Entry #423, February 19, 2011

Welcome to D.I.Y. Saturday at Stagetecture! As we continue ‘Making your home life easier’ month here at Stagetecture, last weeks – D.I.Y. Saturday #36 – Making your Home Energy Efficient taught you simple ways to make your home more energy efficient. This week we are going to learn how to make your Laundry room and/or Mudroom eco-friendly for your home. Whether you are trying to save energy with your tumble dryer, or you want an eco-friendly layout in your space, these tips will help.

See how to make your laundry and mudroom eco-friendly

For many home owners the laundry room is an easy culprit of wasteful energy, and environment depleting culprits. Here are tips to help you design an eco-friendly laundry and mudroom if they are combined.

To give you inspiration, here is a YouTube video of  HGTV’s Jaime Durie showing you the HGTV Green Home’s laundry and mudroom!

How to create an eco-friendly laundry room from ehow.com

• Revamp you current laundry room. Take a look at what space you have to work with and reorganize things to make a more functional workstation.
• Be sure your laundry room has proper ventilation. Pay attention to windows, fans, and doorways in your laundry room or space. Most likely you will be able to position appliances for ideal ventilation
• Use energy- and water-saving appliances whenever possible. Many companies are making more environmentally safe washers and dryers.

Follow these simple steps to make your laundry-mudroom save you energy

• Maximize your space. Utilize shelving to store supplies, cleaning products, laundry baskets and other essentials. Make use of special hangers. Install a clothing hanger on the wall for shirts and other laundry that needs to be ironed. This will help cut down on wrinkles so you don’t have to use your iron as much.
• Utilize an octopus hanger. It will help you save money and space. Use it to hang all your delicates or light-weight items rather than wasting electricity drying them.
• Hang laundry outdoors whenever you can. Use a retractable clothesline complete with a hook for bags of clothespins. Nothing beats the smell of fresh, clean laundry on a spring day.

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