How to Organize a Small Laundry Room

Doing laundry tends to be everyone's least favorite chore, maybe tied with doing the dishes. You likely already have a system for doing laundry that works for you, but what about the room itself? Especially when you have a small space to work with, organizing your laundry room can seem impossible.

We've taken our expertise and put together our best tips on how to organize a small laundry room. We focused on practical, but attractive options. Overall, the goal is to maximize your space to simplify your life and make that task a little less irritating.

People often assume that to maximize your available space, you have to sacrifice design--that’s simply not true. Your modest laundry room doesn’t have to become cluttered and packed in to fit all your needs.

Use the In-Between Spaces

First tip on how to organize a small laundry room: use all the in-between spaces. A foot-wide space next to your washer is the perfect place to add a cute cart of some kind for laundry supplies storage. When you need it, all you have to do is roll it out.

What about an even smaller gap? Look into a wall mount for storing your mop, broom, and swiffer so they’re not piled next to the dryer in a hard to reach area.

Invest in a Step Stool

Particularly if you have a stacked washer/dryer situation, a step stool is life changing. Suddenly there’s a large area for storing extra laundry supplies, light bulbs, towels, and more. Now you can finally move those little things that seem to have no home into an area where they’re tucked away but easy to get to if you need them with your brand new step stool.

Laundry Supplies Storage Can Look Nice

Finding the perfect spot for storing laundry supplies is a much harder job than it sounds. If you don’t have any cabinets, the obnoxiously colored detergent bottle seems to always be out and ruining the ambiance of your home. This doesn’t have to be the case.

Whether it’s a trip to the thrift store or Target, find yourself some nice containers that mesh well with the design of your space. If you love warm tones, looking for woven box baskets would be perfect for holding laundry necessities. Use large glass containers to keep powdered detergent or pods. Check out a cute drink dispenser for your liquid detergent. You can even use a tissue dispenser to hold your dryer sheets in a cute way! Laundry supplies storage doesn’t have to look messy or unrefined.

Where to Keep Your Laundry Hamper

Having a laundry hamper in the laundry room can help make sorting easier, but if you have a small space, where do you keep your laundry hamper? A collapsible fabric laundry hamper is one answer. These slip into small spaces very easily, getting hidden away the moment they’re not useful.

How to Organize Laundry Room Cabinets

If you happen to have laundry room cabinets, you’re probably wondering how to make them less chaotic. Organizing laundry room cabinets isn’t rocket science, you mainly need the following materials: bins, labels, and time.

You’ll need to pull everything out of the cabinets, throwing out the trash along the way. After you’ve pulled things out, you need to group them together based on their use and how often you use them. For example, all your stain removers should likely be put into the same bin so you always know where to look when your kid has a tumble in the grass. Label things as necessary and then load them back into the cabinets!

If you don’t have any cabinets yet, our wooden laundry room organizers and shelves are customizable to many needs. They can certainly fit into smaller spaces and replace the flimsy wire shelving that often collapses after one too many boxes.

End of the day, doing laundry may be a tedious task, but your space doesn’t have to make you dislike it even more! Taking the time to organize your small laundry room can make these everyday tasks a little less difficult.