Tidying Up and Organizing Your Laundry Space

The laundry room is one of those spaces you would like to a)open the door, b) throw stuff in, c) close the door on, d) and hopefully have the laundry show up clean. But in reality it’s a place that is well needed in the home for clean clothes.

Women of the past did not call laundry day, “Blue Monday”, for nothing. The drudgery of laundry is well known, documented, and goes back to the beginning of time.

In the late 19th and early 20th century homemaking experts discovered that organizing a room in the manner in which activities happened helped tremendously in reducing the time spent in chores and also the relative ease with which they were accomplished.

There is no better place to get things under control than in the laundry room.

Whether your washer and dryer are behind sliding doors in the hallway, or your have a small room dedicated to laundry. This area where the Blue Monday details are dealt with makes things much easier if you organize your laundry space.

Start with the washer and dryer. Regardless of if you have front or top loading sometimes you can find prime laundry room real estate between the two of these machines. While you can purchase little organizers that fit right between. I tend to use this space to prop my dryer’s sweater rack and also my air drying rack until needed.

On top of your washers is another place for organizing. Alternatively if you can keep this space clean it’s a great area to fold clothes on. I have front loading machines on top of drawer organizers so this space is too high for me to fold clothes on. But if yours comes to waist height it’s a good place to accomplish the task.

Is your laundry room behind closed doors? If so the door to the room itself is a great place to attach an over the door organizer and get some of those bulky cleaning products and mops and such out of the way.

Attach a shelf above the washer and dryer for more above head storage. Don’t want to put holes in the wall? I’ve been a renter and I know how that is. There are also shelves that can attach to your washer and dryer allowing for more storage without breaking into the drywall.

If your family is in charge of sorting their own laundry have 3 baskets in the laundry room for the dumping of clothes. Darks, Whites, and Lights.

Keep your laundry room or space clean. Dust, vacuum and wipe often. This is supposed to be an area that clean clothes come out of.

I have found that organizing the laundry room or area make doing the ‘wash’ that much less, well, irritating.