Your laundry room is designed for one key purpose: caring for clothes, linens, and cleaning essentials. It’s a functional hub where you sort, wash, dry, and fold clothes. Cluttering it with misplaced belongings doesn’t just ruin its neatness; it slows down your laundry routine, too.
In this blog post, we’re breaking down the items that work better stored elsewhere. By keeping only what truly belongs in your laundry room, you’ll turn it into a streamlined space that makes caring for your fabrics faster, easier, and far more stress-free.
Skip Storing These in Your Laundry Room
Your laundry room is for clothes, linens and cleaning essentials—it works best clutter-free. Storing the wrong items creates mess, slows routines, damages belongings or risks safety. Here are 8 things that belong elsewhere:
1. Entertainment Supplies
Don’t use laundry rooms for quick storage of books, board games or remotes: humidity, spills and lint damage them. Keep entertainment gear elsewhere—living rooms or dedicated storage work.
2. Food or Pantry Items
Non-perishables like snacks, canned goods or pet food don’t belong here—laundry room moisture and chemical odors harm food. Keep food in pantries or kitchen cabinets.
3. Electronics and Batteries
Phones, chargers and spare batteries are risky in laundry rooms—humidity corrodes electronics, water or detergent ruins devices, and dampness speeds up battery degradation. Store them in dry, cool drawers or closets.
4. Flammable or Volatile Substances
Paint thinner, gasoline, or aerosol cans are a major hazard here. Laundry rooms have heat sources like dryers, water heaters, which can ignite flammable liquids, and volatile fumes can mix with cleaning chemicals to create dangerous reactions. Keep these in well-ventilated, fire-safe storage areas.
5. Pet Crates or Litter Boxes
Laundry rooms (small, poorly ventilated) aren’t good for pet crates or litter boxes—odors stick to clean linens, hair clogs dryers, and pets lack comfort. Use a dedicated pet area.
6. Excess Hangers
Piling extra hangers in your laundry room seems convenient, but it adds clutter—crowding spaces and blocking access to supplies or folding areas. Keep only regular-use hangers here; store extras in bedroom closets or a hall cabinet.
7. Unmatched Socks or Clothing Items
That pile of single socks or “to-be-mended” clothes can quickly take over your laundry room. It adds visual chaos, makes it harder to focus on folding clean items, and often leads to forgotten pieces. Use a small bin in your bedroom to collect unmatched socks or mending projects instead.
8. Delicate Fabrics or Clothing
Silk blouses, wool sweaters, or formal wear shouldn’t be stored in laundry rooms. The humidity can cause mildew or stretching, and lint from dryers can stick to delicate fibers. Plus, laundry rooms are for processing clothes, not long-term storage.
By clearing these items out of your laundry room, you’ll turn it into a streamlined, efficient space that focuses on what it does best: keeping your clothes and linens clean, fresh, and easy to care for.
Storage Solutions for Daily & Work Items
Looking to organize your daily and work supplies? Our earlier post Complete Storage Solutions for Every Room in Your Home offers all-around storage solutions—give it a read if you need detailed ideas. For storage furniture that fits your needs, shop the Organization section at Tribesigns.com.
