Essential in a laundry room

There are many things you can add to your bathroom.

Maintaining order in a house is not an easy task. The lack of storage and own spaces to carry out this or that task can contribute to creating a chaotic environment. Surely more than once you have wished to have a laundry room like the ones usually shown in decoration programs. Having one would be easier to organize your laundry, don't you agree?

A laundry room is more than a space in which to place the washer and dryer. You can organize in this space dirty clothes, normally distributed in different bathrooms, place the ironing board and even enable a small sink to deal with the most difficult stains.

The kitchens are getting smaller and smaller and we rarely have space for both the washing machine and the dryer in it; which forces us to do without one of them or place them in other rooms. Having a room for the washing machine avoids this and many other problems that arise from washing and ironing.

You can have a very well designed bathroom

There are six essential elements in a laundry room. Elements that do not require a large space if we know how to distribute them properly. As important as the space, design it with head so as not to have to derive problems to other rooms and thus contribute to the general order.

Washer and dryer

We can place them in a column so that they take up less space, or in parallel to create a work surface on them. In the latter case, many choose to raise them slightly, to make them more comfortable to use, using the lower space as storage. It may or may not be practical, depending on what space you have available, how it is laid out and what your priorities are.

Decorate the bathroom to your liking

Do i need a tumble dryer? It's a question you probably ask yourself, we've asked ourselves it too! In places with hot climates, where most of the year clothes are dried outside the home, it is a dispensable item. On the other hand, in places with cold and humid climates, where in winter it can be very heavy to dry clothes even indoors, it becomes a great ally. Of course, you will not be aware that you need it until you have it.

Cabinets

It never hurts to have extra storage space. And this is a room that you can use to complement the lack of space in other rooms in the house. How? Combining both closed and open storage solutions to store everything from white clothes to cleaning products.

Ideally, as long as you have space, is to allocate a closet exclusively for storing white clothes: towels, sheets, rags ... In addition, it is very useful to leave the necessary space under the counter to accommodate the baskets of dirty clothes. And think that you will also need a bar and some shelves to hang and order what you are going to iron or have ironed and folded, before taking it to the corresponding room.

There are essential elements for your bathroom

Baskets for dirty clothes

Having a laundry room does not make sense to accumulate dirty clothes in other rooms of the house. If everyone gets used to putting dirty clothes in the baskets; you will save yourself walking from room to room picking up the laundry and you will also avoid bad smells and dampness in those rooms.

How many laundry baskets do you need? The appropriate number will depend both on how many people you live at home and how often you put the washing machine or the amount of clothes you need to wash weekly. The usual thing is to have two baskets, one for white clothes and another for general. But if there are small children at home, providing them with their own basket can be a good strategy to educate them to take responsibility for their clothes.

Ironing board or ironing surface

Having the dryer and the ironing board in the same space will save you a lot of headaches. Today there are also folding and removable mechanisms very convenient that allow you to "hide" the ironing boards in the cabinets or to attach them to the wall, so that they do not get in the way while they are not being used.

Also, if you have arranged a washer and dryer in parallel you can use the surface on these as an ironing board, protecting it previously. This same surface will be used later to fold the clothes before taking them to the closet.

The bathroom has to be nice

Sink

A sink is always useful both to treat stubborn stains as to clean shoes. In addition, there are many of us who still have some of those garments that cannot be machine washed in the closet.

If you have the possibility of incorporating one into your laundry room make sure this is deep. It can be very useful to soak kitchen rags in bleach and avoid a lot of splashing when cleaning beach towels. Sometimes it is more important to look for this feature in the sink than to make it more or less large.

Clothes line

Although we have a washing machine and dryer, there are clothes that we may want to wash by hand and hang with some water or simply air dry. A small one will suffice for such purposes. You can use a classic clothesline or, to save space, install a ceiling or wall with a pulley system.

Place it near the laundry room window so your clothes can air dry, and bet on wooden clotheslines and clothespins that leave few marks on your clothes. You will thus reduce the time spent on ironing and isn't that something we all want?

The lavatory room can be large or small

There are few essential items in the laundry room, yet it can be difficult to have them all in one room. If it is necessary to give up one, you will have to be the one who reviews priorities and choose which one to leave out.

What you should never give up in a laundry room is good ventilation. Maintaining good ventilation will be key to make it enjoyable and healthy to work on. Keep in mind that as it happens in the bathroom or in the kitchen, here too moisture will tend to build up. Not only because you will use it to dry your clothes; also because wet clothes will accumulate in the laundry baskets, even if one tries to avoid them.

Now, you already have all the information you need to create your own laundry room. You only need to have an appropriate site for it, do you have it?


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