I'm so excited to be back on iHeart Organizing! This time around I decided that our catch all of a laundry room needed an overhaul!
We recently added some special touches to our teeny tiny laundry room, a counter on top of our front loading machines, and a bar for hanging wet laundry.
Now it was time to get down to the details. First I added a tray {from Ikea}. Next I decanted our detergent into some old milk bottles. You can still buy milk in glass bottles, and they are way less expensive than other glass container, plus you get a bunch of free milk!! ;)
I used another container for vinegar {we use vinegar as a natural fabric softener}. I added a spray bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide. We've always used Hydrogen Peroxide as a stain remover and it works really well.
And every laundry room needs a piggy bank. I have no idea why but husbands tend to carry tons of change, our last piggy bank full bought me a new pair of heels for New Years Eve! ;)
Next I moved on to organizing our one and only laundry cabinet. First I added a pocket from Martha Stewart's line at Staples. I keep the manuals for our washer and dryer inside, and in front I keep a stain removal chart {found here}.
On to the cabinet itself. I pared it down to the bare necessities, some borax, washing soda, our hardwood floor cleaner, some bar mops, a couple of baskets for the ugly {things like shoe polish, suede cleaner, etc}. Of course, the iron!
Pretty simple, but very functional. I LOVE an organized laundry room! And somehow knowing where the washing machine manual is, makes me feel like I have my life together and I'm a real live grown-up. ;) haha
And because we all love bullet points so much, to organize our laundry room we:
- Used pretty bottles for detergent and fabric softener
- A spray bottle for stain remover
- A tray to help corral counter clutter, and help catch any detergent run off
- An Adorable piggy bank
- A clear pocket for manuals and stain removal charts
- Some baskets to contain "The Ugly"
- and last but definitely not least . . . a big de-cluttering session! I made sure that there was nothing in the little laundry cabinet that shouldn't be there!
"I�m Ashli from Mini Manor Blog. I live in Big Beautiful British Columbia with my Husband Lee and our 5 lb yorkie Max. I have an organizers heart, I am a bin-aholic, and I�ve never met a wicker basket I didn�t love. During the summer I can be found lounging in the garden or at the gym . . . one of those was a lie. And in the last 5 years I�ve made more then 2000 cupcakes. I want to bake, eat and organize. Hand me some eggs, flour and an unorganized kitchen, that�s my idea of a great weekend, okay go ahead throw Ryan Gosling in there too."
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