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Post by Ally on Nov 18, 2012 14:05:03 GMT -5
Several years ago I set up a shelf system in my laundry room. The shelves held baskets that dirty laundry would be sorted in according color. The system worked fairly well for a number of years, but eventually as my my house fell into squalor, so did the system. (My shelves were wall mounted and had to be removed to replace my washing machine. and I never put the shelves back up.) I just saw a system that reminds me of that system, but I believe the user uses it for sorting clean laundry. I thought I'd share it here. Some of the people who left comments said that the system could be used for toy storage and other things as well. Someone suggested a curtain over the front... ana-white.com/2010/11/laundry-basket-dresserIt makes me want to get my system set up again and in use. |
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Post by messyneatfreak on Nov 18, 2012 14:23:16 GMT -5
This is a great idea!
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Post by crazycatlady on Nov 18, 2012 15:20:15 GMT -5
DH made me a rack that holds 4 of the tall laundry baskets. They are at an angle, with the top higher than the bottom. I sort dirty clothes into them. Towels, jeans, lights, darks. It has been a really big help both in keeping the laundry sorted so it doesn't look like such a mess, and so that I can see at a glance which load to wash first.
I do like the idea of a shelf of baskets to stash clean laundry in, too. Or to sort stuff to sort while cleaning.
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Post by Ally on Nov 18, 2012 18:37:26 GMT -5
Another thing I've used: www.rubbermaid.com/Category/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?Prod_ID=RP091361These worked well too. I used to have a stack of 3... but now they are filled with junk, under piles of stuff. They aren't even in the laundry room. One downside of these, compared with the previous method, is that you can't just remove the lowest basket without moving the ones on top first. If I remember correctly. I think you could reach in to pull stuff out without moving the baskets though. One problem I had with laundry is that I would sort clean laundry into baskets, and then take it to the rooms of the owners, and ask them to put the clothes away. I never got the type of cooperation that I wanted. Clothes stayed in the baskets, if I took that clothes out of the basket, and put them, on the bed, they'ed eventually make it back in with the dirty clothes or on the floor w/o ever being worn. This is when I was working full time nights and it is also when I fell deep into squalor, because I just couldn't keep up with everything. There were several different reasons that I didn't have family members do their own laundry. One was that we have a low flow well, so we need to conserve water. |
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Post by Freedom on Nov 18, 2012 18:47:24 GMT -5
Ooooo, me want!
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Post by ellen on Nov 18, 2012 20:46:28 GMT -5
What a great idea and space saver! Thanks!!
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Post by RoadRunner on Nov 18, 2012 23:07:43 GMT -5
Thanks so much for sharing. I have been thinking of the same concept in my utilityroom. Unfortunately my idea is a little more complex and financially is not feasible at this time. This is a great solution and looks simple and clean. Like Like Like. Putting this idea on my black Friday shopping list.
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Post by eagle on Nov 19, 2012 15:45:24 GMT -5
I do my laundry sorting in the hamper. We use a 3-section laundry hamper that looks a bit like this one. This is our second-generation compartmentalized laundry hamper. I prefer it to our first one, because this one has a fold-over cover to help keep odors down.  Our first generation 3-compartment laundry hamper looked exactly like this one:  We even have a travel laundry hamper that has 3-compartments, which is great for when Hubby & I travel together It has coils or wire inside the edges & folds up into a small package for packing.  The problem of these types of laundry hampers, is space, of course. They have a pretty big foot print. In our last house, the master bathroom closet was spacious & the hamper fit in there. In this house, though, we have put the laundry hamper into the master closet as the master bathroom didn't really have enough space for it, but the closet does. Which is why I switched to the kind with a cover. Besides the cover, I do spray the inside with lysol periodically to keep it from smelling like dirty socks.  And for traveling, sometimes the 3-compartment hamper is just too large, too. It really depends on where we are staying and how much room there is availble for such things. I have a 0ne-compartment hamper to use when I travel alone or if there just isn't room (or the need) for the larger one. |
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