Week 4: Linen Closet/ Laundry Room Organization

/ Simplify with Sheeba/

New Month, New Week! Since we last tackled our bathrooms, it only made sense to continue on to the linen closet. My linen closet is within the laundry room so this post will cover both spaces. Here is where I keep all our sheets, towels, laundry products, and extra household supplies.

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Ready? 3 2 1, let’s go!

Let’s Organize the Linen Closet

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Towels

So if you’re like me, you have a set of favourite towels that you gravitate towards, and some you only use if you have no choice. If your closet is overflowing with towels, let’s start going through them and start decluttering. Anything with holes, stains or if they have started fraying - get rid of them. (If you have younger kids, I would suggest to keep a few old towels on hand in case of big spills or messes, otherwise out they go)

Tip: You can donate your old towels to a veterinarian or an animal shelter. They’ll gladly accept them.

Sheets

Just like the towels, anything with stains or rips can go. We don’t need to hold on to so many extras.

Clients often ask me how many sheets they should keep on hand? The number can vary from person to person, but a safe bet would be 3 per person. This allows you to rotate your sheets and you’ll always have one on hand in between washes. I keep the sheets separated by which bed they are for. I also like to keep my sheets in fabric bins. This helps from sheets spilling over, and it just looks visually more attractive.

Pro Tip: Keep the sheets folded into their corresponding pillowcases. Helps keep everything together.

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Now is also a good time to go through the space you keep your laundry products, toss out anything you don’t use. I store all my laundry products together depending on how often I use them. The detergents and softeners are up front. Stain removal products are behind. (They used to be up front when kids were younger!)

All the overflow products and less used cleaning products are on a less accessible shelf.

Because my laundry room is on the same floor as the bedrooms, we don’t have individual hampers in each room. I keep one main hamper within the laundry room. I love finding ways to maximize my space. I found this 2 tier, vertical laundry hamper from Costco.

Also, since we’re on the topic of laundry. One tip I absolutely try to live by, Do a load of laundry per day. (sometimes it’s every other day, if we’re being honest).

Here are some useful Amazon products to organize the laundry room. See if they’ll work for you.

Over the door or wall mounted ironing board and iron holder

Slim, Slide out Storage Tower

Fabric storage bins

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