Loving The Laundry
Let me start by saying I don’t LOVE doing Laundry. In fact it is most definitely the one job I procrastinate the most about. But surely if my Laundry was more organised and a little prettier I would be more inclined to actually go in there? Just maybe?
Unfortunatley for most of us, laundries were designed by men who rarely frequent them. They are generally small, lacking natural light and completely unpractical. Our house is no exception. We have one teeny tiny window, no bench, it is a thoroughfare to the only downstairs toilet and smack bang in the middle of the wall is the laundry shoot.
But if I can’t go back to the drawing board (literally) I am determined to make the most of the space. We made a start last year.
Please do not look at the date of that post! It’s embarassing to realise how long it has taken me to get around to finishing it! The finishing was really a 3 part exercise.
1. Sort out the laundry cupboard where the lost and found go to be gathered together. This seems to be a tourist attraction for every toy part, lightbulb, shoe lace, thingamabob in the house. It desperatley needed to be sorted and stored in a better way.
I had these containers in my collection from my last trip to Howards Storage World. I sorted them into some simple categories, grouping like items together.
To help keep them sorted I created some self adhesive labels for the containers. I just created a label in a “Word” document and printed them out on A4 Self Adhesive Sheets (Officeworks). Then simply cut them out and attach!
This is the one and only Laundry Cupboard. It has a small shelf up high above the “Broom/Ironing Board/Hanging” area. I used a small shelf (Howards Storage World) so I could place the handled items “on top” of each other but still access them all easily. I have used this system in my pantry and it works brilliantly! I really want to hang that dustpan on the door!!!!
2. The Baskets on the shelves have been working brilliantly but needed labelling to keep it that way! What I love about this system is the placement of baskets. The kids are old enough now to feed the cat and get their own togs and towel and having these baskets down low helps them do just that! I created these labels, again in Microsoft Word, printed them on some card attached them to the baskets with some cute ribbon I have been saving.
- The Baskets Are Labelled!
3. Beautifying! We had a wall in the laundry that you look startight at as you walk in! I had bought some wall art off etsy a while ago but still hadn’t gotten around to printing, cutting and framing it!
Now I just need to hang them!
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