Hi there,
We’ll be four people from summer onwards and want to build a house soon. I’m currently thinking about laundry because the situation at home is really frustrating me.
At the moment, we have laundry baskets in the bedroom where we throw all the dirty clothes. I sort everything before washing. It looks very untidy and takes up a lot of space. And the laundry will only increase as the little one grows—clothes get bigger—and with the baby, there will be even more laundry.
In our own house, I’d like to handle this completely differently, but I’m not sure yet how.
A laundry chute is definitely not an option. Ideally, I want to place the washer and dryer in the children’s bathroom on the upper floor. That way, I won’t have to carry clean laundry up from the basement. Now I’m wondering where and how I can best collect the laundry without having open baskets lying around.
How do you handle this?
We’ll be four people from summer onwards and want to build a house soon. I’m currently thinking about laundry because the situation at home is really frustrating me.
At the moment, we have laundry baskets in the bedroom where we throw all the dirty clothes. I sort everything before washing. It looks very untidy and takes up a lot of space. And the laundry will only increase as the little one grows—clothes get bigger—and with the baby, there will be even more laundry.
In our own house, I’d like to handle this completely differently, but I’m not sure yet how.
A laundry chute is definitely not an option. Ideally, I want to place the washer and dryer in the children’s bathroom on the upper floor. That way, I won’t have to carry clean laundry up from the basement. Now I’m wondering where and how I can best collect the laundry without having open baskets lying around.
How do you handle this?
In the new house, it will be like this:
A second utility room on the first floor for laundry logistics. There will be two "Lillangen" laundry cabinets from IKEA, a washing machine, and space for a drying rack.
The laundry cabinets will be placed right next to the utility room door, meaning the door will be left slightly open, laundry stuffed into the cabinet, then the door closed again before continuing to the bathroom or bedroom.
A second utility room on the first floor for laundry logistics. There will be two "Lillangen" laundry cabinets from IKEA, a washing machine, and space for a drying rack.
The laundry cabinets will be placed right next to the utility room door, meaning the door will be left slightly open, laundry stuffed into the cabinet, then the door closed again before continuing to the bathroom or bedroom.
We have a small utility room for washing and drying on the upper floor – laundry is still collected there (small, inexpensive laundry bags, also from Ikea). Before moving into the new house, we used to gather everything in a basket in the bedroom; most likely, it will now be a stylish basket in the bathroom.
I have been using a dryer since year x – still doing so now... but I want to install a foldable wall-mounted drying rack for some items (also Ikea?). In good weather, I might take the small laundry downstairs to dry, but when does that actually happen?! Towels, cotton underwear, etc., always come out nice, soft, and better in the dryer than air drying – in my opinion... and I’m certainly not a slave to my laundry and never will be.
I have been using a dryer since year x – still doing so now... but I want to install a foldable wall-mounted drying rack for some items (also Ikea?). In good weather, I might take the small laundry downstairs to dry, but when does that actually happen?! Towels, cotton underwear, etc., always come out nice, soft, and better in the dryer than air drying – in my opinion... and I’m certainly not a slave to my laundry and never will be.
Hello.
In our current rental house, we throw the dirty laundry straight down the stairs to the basement.
There, it is sorted into large boxes in the utility room and washed once a load is ready.
The laundry dries on a drying rack in the same room (I admit I’m too lazy to carry the rack and laundry upstairs) and then, if needed, it goes briefly in the dryer to reduce wrinkles and make the clothes nice and fluffy.
The new house doesn’t have a basement. The utility room is on the ground floor with direct access to the back garden. A rotary clothesline will be placed somewhere there. The laundry is sent down through a laundry chute and then sorted again into baskets or similar containers.
Why don’t you keep the laundry area separate from the bathrooms? That way it’s less of a problem if it gets a bit untidy in there.
Best regards,
milkie
In our current rental house, we throw the dirty laundry straight down the stairs to the basement.
There, it is sorted into large boxes in the utility room and washed once a load is ready.
The laundry dries on a drying rack in the same room (I admit I’m too lazy to carry the rack and laundry upstairs) and then, if needed, it goes briefly in the dryer to reduce wrinkles and make the clothes nice and fluffy.
The new house doesn’t have a basement. The utility room is on the ground floor with direct access to the back garden. A rotary clothesline will be placed somewhere there. The laundry is sent down through a laundry chute and then sorted again into baskets or similar containers.
Why don’t you keep the laundry area separate from the bathrooms? That way it’s less of a problem if it gets a bit untidy in there.
Best regards,
milkie
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