Laundry Woes

This is what my laundry room has looked like since I moved in. It has been driving me crazy, and after a lengthily and enlightening conversation with my cousin Tara, I decided to do something about it! Even though we are just renting, investing a little time and money is a good thing. I mean we know we'll be here for another 2.33 years. That's a lot of time spent in a horrible looking/functioning laundry room. Oh and you can see from our washer and dryer that "it don't matter of you're black or white!"

So, I assembled and installed my first cabinet. Hung shelves. Moved and added more hanging rods. I also tried to utilize the "1990's basket space" by adding nice sized Target baskets. And then filling them with clothes. All of Owen and Hannah's clean clothes now stay in the laundry room. No more dragging clothes up and down from their rooms. They get dressed in the laundry room and put dirty clothes right into the hampers. As clothes come out of the dryer, they go in the baskets, or hung up, and viola! I'm done. The laundry room is right next to the mud room so socks are right next to shoes. It's wonderful. I have saved so much time with this little adjustment. And I think my kids could even have less clothes, because it is so much easier to turn things over. No tramping through the whole house gathering up dirty clothes once a week.

I guess I need to take another shot to see the baskets. I send these to MaryAnn, whose house this is. I was sort of trying to hide the fact that a hammer hit one of the lower shelves to make room for the dirty clothes hampers. Oh and the view out the window is nice, I've seen multiple sunsets since I moved the hanging rod out of the way. Who hangs a rod right in front of the window!