Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

During the winter, if it’s common for you to use the fireplace, why not put that heat to good use? In addition to keeping you and your home warm, the fire can also dry and warm up your clothing.

The Robbins Toy Mini Clothes Drying Rack is a simple yet effective accessory to store in your laundry room. Drying your clothes by the fire will go quicker, and it will save you money on electricity.

This clothes drying rack is made of Eastern White Pine and birch dowels. This is a more compact unit, which measures 6.5” x 28”. This is perfect for kids too, so you can get them involved in conversing electricity and becoming responsible adults. When you’re all done drying your clothes, you can store this away out of sight.

Limited space in the laundry room can be a nightmare. It’s better when you have enough space for a full size washer and dryer as well as room to fold and iron. However, don’t fret if your laundry room isn’t perfect, because you can always find more compact washer and dryer designs.

The Whirlpool Electric Washer and Dryer Combo gives you the best of both worlds. This unit stacks the dryer on top of the washer so you can save space, and it can be used in smaller homes and apartments. You can even put it in a hall closet.

This white washer and dryer set features a durable exterior, compact design, five cycles, four temperature selections, automatic dry-miser, corrosion resistant interior and a high quality agitator.

Laundry baskets can take up a lot of space, and if you store dirty clothes in a hamper and only use the basket on laundry day, you don’t want it sitting out. There is a solution to this problem, so you can keep your laundry baskets out of sight.

The UnHampered makes laundry day a little easier, and you don’t have to see the unsightly basket during the week. The UnHampered collapses and can be stored in between your washer and dryer or under a bed. It folds down to 2” wide, and it has two sets of handles as well as a mesh side pocket.

This comes in handy when you have to wash your clothes in the basement or go to a laundromat.

A large part of your time in the laundry room is probably on stain removal. How do you get muddy grass stains out of your daughter’s soccer uniform? What do you do know that the coffee spill didn’t come out of your blouse during the first wash?

Instead of pre-treating stains to no end or running out of time to perform your clothing inspection, try Tide’s new Stain Release products, which come in either powder, a duo pack or liquid form. The Duo Pac includes the powder and liquid form all in one little square, so you can pop it in the wash and forget about spending time treating each little stain.

These in-wash boosters make stain removal easy and convenient, because you can throw in the Duo Pac and get on with your day. If your kids help with the laundry, you won’t have to worry about them forgetting to pre-treat.

Ironing boards are not attractive in any sense of the word, and even though you can change the ironing board pad to a patterned or more modern design, it doesn’t detract enough from the contraption. If ironing is a part of your daily activities, you definitely need one that is convenient and accessible.

The Rev-A-Shelf Fold-out Ironing Board is an alternative to those large, bulky ironing boards. You might have seen cabinet or wall fold-out boards, but this particular one folds out of a drawer. It can fit in a vanity drawer between cabinet sides from 14-1/4” to 21” wide, and mounting is easy with the fixed brackets.

In order to use this board, you simply open the drawer and the gravity lock hinges engage. The board will automatically unfold so you can begin ironing.

My dryer has a buzzer that lets me know it’s done whirling and churning, but it doesn’t actually tell me if my clothes are done. You’re probably in the same boat. You have to just stick your hand in there and feel around to see if things are still damp.

The Maytag Bravos dryer has an IntelliDry sensor that’s supposed to take the guesswork out of the laundry room. A digital countdown lets you know just how many minutes are left.

Other features include the ability to steam dry to reduce wrinkles, a custom refresh to remove odors from dry clothing, and an interior light (hey, it’s important to see what your clothes are doing in there).

The Maytag dryer costs about $1,000.

Keeping the laundry off of the floor and in the closets is a challenge when you have teens and even younger children. If you’re determined to prevent explosions of clothes, a monogrammed laundry bin is the best way to go.

These Dottie Contain-It Laundry Bins from Pottery Barn Teen will keep everyone’s clothing organized, and the bins are so adorable.

These bins are made from a lightweight canvas, which is durable and easy to carry around. There are also big fabric handles on the side so you can take it upstairs and downstairs with ease. When you’re finished using it, the bin collapses and can be stored underneath a bed or in the closet.

If you want to monogram it, the bin will be more personalized.

If your square footage is limited and you’re tired of tripping over your laundry hamper, you might try a more compact clothes-collecting system.

This hanging laundry bag is meant to drape a doorknob, a clothes bar, or a hook in the wall.

Though it doesn’t have a huge capacity (27″ x 16.25″ x 6″), it’s an ideal space-saving choice for a dorm room, kid’s bedroom, or small apartment or condo.

The laundry bag is made from durable canvas and has a zipper back for easy clothing removal. It’s easily portable, as well, so no need to tote your whole hamper to the laundry room. At $12, it’s inexpensive enough that you can buy one for everyone in the family.

Household Essentials Doorknob Hanging Cotton Canvas Laundry Bag

Front loading washers can be more energy efficient, so if you’re looking for a way to reduce your water and electricity bills, updating your old washer to a new one can be a worthy investment.

In addition, these types of washers can be stacked on top of each other, which will save space.

This LG WM2701HV is a 27” front-load washer with 4.5 cu. ft. capacity. It has several wash cycles to sanitize your clothes, brighten your whites, wash in cold water and wash bulk loads. It even has a child lock and stainless steel tub.

The graphite steel color is a great neutral for the laundry room, and the modern appearance will help to update your entire laundry or mud room.

During the winter, it’s just not an option to hang your clothes outside to dry. Plus, sometimes you just don’t have all of the time in the world to hang your clothes outside or inside for drying. With the Folding Electrical Clothes Hanger you can dry clothing, shoes and other accessories faster. In addition to using it at home, you can also take it with you when you’re traveling or on vacation.

Some of the basic features include: durability, quiet operation, temperature controlled setting, insulated and heat resistant frame and rust proof hanger exterior. Because the temperature of the hanger can’t get too hot, your items won’t get burned.

In order to use the hanger, you put one or more items on it as if you were hanging them. Then you plug the hanger into an outlet. It’s best to button or zip the garments so that the heat stays trapped and dries the clothing faster.