Laundry Storage and Organizers – Make Laundry Simple

Unless you’re fortunate enough to have a maid, laundry is a part of your everyday (or maybe every week) routine.

How can I make laundry easier?

There are many storage products that you can use to make the process more convenient, so I decided to make a guide to help you streamline your laundry routine.

Think about it this way:

Your laundry travels all around your home. Let’s say that the journey of your clothes starts when you put them on in the morning. You wear them all day, and at night you toss them into a laundry organizer or hamper that you have in the bathroom.

The clothes stay there for a few days until they are tossed into a laundry cart with other clothes to travel to the laundry room. The clothes go into the washer where they are cleaned with laundry detergent from the laundry room storage area. The clothes are washed and dried, and then tossed onto a laundry table to be folded.

They may even be ironed before they are placed back into the pull-out hamper and taken back to your bedroom where they are stored in a cabinet or armoire until you are ready to wear them again.

See what I mean?

A lot of storage space was required during that journey. Let’s take a look at some of the useful storage items that you can use in all of these locations.

Laundry Room Storage

These products we’re looking at in this section aren’t necessarily for storing laundry, but rather adding storage to your laundry room. For example, there might be enough space between your washer and dryer to add a slim rolling cart that you can keep detergents on.

Also, you can get stationary or rolling shelves to add a ton of vertical storage to your laundry room or pantry.

This heavy duty cart could be used to hold gardening tools, cleaning supplies, animal supplies or food, and tons of other things. The Raskog is a great buy with sturdy construction.

This laundry cart will hold all your detergents, softeners, stain removers, and other laundry supplies. While many might not appreciate plastic as a cart material, this laundry cart seems to be very durable. While the Whirlpool 1903WH can carry a lot of weight for a laundry room storage cart, it does feel a bit flimsy toward the top. If you’re planning on loading it up, I suggest packing the lighter laundry room accessories towards the top of the cart.

This cart by Whitmor is about 5 inches wider than the Whirlpool above, so fitting it between your washer and dry (or the wall) may be a tight fit. The extra width provides more stability and makes it harder to knock over if you have heavier bottles on top.

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Laundry Carts and Hampers

Not to be confused with the rolling carts above, these laundry carts have built-in hampers especially for sorting laundry.

Additionally, a couple of our recommended models have a rail for hanging clothes. This would be primarily used for holding hangers or hanging clothes you just pulled out of the dryer and don’t want them to wrinkle.

As far as carts and hampers go, the Whitmor Laundry Center has just about everything you need. The hanging bar has extensions on each side and a knob to prevent hangers from sliding off. The bags are removable and washable. The wheels are larger than any of the other hampers mentioned on this list and are heavy duty.

Similar to the previous carts I’ve mentioned, the Seville Cart and Rack has a metal frame with machine-washable bags. The bags are resting on the metal frame by hooks and easily lift off using the metal handles. Our top choice, the Whitmor Cart, had 3-inch diameter wheels and this Seville Cart has 2-inch diameter wheels. In a home with hardwood floors and low-pile carpet,
you likely won’t notice much difference. However, larger wheels generally roll easier.

The hanger rod is adjustable from 39 to 66 inches, which may make storage of this cart easier. Any sort of customization is a bonus!

Most people don’t think about how easy it is to just toss your clean laundry into a cart instead of trying to carry a big wad of clothes to the room you fold in. Baskets work, but with a cart you can presort them. The bags are washable, so you can just throw them in with a laundry load every once in a while.

DecoBros seems to be very responsive to customer issues and are willing to replace defective units, but overall the reviews for this cart are excellent.

The bumpers are a nice feature that Whitmor tends to put on their products. This is a simple round hamper that holds a surprising amount of laundry. The flexibility of a bag over a plastic bin lets you take better advantage of the volume.

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Laundry Folding Stations

Folding and sorting laundry doesn’t have to be just grabbing clothes from a giant pile on your bed. You can sort loads as you pull them out of the dryer and use the top as a convenient place to fold or press your clothes.

The mesh bags mean dirty clothes will at least get some exposure to fresh air, which is better than the solid fabric bags. The three bags are enough space to sort clean or dirty laundry, just remember which is which. The shape of the top isn’t ideal for ironing, but it can be used as an ironing board.

Both the Whitmor and Ollieroo bags are washable, but you won’t want to just toss them in the washing machine. Hand wash is best, or use a delicates mesh laundry bag to help protect the mesh.

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Bedroom and Bathroom Laundry Storage

This hamper is neutral colored and has a flip lid with 2 hamper sections. It’s also easy to carry with the built-in handles. Keeping a laundry basket sitting out in your bedroom creates an eye sore, but this hamper isn’t ugly and doesn’t take away from a room.

The laundry bags hold about 2 standard-sized loads of laundry each, so that’s 4 loads for the entire hamper.

The bags hold approximately 2 standard-sized loads of laundry, which is true for the BirdRock as well. It is constructed from 2.5mm fiber board covered in polyester linen.

Both the Household Essentials and BirdRock hampers are collapsible. That means you can fold these hampers down flat. The resulting dimensions will be the height and width of the hamper, as the long side of the hamper collapses.

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Closet Laundry Storage

This section covers storage options that are lasting furniture pieces that will fit in your closet or bedroom. They can certainly be used for more than laundry, and the Prepac Elite cabinet selection goes far beyond the one example we’re showing here. You can buy multiple cabinet sizes that connect together to fit your space.

As with any engineered wood product, be sure to not use a high-torque device to assembly this cabinet. Additionally, nails are included to attach the back piece of the cabinet. If you have some small screws on hand use them along with the nails, since nails will work themselves loose over time.

The doors of this cabinet are designed with six-way hinges so that you can choose whether you want the doors to open from the left or the right. The metal handles can also be adjusted to fit your needs, and the corners are all rounded for your safety.

If you are looking for laundry room wall cabinets that have a narrow design for storing your clothes or other laundry essentials, then this 2 door cabinet is a great option for your home. It has about 4 inches less width than the other two models above.

The slim design is perfect for narrow walkways because the cabinet will not take up a lot of space; making it perfect for a small, cramped laundry room.