difficult

Laundry – the real never ending story

The biggest problem with laundry is the lack of storage space. The laundry also becomes the free-for-all for general cleaning and storage. It’s great if the space and storage is available, but not every home has an expansive room with wall-to-wall bench space and all the storage in the world. Apartments and small homes may be reduced to the European laundry of a cupboard, bi-folds or doors that open into the wall cavity. European laundries can also be located in the kitchen, hallway, bathroom or an alcove under the stairs.

Laundry baskets, ironing boards, the iron, laundry liquid bottles of detergents, fabric softener, stain remover, that expensive wool wash mingle easily with sponges, chux, drying racks, mop and bucket and broom and dustpan and brush. Add piles of mismatched socks and a mish-mash of clothes, and you’re in clutter central.

Keeping our laundry area – whether ample or snug – clear of laundry clutter will make the repetition of wash rinse and repeat easier to cope with. Laundering our clothes is difficult enough as it is. An efficient room encourages efficient laundry so the repetitive task becomes less of a chore.

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