How do you dry your laundry if you don't have a utility or laundry room?

[MrsFogi]

I am fed up of my living room permanently being full of drying laundry. What do you do with yours? Do you tumble dry everything? My problem with that is that it's so difficult to iron after it's been tumble dried. Or do you manage to get it to dry outside even in winter?

[ScoobyDoo]

I have an airer in the hall way in the cornor as we have a very wide hall, i also hang things in the airing cuboard & hang the odd big thing on back of doors so out of site again. I tumble dry small things like knickers/pants/socks/vests/kids pj's & thats it.

[JingleyJen]

I have 2 clothes airer things in the utility room which hold one washing machine load each I do 2 loads each day. if we need to use the utility room for lots of access to and from the garden I tend to put the clothes airers upstairs in the spare room.

I dry outside alot of the time - if the weather is in double figures and not raining.

[TheGiftedandTalentedGoat]

i have a thing that hangs from the ceiling

[MrsBadger]

you have a tumble drier?
stop ironing.

[PanicPants]

Banisters!

And radiators.

And tumble dryer if I'm in a hurry.

[ChippyMinton]

turn off the dryer before the stuff is completely dry, then iron it if you must (i rarely iron) or just shake it and fold it.

[mosschops30]

I tumble dry everything that can be, everything else gets hung in the airing cupboard.
I never iron anything, it gets shaken after drying then put away.

[CatIsSleepy]

I dry it on radiators and on a washing stand in the living-room...so I too have a living-room full of laundry most of the time

have a washer-drier but don't like to use the drier as it takes ages and uses loads of electricity

I rarely iron

[DrNortherner]

Bannisters and radiators

[OverMyDeadBody]

Banisters and radiators and clothes airers here too. I hate that my house resembles a laundry most days and dream of utility rooms!

My parents have a lovely utility room with those old wooden clothes dryers that you lower from the ceiling and then hoist back up again. Lovely!

[meemar]

our local launderette is only a few doors away so I put a couple of enormous
drier-fulls in each week and the rest on radiators and airers

[Minum]

No tumbling for green reasons - I put it on hangers on door frames upstairs, airer on landing for little bits - banisters for towels and sheets - it dries very quickly up there, and doesnt bother me as its upstairs

[snowfunwhenyoureknackered]

it hangs around the living room till its dry

tumble drier too expensive

heating on so clothes dry in a day or two!

mind you living room looks like a laundry/dining room/tv room/computer room/relaxing(!) room/gadget room.....................

desperately need an extension but zero money

[nannyL]

i get mine outside on the washing line.

i ahve a relaly high washing lin that catches every tiny bit of wind.

a few hours in the wind on my line and its dry enough to spend the night in the airing cupbaord and be ironed the following day!

[themoon66]

Outside if it's not raining. We live in a windy spot at the top of a hill.

If it's raining then it goes on clothes horses in the garage or on radiators if the heating is on.

I only tumble dry to finish stuff off and save on ironing.

[TigerFeet]

our spare bedroom resembles a laundry most of the time, especially in the winter

outside when it's not too cold/wet

radiators/banisters etc

I refuse to put it in the living room - far too depressing

[gibberish]

I tumble virtually everything. Those things that are prone to shrinkage, i.e. T-shirts and delicates, I hang on a collapsable clothes drier in the kitchen.

[ComeOVeneer]

In summer I dry in the utility room and outside, in the winter it doesn't dry in the utility room ,so I pop it on clothes horses in dh's study.

[calzone]

There was a really long thread on this a couple of weeks ago.

some of the ideas were so great I have now managed to move my airer into the bathroom and it hangs over the bath and dries in a day. I have also put one of those radiator hangers into the airing cupboard and hang all the tops and DHs shirts in there.

No more washing hanging around anymore and the house looks much tidier!

[FluffyMummy123]

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[SomeLikeItHot]

We havent got room for a tumble dryer so I hang sheets & duvet covers over banister and everything else gets put onto clothes airer and radiators and shut in dining room out of sight!!

[Bink]

I haven't a laundry room or a utility room or indeed a garden - but we manage fine with an overhead clothes airer (the thing you lower from the ceiling, like other posters have mentioned) which takes up the entire roofspace of our downstairs loo (which also houses the heating boiler, so it stays quite warm). (And a tumble drier, which is used minimally - for underwear & towels just - which are taken out when still hot & only barely dry, folded & put in airing cupboard = magic near-ironedness.)

The only issue is that you have to ration out your washing - only a certain amount can be done each day. But it's completely fine.

[TigerFeet]

tops and shirts hang on hangers on the curtain rail... so much easier to iron

[oneplusone]

in the tumble dryer but DH's shirts for work i hang outside or inside in utility room on a clothes rail. I only iron DH's shirts.

We used to live in a flat and didn't have a tumble dryer so used to dry stuff on racks in the living room. They used to take a day or two to dry and always smelt musty! I know it's not green but i am so glad i bought a tumble dryer last year especially with all the rain we've had.