Laundry Room Organizers

By Karen Porter, Editor

EasyHomeOrganizing.com

Laundry room organizers will hold your tools, such as detergent, spot remover, bleach, even irons and ironing boards. Here are a few ideas for organizing your laundry room along with some of these ready-made laundry room organizers.

♦If you have a side-by-side washer and dryer, buy a slim cart with three shelves, on wheels, that fits between these two machines. This cart can hold detergent, fabric softener, bleach, stain removers and more. Put your least often used items on the bottom shelf and the cleaners you reach for frequently on the top shelf of this cart. Periodically wipe the plastic laundry caddy down with all-purpose spray cleaner and a paper towel (because it will accumulate dust and lint and typical laundry room grime).

♦Buy a portable clothes/garment rack that you place in arms-reach of your dryer. Hang your clothes directly after the dryer cycle ends and you'll have less wrinkles (which means less work ironing, if at all, later). This Rolling Garment Rack with shelves - Heavy duty sold by Stacks and Stacks is perfect. It's on casters so you can slide it closer when needed and further away when not in use. It has a hanging bar for garments and even a shoe rack on the bottom that's perfect for drying sneakers. That middle shelf adjusts too if you need to move it up or down.

♦Don't you hate running out of hangers when you're in the middle of hanging laundry from the dryer? Search too long and your clothes get wrinkled, even in a short time span. Solve that by keeping a few of these Hanger Organizers around your home. Keep one by the dryer or by your garment rack. Keep one in every clothes closet in your home. Have family members place hangers on these organizers each time they remove a piece of clothing from a hanger to wear. When one is full, take it to the laundry room and switch it with an empty one there. On laundry day, putting away clothes will be quicker when you have your hangers there ready to go.

♦Have you ever noticed that irons and iron boards can collect dust if not used frequently. That problem is easily solved by covering them with decorative cases. If the cases get dirty, you can clean them in the washing machine.

Ironing Board Cover & Iron Storage Case by Lillian Vernon