7 Laundry Room Organization Ideas

Love it or hate it, laundry day is a part of everyone’s life. Even if you’re one of those people who dread this chore, we have good news. 

Thanks to the Snif laundry line, cleaning your clothes just got a little bit more elegant. The line from Snif features scents that will make your clothes smell better for longer, packaged in beautiful bottles. 

With Snif by your side, you don’t need to agonize over doing your laundry anymore. To take your laundry experience to the next level, we’re going to give you seven hacks to better organize your laundry room — and by the end, you just might be excited for laundry day the next time it rolls around. 

What Are the Benefits of an Organized Laundry Room?

Before we get to our organization tips, it’s important to understand what the benefits are of having an organized laundry room. Let’s break down the top three reasons why your laundry room deserves a little bit of TLC. 

Cleanliness

First and foremost, the cleaner your laundry room is, the cleaner your clothes will be. When you remove the lint from the dryer, vacuum the floors, sanitize the surfaces, and get all the dust out of the hard-to-reach places, you’re creating a clean environment to bring your clothes into. 

Organizing your laundry room will allow you to deep clean all the spaces you might usually neglect (like behind the washer, where no one is ever brave enough to look), and revamp the space so that it’s easier to clean on a regular basis. 

Simplified Laundry

What’s more, when you take the time to organize your laundry room, you’ll be able to get your laundry done so much faster. 

Optimizing your laundry room storage so that you know where every product is will help cut out all the time you spend digging around for stain remover or trying to find a place to plug in the iron.

Aesthetic Appeal

Last but certainly not least, an organized laundry room just looks nicer. As with all interior design projects, organizing your laundry room will give the room a lighter, airer feel. This will make it more enjoyable to be in there when you have clothes to wash. 

Who knows, after this organization overhaul, your laundry room might become your new hangout spot. 

What Are Organization Tips for Your Laundry Room?

Hopefully you’re sold on the benefits of organizing your laundry, which means it’s time to talk about the how. Below are our top tips for reorganizing your laundry space to make it one of your favorite spaces at home. 

1. Laundry Baskets and Hampers

It’s impossible to talk about laundry room organization without highlighting the necessity of a laundry hamper or laundry basket. Having a designated hamper that you can take from your bedroom or bathroom to the laundry room helps streamline the entire process. 

If you’re working with a smaller space and don’t have anywhere to comfortably fit a hamper, don’t worry. A laundry bag can work just as well as a basket; just make sure to install a few hooks where you can hang your laundry bags while the clothes are in the machine. 

2. Folding Station

Folding laundry can often be one of the most time-consuming parts of the process. That’s why creating a folding station in your laundry space is crucial. A clear countertop, fold-down tabletop, or pop-up table can all serve as a folding station. 

Regardless of what surface you use to fold your clothes, make sure it’s easily accessible and clean. If you can get into the habit of folding your clothes as soon as they come out of the dryer, you’ll save yourself time in the long run and make sure they don’t get extra-wrinkled in the machine. 

3. Storage Containers for Laundry Supplies

Ample storage is another must-have for an organized space. Think about all the different products and tools you need to do a load of laundry including: 

• Laundry detergent and fabric softeners
• Dryer sheets and dryer balls
• Hangers and clothespins

Keeping all of these laundry essentials in storage containers will make it easy to find what you need when you need it. That being said, certain products, like the new line of detergent and scent boosters from Snif, are so nice to look at that you might not want to hide them away in containers. With Snif, the days of the giant, elephant-in-the-room detergent bottles are over. Instead, our packaging is so sleek you’ll want to create a special VIP shelf just to show it off. 

4. Cleaning Supplies

As you start to move things around in your laundry room, take stock of what exactly you keep in there. Many people store additional cleaning products in their laundry rooms like floor cleaners, paper towels, hand soap, brooms, mops, and so on. 

If you’re one of those people, then make sure you dedicate a specific area in your laundry space to your cleaning supplies. It can be helpful to incorporate tall, vertical cabinets in your laundry room so that it’s easy to store your brooms and mops. 

5. Mudrooms

You can make your home organization even more efficient by separating your laundry space from your mudroom. Mudrooms are essentially rooms or specific corners dedicated to all of your dirty clothes, wet umbrellas, and (as the name would suggest) muddy shoes. 

You can place a hamper in your mudroom so that when people come home from a game or a hike they can toss their outer layers, which are often the dirtiest, straight into a laundry basket. Separating your laundry room from your mudroom is an easy way to make sure your laundry room doesn't get dirty every time your family comes home from a rainy hike. 

6. Pull-Outs

Another innovative way to make the most of your laundry space is using pull-outs. For example, if your washing machine is stacked on top of your dryer, consider putting a folding station in between the two that you can pull out when you need. 

You can also put a drying rack in that space if you often need to air dry your delicates or an ironing board if you frequently iron your clothes. Pull-out drawers and baskets can also help you optimize space in your laundry room and keep it looking uncluttered. Creative storage solutions are the name of the game when it comes to making your laundry room look as tidy as possible. 

7. Open Shelves

Open shelves in a laundry room are a great way to use the space above your washer and dryer, which often gets wasted. 

Open shelves allow you to see everything in your laundry room so that you’ll know with just a glance when you need to restock detergent or stain remover. These are especially beneficial when you have aesthetically appealing laundry products (like the ones from our new line) to put on display.

What Are Decorating Ideas for Your Laundry Space?

Once your laundry room is organized, it’s time to think about decorating. In this section, we’ll talk about a few key elements to keep in mind when you’re decorating your laundry space. 

Use Color

When people imagine laundry rooms, they usually imagine a stark white space. Although you can absolutely stick to a monochromatic theme for your laundry room, don’t be afraid to embrace color if you want. 

Adding a pop of color with a bright storage basket or framed piece of art will bring some life to your laundry space. Given that the Snif laundry line comes in gold and pink packaging, you can draw inspiration from the bottles depending on your scent of choice. 

Maximize Floor Space

It’s important to maximize floor space in your laundry room, especially if it’s a small space. You can do so by ditching your drying rack and installing dual rods straight into the laundry room wall. This will allow you to dry your delicates without sacrificing all of your floor space for a clunky drying rack. 

You can also make the most of your floor space by adding shelves for your laundry basket or hamper. This way, when you need to put it away while your clothes are in the wash, it’s not taking up precious floor space. 

Stay Practical

When decorating your laundry room, stay practical. It can be tempting to give up storage space for a comfy seat or vase for fresh flowers, but making the most of the space you have is essential. 

Whether you have a big or a small laundry room, you’ll need as much space as possible for folding, ironing, and other tasks. 

Also, make sure you move through the movements of a laundry cycle before you place any machines or storage. If it’s impossible for you to get clothes out of the drying without bumping your head on the lamp, then one of those things needs to be moved. 

How Can Snif Give Your Laundry Room a Fragrance Makeover?

With an impeccably organized and beautifully designed laundry room ready to go, the only missing piece is the Snif Laundry Collection. With this collection, Snif is making it easier than ever to get the best-smelling clothes possible. 

Our Laundry Starter Pack features an everything wash laundry detergent and a liquid scent booster. The Everything Wash is specifically designed with trustworthy ingredients to get out even the toughest stains and odors, and our Liquid Scent Booster is a first-of-its-kind product that has clean, non-irritating ingredients that will give your clothes the irresistible smell of a Snif fragrance. 

Each of these products comes in three scents: Old Money, Sweet Ash, and Rain Check. Rich and comforting, Old Money combines cardamom, tonka bean, coumarin, vanilla, sandalwood, and musk — and it’s the kind of smell that will leave your clothes smelling rich, in every sense of the word. 

Sweet Ash has an ambery, vanilla smell that’s made up of juniper, fir balsam, golden cedar, vanilla bean, and white moss, and it’s one of our bestselling fragrances. 

If you love the clean smell of laundry and want to give it an extra boost, then Rain Check is the scent for you. Bergamot, geranium, pink pepper, moss, orcanox, and vetiver come together to make this smell as irresistible as it is calming. 

Declutter Your Space

Organizing your laundry room will help keep your clothes clean, simplify your laundry process, and make your laundry space more aesthetically pleasing to be in, which is important since laundry might be something you have to do a couple of times a week. 

To achieve optimal laundry organization at home, make sure you have a hamper on hand and an easy-to-access folding station that you can use whenever necessary. You’ll also want to make sure you have plenty of storage space, in the form of pull-outs or open shelves, for both your laundry products and your cleaning supplies. 

Separating your laundry room from your mudroom can also make keeping your laundry space clean much simpler. 

To add a little bit of luxury to your laundry routine and ensure you have to do it less frequently, try out the detergent and scent booster from Snif. Available in three different scents, this duo will revolutionize the way you look at laundry, one load at a time. 

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A Comparative Study of Sustainable and Commercial Stain Removers on Textiles | IJERT

Re-discovering Sandalwood: Beyond Beauty and Fragrance | NIH