Home Creative Ideas

If you look around your home, you probably see lots of clothes. Am I right? You’ve got clothes in closets, you’ve got clothes in piles, meaning to put them away and not having time, eventually just pulling them out of the pile and wearing them. And then you’ve got clothes in laundry baskets. You might even have rumpled clothes in the dryer or (heaven forbid!) the washer. If it’s the former, the clothes are only rumpled. If it’s the latter, they’re probably rumpled and smelly and (potentially) mildew-y. Sigh! Somewhere in this Mt. Vesuvius of laundry, dirty, clean, or otherwise, is your home.

And I’m guessing that if you have a laundry room, you keep the door closed, as there are multiple Mt. Vesuvius piling up in there. If you don’t have a laundry room but have a laundry closet with room for the washer, dryer, and some shelves, I’m betting you haven’t seen the top of your dryer for weeks or even months. It’s covered in rumpled clothes and towels, right?

Why I wrote the "clothes adventures" above? Because if you need organize your home, the laundry area must be the first target. And here’s why: if you get your laundry room cleaned and organized, you’ll be much more apt to actually DO the laundry that plagues you and helps your home to be disorganized. And because you won’t want to undo the work you’ve done in the laundry room, you’re more likely to fold the laundry when it’s done, and put it away. There’s something that’s a breath of fresh air about a straightened laundry room—sort of like when you walk in to a closet where everything is hanging neatly.