Organization Hacks for Your Laundry Room

Does your laundry room need a room lift? Organization tips and hacks from storing detergent, sorting the laundry supplies, and keeping a smooth flow in your laundry room.

If your laundry room is a small space of four walls in your beautiful home, you may need to be strategic in getting organized. 

A functional room for all your laundry needs makes a whole lot of difference when everything is in its proper place.

You do your laundry chore with ease, and every inch of laundry space is utilized for the function. 

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Let’s check out how these hacks can help with your simple organization for your laundry room.

Start with a blank slate.

Go ahead takedown all your decors, all current storage units, laundry supplies, and other extra trinkets from your laundry room.

Sort per category and immediately store away/rehome anything you aren’t planning to use. Get it done as you take items out of its spot.

You see a visionary outline of what you like to do with each space and corner when you have an empty shelf, wall, or storage.

Throw away expired items.

Do you still keep those hardened laundry powder? Or maybe the hardened laundry liquid softener inside the container?

Make a habit of checking the expiration dates and keeping your supplies updated. You can also get a laundry supply checklist (PDF download) from this cleaning post.

Cut the clutter now.

Clearing out of anything that doesn’t serve the room’s functional purpose needs to go.

It can be challenging to organize when you have so much stuff and clutter around that you move multiple times and barely use it. 

Say goodbye to them. Minimize what you bring in, even in decors. 

Clear out your laundry closet. Keep only the items that your family needs to maximize storage space. 

You don’t need 15 bath towels for a family of four. Same as 20-bed linens or sheets for a three-bedroom house. 

RELATED POST: Declutter First Before Organizing Your Home

Use bins and caddies for your laundry needs.

Practical laundry room solutions for storage:

• Glass jars for your powder detergent will look excellent and minimal yet still serve as a storage unit. Please don’t throw away the laundry scooper and reuse it with your detergent jars.
• Caddies for your cleaning supplies that you use to clean the laundry room. Store them in one place for easy grab and clean time.
• Wire bins or fabric bins, whichever you prefer – opt for what helps keep clutter out of sight or display organized items correctly. Don’t forget the under shelf basket wire for small laundry items.
• Simple wooden basket for your small essentials such as clothespins, scissors, a basic sewing kit, and cedar sticks. 
• Lint Bin, anyone? With a small laundry room, you may not have space to put a regular trash bin. You can purchase a designed lint bin (magnetic/hook on) to complement your laundry decor. Another option of reusing am empty laundry powder container for disposing of lint to save cost. Wrap an empty laundry box up with wrapping paper.

Tuck away the iron and ironing board behind the door. 

Storing the ironing board can be a challenge for a small laundry room for those who iron their clothes. 

If you wish to keep the laundry and laundry-related items in one room, opt for a hanging wire over the door to store your ironing board away.

When space is limited, you can opt for a small ironing board you can place on top of your washer or dryer. Then as you complete your ironing chores, you keep it inside the laundry closet. 

Do you sew? With this simple mini ironing board cover tutorial, you can easily make a cover for your small ironing board. It was a quick sewing project to do my blue mini ironing board cover shown below.

Bins for whites, light and dark clothing items.

Before it even hits the laundry washer, get your family’s dirty clothes sorted out already by placing bins in all bedrooms. Then, you can utilize an already split container for sorting your dirty laundry.

There are plenty of options for laundry bins if you prefer fabric, plastic, or other laundry sorter bins.

Shelvings that serve an organizing purpose.

Shelving units come in different designs, materials, sizes, and sturdiness.

For an airy-looking room but inexpensive laundry organization, wire shelves are your storage solutions. 

If your laundry room has built-in wire shelvings, you can cover them with liners or even thin wood planks. Or you can leave them as is. 

Open wood shelving in a laundry room can make the space stylish and functional using suitable quality materials.

Using easily stored laundry items for minimizing used space. 

• Foldable stool
• Collapsible laundry baskets for folding/sorting
• Foldable laundry hampers (mesh or fabric)
• Collapsible drying racks
• Slim rolling cart for laundry items

Use Your Walls

When floor space becomes a problem, check a wall where you can mount hooks or small cabinets. 

Hooks are great for storing items for dry clean, delicate bags, or even shoe bags. 

Mounted small cabinets such as bathroom cabinets can be another option for storing laundry supplies. 

Do it yourself wall cubbies; use small storage cube to be screwed on the walls as shelves. Then, you can paint them before installing them up to finish a coordinated laundry room look.

However, be sure to measure the wall area and the cabinet dimensions for easy installation. 

You don’t want to be drilling holes and finding out it doesn’t work out in the intended wall space.

Choose a laundry system that works for your family. 

Overwhelming laundry and the so-called tedious chore don’t have to be the worst homemaking task. 

The solution to that is streamlining your laundry process to fit your family’s needs and time. 

If you like to do laundry daily to cut the load, opt for this daily laundry task. If you want to reserve a day or two for laundry time, then do so.

Whatever works and keeps you from getting stressed out whenever laundry time comes, do what makes it simpler and organized. 

You can check out our family’s laundry system here. 

Simple Laundry Room Organization Tips

There you have my top 10 organization hacks for any laundry room, small or big it may be. You can work it out with these storage ideas and simple solutions for all your laundry needs.

You have lowered your stress level by organizing your laundry space, no matter the room’s square feet area. Creating a functional work area for one of the most unloved chores in the household makes you want to do your laundry with a smile on your face.

Streamlining your chores with a simplified process, whatever the tasks are, makes for a happy homemaker.

Are you ready to tackle and put your laundry room in order today? Please drop me a comment below, how you keep your laundry room organized and functional. Pin for later.