Laundry cart for folding/ironing
GaryFx
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Comments (3)I'm going with the Better Life Styles fold-out board. Very different concept from the others. Give me a week or so and I'll have it installed and can give some feedback. The Amazon reviews for this item are pretty good among those who followed the directions and installed it properly. The only negative was that people didn't like the vanity cover. I could care less about the cover. Here is a link that might be useful: fold out ironing board...See MoreFolding Ironing Board set in a drawer?
Comments (3)Thanks for your kind words. Sadly my laundry room is not so pretty. That's why I have this ironing board in my kitchen!! It's very handy....See Morehelp me design my laundry closet please!
Comments (8)hi mara! Unfortunately, I think laundry in the basement is the only option for this house unless we want to give up one of the second floor bedrooms (which I don't think makes sense and would entail WAY more intrusive construction than we want). I agree that it's not ideal, but it is what it is. I sketched out a couple of ideas for the basement space...would you mind taking a look? Here is the current basement overall. The door on the right by the toilet leads to the new part of the basement under our kitchen addition. That space is already finished and is what I'm calling potential guest room/man cave. It has outside egress through a pair of "Dorothy doors". So the way it is now you come down stairs from the breakfast room into an unfinished basement with a cement floor, low ductwork and rubble stone walls and wind your way past open laundry, furnace, a non-functioning toilet in a tiny wood enclosure to reach the nice finished space. It's a pretty odd setup. The black dots in the sketch are steel support beams. We had an HVAC guy out yesterday who can fix most of the ducting issues. Our thought is to drywall the whole left section of the basement, adding lots of lighting and tile or pergo floors. This will give us a 12' by 24' rec room (we currently have a smallish living room and no family room upstairs, so I think this space will be important to future buyers). The plan is to use the upper right quadrant of the space for the utility functions of the basement: laundry, bathroom, furnace room. Plumbing and gas lines are already there, so I think this makes sense. It also has to serve as the hallway to the new portion of the basement. My husband's beloved workshop would get drywall and a door, but would otherwise be untouched. Here is the idea that I think I like best so far. A stacking washer and dryer and the laundry sink would be behind double pocket doors. The pocket doors would open all the way and stow in the wall by the shower. There would be a cabinet with storage below and space to fold laundry just opposite the laundry. There could be an upper cabinet or open shelves above. Access to the storage closet (which will have pretty low headroom due to ducting) would be from the rec room. Here is the other idea that I'm also considering. The stacked washer/dryer and sink would be behind double doors that swing open on heavy-duty hinges. On the inside of the left door, I could hang my iron and ironing board. On the inside of the right door would be a fold-down table. The right door would open all the way against the wall backing up to the shower and the table (I think it could be about 3' by 2') would unfold into the hallway space. In this plan, the access to the storage closet would be across from the laundry. If I wanted to keep the washer and dryer side-by-side and still have a sink, I'd have to put the sink where the shower is in the sketches above. I think it makes more sense to stack machines, keep to a smaller laundry footprint, and have a full bath with shower. So what do you think? Are either of these pretty decent substitutes for a laundry room? Thanks so much for taking the time to look and to make it through all of my rambling!...See MoreThe laundry and ironing never ends
Comments (11)No quick way with that. It's sloooow. But here's the thing with duvets. If you use a top sheet sheet folded over the duvet -- essentially use the duvet like a blanket -- then the sheet can be washed and ironed but the duvet can simply be shaken out and washed say, every other week. Because it's no different than a bedspread and doesn't get direct use. That's with no pets nestling on the duvet, no shoes, no sitting/lounging directly on it. Otherwise, it might be easier to use a blanket with a sheet over and under than iron the duvet IYKWIM...See Moreenduring
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