indoors
G ET ORGANIZED
Laundry List
With these
11
tips that put everything in its place,
laundry is a chore no more.
H ELEN NORM AN PRODUCED BY JA N N A LUFKIN
BY JO D Y GARLO CK PHOTO!
Spot treat
Laundry rooms tend to be dirty
little secrets—raw spaces where clothes pile on the
floor and washers and dryers stand alone. The irony
wasn’t lost on Helen Norman, who had cobbled
together a bare-bones laundry area in her 1850s
Maryland home. Tired of the inefficiency, she and her
friend, designer Janna Lufkin, redesigned the space
with loads of function. Janna designated areas for
laundering, folding, ironing, air-drying, and storage.
“Everything seemed chaotic before,” Helen says. “Now,
it’s a space I want to come into and treat with respect.”
1. UNDER COVER
Helen had a cabinet
built to house her
front-loading
washer and dryer.
The top is made of
linoleum flooring to
provide a durable
work surface.
Marmorette
flooring $2-3/square
foot; armstrong.com
2. LIGHT LOADS
“A fresh coat
of paint works
wonders,” says
Janna, who
brightened the
room with white
beaded board
that covers
uneven walls.
3. OUT TO DRY
An antique quilt
rack augments
wall-mounted
drying racks. Helen
air dries a lot of
clothes and doesn’t
iron much; space
for those tasks
was assigned
accordingly.
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