![]() ![]() Large round wicker basket (on clothes rack’s shelf).Free-standing wooden clothes rack with shelf.Moving left to right around the space, let’s list what we see: Let’s use this same photo as a “practice” session. So, with that in mind, you mentally “step” into the room, look to your left and start describing what you see. So how do you start a household inventory project in your laundry room or any room? If you’ve suffered a catastrophic loss, it takes a bit of visualization. Part of completing a household inventory list for an insurance claim involves providing the “cost new” of the item listed as well as its “replacement cost.” By the way, I provide links to all these items to make your life easier. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. I encourage you to pin this post and the others to your Pinterest boards for easy reference!ĭisclosure: This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. My hope is that readers will find these lists useful and/or share them with people they know who have had a catastrophic loss. If you missed the story about the loss of our home in the 2007 Southern California wildfires, here’s a link to the first of the series: Any Way the Wind Blows. In fact, it was nine long, hard months of working nights and weekends, adding things to my endless Excel spreadsheet. I do this because we lost our home in a fire and recreating a home inventory list for our homeowner’s insurance claim was a difficult process. The laundry room in the photo above has a great window! Large and full of bright light, it is the polar opposite of my dark, narrow laundry room! It even has houseplants! If I put houseplants in my laundry room, even by the window, they would not fare well.įor those new visitors to my blog, welcome! I create lists of 42 for household inventory purposes and there are now 55 of these lists on this blog. The clothes and things we drip dry, we hang in our garage because we don’t have space in our decent-sized laundry room. I’d put some kind of rod up (probably inside the closet I don’t have) so that clothes could drip dry.Needless to say, we don’t put coats, etc. Instead, we have to store our long-handled cleaning supplies in our hall closet. I’d add a closet inside the laundry room to store our long-handled cleaning implements, like our vacuum cleaner, broom, mop, ironing board, etc.So, the room tends to be dark, even with overhead lighting! It makes it hard to see the spots when pre-treating laundry! And, it’s on the north side of the house blocked from the sun by the garage on the west side of our house. The window in our current laundry is small. Since he does the laundry in our family (yep I’m lucky like that!), I’d make sure the laundry room was a good size so that he could handle it easier. It’s long and narrow and while Charlie can get in it with his scooter, he can’t turn around. What would I change in my laundry room? Here’s a list: ![]() Clean up my life! We won't send you spam. If you fill this in, you will be marked as a spammer. Your laundry room just might become your favorite place to hang out.We use this field to detect spam bots. Whether it's clever organization, a favorite pattern, or genius cabinets, these inspiring laundry room decor ideas will bring your days of procrastinating until your hamper is overflowing to an end. A floating shelves can hold practical baskets, decor you love, and other personal touches. "Just like any other space in your home, good bones create a great backdrop for styling," says Jess Weeth, founder and principal designer at Weeth Home. To make yours less dread inducing, designers recommend setting it up to with decor ideas that draw you in. But many laundry rooms don't help: They can be dark, airless, cluttered spaces, no matter what size they are. Not everyone finds laundry to be naturally therapeutic. Change your laundry room decor, and you can change everything. It can even drain your capacity to enjoy being in your home. Running back and forth to the washer and dryer, looking for the sock that got away, folding the heaping pile of clothes-it can consume your entire day. If spending a Saturday morning in your laundry room sounds like your worst nightmare, I'm right there with you. ![]()
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