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?
Masipulami16 Mar 2014 15:23We are having a laundry chute installed in the bathroom. This way, the dirty laundry will go directly downstairs to the utility room.
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DerBjoern19 Mar 2014 08:37We have a laundry chute that delivers the laundry directly into a basket on top of the washing machine. If carrying the laundry upstairs ever becomes a hassle, we can also install the washer and dryer in a storage room on the upper floor.
Currently, we collect dirty laundry in the bathroom of our rental apartment in a metal bin. This has actually worked well. Laundry is dried either on a drying rack on the balcony or, in bad weather, on a rack inside. Bed linens, towels, etc., are dried in the tumble dryer.
In the future, we will likely collect laundry in the utility room. I imagine the bin will move along as well. We’ll see if my wife has different ideas.
Because of the hillside location, we are building "in reverse" (bedrooms, bathroom, and utility room downstairs – living areas upstairs with access to the terrace).
We will install two rotary clotheslines or drying racks: one in the garden and one under the carport (about 12 m long (39 feet)). The rotary clothesline(s) will be used depending on needs and weather.
Otherwise, we still need to buy a new dryer. The current one is a vented dryer and won’t be coming with us – there’s nowhere to vent the air. So, we need to get a condenser dryer.
Because we have a ventilation system, it is also possible to dry laundry indoors on a rack. The ventilation system removes the moist air.
In the future, we will likely collect laundry in the utility room. I imagine the bin will move along as well. We’ll see if my wife has different ideas.
Because of the hillside location, we are building "in reverse" (bedrooms, bathroom, and utility room downstairs – living areas upstairs with access to the terrace).
We will install two rotary clotheslines or drying racks: one in the garden and one under the carport (about 12 m long (39 feet)). The rotary clothesline(s) will be used depending on needs and weather.
Otherwise, we still need to buy a new dryer. The current one is a vented dryer and won’t be coming with us – there’s nowhere to vent the air. So, we need to get a condenser dryer.
Because we have a ventilation system, it is also possible to dry laundry indoors on a rack. The ventilation system removes the moist air.
In my parents’ house, there was a laundry chute. It was brilliant! We kids (in the attic) would toss our dirty laundry down, and it ended up in the basement laundry room, right in an old wicker basket. Now I have children myself, and we live in an apartment. I miss the laundry chute every day. In the kids’ rooms, there are laundry baskets, but I’m probably the only one who uses them. I think it’s simply more fun to throw the laundry down a chute than into a basket. The sound was also amusing – “whoosh.”
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