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Apr 26 2012

{ORGANISING} and hiding the ironing pile

Category: Laundry • Lounge Room • Organising

We recently upgraded our old TV to a flat screen, with that we also needed a new  TV unit.  I found a wonderful long unit to match the rest of our mahogany furniture.

Our iron basket used to sit nicely next to the old TV.  We previously kept it in the laundry but then we got our cat, so I moved things around in the laundry for her litter box to fit (she is an indoor cat).  I had the ironing hiding in a hamper which can also be used for storing blankets or cushions.  However it was looking out-of-place next to our new unit.  

I went in the search for some baskets to place in the middle of the unit.  The Mor-Stor Water Hyacinth Storage Baskets were a perfect fit.

The Water Hyacinth Baskets are stylish and guests wouldn’t realise that my ironing is hiding inside!  I have one basket for hubbies clothes and the other for the kids.  I don’t buy clothes for myself that need ironing.  

Where do you keep your ironing basket?

View Mor-Stor shop HERE

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1440481413 Sandie Fletcher on Facebook

    Pahaha hiding the ironing pile… excellent, my ironing pile is hiding my favorite chair! Must get inspired today :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=565696630 Melanie Gardner on Facebook

    Yep mine usually hides something else rather than me hiding it! Will have to work on a good hidey hole…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1404842070 Katrina Petarcic on Facebook

    Where are all your dvd’s etc if not stored in the tv cabnet?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=64040863005 Positive Parenting Solutions on Facebook

    great idea!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001796986628 Richelle Black on Facebook

    Love it.

  • Marcena74

    What a great idea! The baskets also hide the cables at the rear of the unit, too!

  • Snotface Stinkbum’s Mum

    ironing? what ironing? like you, i avoid clothes for myself that require ironing, and hubby is a mechanic – no need for ironing there either! Snotface Stinkbum is not at school yet, so no uniforms either! i iron so much (usually when i sew) that hubby found the ironing board whilst doing some decluttering in the spare room and asked me why we had it “to iron on, dear” “we have an iron?”

    but i do love the ‘non traditional’ use of the storage

  • Shoe_gal3178

    I don’t do ironing, I fold them straight off the line (For the things that get folded) and for the things that are hung I bring coat hangers out to the line and hang them straight on them and put them away. We have a big wardrobe (which helps a lot). And if I don’t have time to bring them in I won’t. But I mostly do.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Phoenicia55 Phoenicia Parkyn

    I only iron when I need something eg work clothes I either iron each morning or evening or do 5 days at once – I started this when I had 2 piles of ironing that I never ever got to. Much easier to just hang everything up as soon as its dry or fold up and put in the cupboards. The baskets are a good idea, but who wants to have your ironing basket under the TV?

  • Kazzie

    I love it! That’s good thinking … ‘thinking outside the square’.

    Usually I have an ironing basket located on the laundry bench, but being an empty-nester, only throw a few to be ironed on the back of our chair in our eating room as a reminder! Convenient, but an eyesore.

  • http://shambolichome.wordpress.com/ Harriet Archer

    The ironing basket is in our room. It comes out every second Sunday night to sit by the front door so I don’t forget to leave it out for the Ironing Fairy. Aside from that, it sits on the floor between the door and dressing table. I toss the empty hangers back in there as well.

  • http://twitter.com/heyLisaWarren Lisa Warren

    I don’t have an ironing basket at all. All of our shirts are placed on hangers straight out of the washing machine. Once dry, they go straight into the wardrobe, to be ironed as they’re worn. It would make sense to dedicate a particular time each week to iron all the shirts etc, then I wouldn’t be running around like a crazy woman every morning!

    btw – those baskets look fabulous in your tv unit!! Genius.

  • Joolzmac

    I do the same as Lisa Warren – I put away shirts as they are dry then iron as necessary – one each morning as part of my routine. Hubby is quite capable of ironing a shirt if need be.

  • Letitia

    My ironing basket sits in my walk in robe until I get a chance to do it. I iron every time I sit and watch TV therefore do it quite regularly. Usually Sunday nights and a night during the week. I love neatly ironed clothes.

  • Julie

    As I am an Ironing Lady, I do about 3-4 baskets a day for other people plus my own family, there is always lots of ironing here.

  • http://twitter.com/kerrinish Kerrin

    … I do not iron.

  • Jspunner

    My ironing basket is also in our wardrobe but my system is I cut my Mum’s hair she takes a bag of ironing & then I only have to iron it if I really need it.
    Katrina the baskets look great. Would you know where I could find something similar but smaller (like to fit in the Ikea expedit series bookcase) maybe in a faux leather? I can’t seem to find any & you seem to have agood eye for storage.
    Thanks
    Jo

  • Jazz

    I had to think about this post for a while. I’ve fallen into the trap of having a plastic tub in front of the tv unit pretty much permanently which is full of my ironing to be done and I hate it. It goes away when I know I have visitors coming but for anyone who drops in, it is on display for all to see. Reading this post made me really think about this. Our side cabinets in our tv unit contain the kids’ hard cover books on the left, and I’ve take the door off it’s hinges to allow the kids access to the books rather than having to open the door all the time, and on the other side, our dvds etc with the door in place (we removed the handle when the kids were little – they couldn’t open it without but we could still manage).
    The kids never use these books any more (mind you, the minute I started thinking about getting rid of them, they went back to them again – doh!) so I am going to pack them up and move them. I’m going to get a proper book case and some might go in there, but the tv unit is going to have it’s door put back in place, and I’m going to find some pretty fabric or paper to cover the glass doors and in goes my washing. Thank you so much for this post! I’m so sure that not looking at my ironing all day will do a lot for my sanity!!

  • Jodene

    I don’t have an ironing pile/basket either. Everything gets folded and put away after washing and in the evening I just iron the kids uniforms and whatever I want to wear for the next day and that’s it. Takes about 15 mins and it’s done. I just can’t bring myself to do hours of ironing in one go. I have too many other fun things I would rather be doing ;)

  • Eli

    My ironing basket is kept in the laundry. I fold anything that I can, straight off the line. Anything that has to be ironed gets done of a Sunday night, ready for the week. I love seeing my basket empty for the start of the week. It also means that I don’t have to panic each morning to iron uniforms (I’m so not a morning person) and get to sleep in a little longer.

  • Jennifer

    I love the long tv console unit… no glass doors! Where did you get it… been looking for just this style!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/meljlord Mel Lord

    I love reading all the comments for this post. My partner does all the ironing. I can’t/won’t iron. If it needs ironing, I give it away. I fold all washing as it comes off the line. And I hang what should be looked after a bit more. But my partner irons either the kids or his own clothes as they are pulled out of the wardrobes. I try to have tomorrow clothes pulled out before we go to bed, so he irons then. I do make it even however. I love being in the garden, and I do help with mowing and the garden up keep….

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