How to Create a Laundry Folding Station

Doing laundry involves more than just tossing soiled clothes into a washing machine. Clean clothing pulled fresh out of the dryer often requires folding. Creating a folding station in your laundry room provides a designated area to sort, fold and stack linens, towels and clothing. The type and size of folding station that works best for you depends on your available space and personal preferences. Whatever you choose, consider a table height that is comfortable for folding clothes without putting stress on your back. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

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Measure your laundry area to determine how much available space you have to create a laundry folding station. Write those dimensions down on a piece of paper. If you're planning to position your folding station in the middle of the room, leave a minimum 2-foot area around the station's perimeter for ease in walking.

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Decide what you would like to incorporate into your laundry folding station besides a flat surface for folding clothes and towels. Storage areas for detergents, sorting bins for clean and dirty laundry, and trash containers typify laundry station additions.

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Place a free-standing metal, plastic or wooden table in a large laundry space. Refer to your space measurements for an accommodating table size. A larger folding table can also provide a space for kids to work on homework while you're doing laundry. Slide large wicker baskets under a folding table for sorting dirty clothes and towels. Leave a couple of empty baskets to fill with clean, folded clothing for ease in carrying items to their designated rooms. Tuck away a trash container underneath the table as well as a couple of stools. Top the table with see-through containers to sort socks and undergarments by color or size. Position a wheeled garment hangar at one end of the folding station to quickly hang items that don't need folding.

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Position an all-in-one laundry folding station in smaller laundry areas. A laundry cart with wheels for easy mobility allows it to be easily parked against a wall when not in use. Many compact, mobile laundry stations come equipped with an attached laundry bag, pullout baskets for additional storage, drawers, shelves and a folding table that extends when you need it.

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Attach a folding workstation to a wall for tight laundry areas with very limited floor space. Typically, these space-saving laundry stations fold out from the wall to create a generous size table when fully extended. After laundry sorting and folding is completed, the workstation neatly folds flat against a wall until needed.