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To not have a ironing dungeon

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CatherineHate · 09/04/2017 09:26

So, I'm currently living with MIL while DP partner and I renovate (read: rebuild) the house we just bought.

throughout the process MIL has been banging on about making an "ironing room" - a dungeon where I'll apparently be ironing mine and DP's clothes on a Sunday.

I've told her a million times that I'll be doing my ironing somewhere more entertaining - in front of the TV (what my mum does).

ladies and gents of Mumsnet, do I really need a ironing room or is MIL exaggerating?

This is not a MIL bashing thread, I'm just genuinely confused as to why she's so insistent on this designated room

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dinosaursandtea · 09/04/2017 09:50

Why the obsession about having the ironing board up all the time? Mine takes a second to fold away - do you all have super complicated ones?!

CurbsideProphet · 09/04/2017 09:50

I don't buy clothes that need ironing and DP irons his own shirts

YA Clearly NBU!

AConvivialHost · 09/04/2017 09:51

I enjoy ironing but hate setting the board and iron up, so a designated room where I could leave everything set up and watch TV would be fab. When we convert our garage I'm extending the utility so I can do this, and also have a hanging rail put up so I can hang things up straight away so they don't get creased on a pile.

Scottishchick39 · 09/04/2017 09:54

I have an ironing room, it has a TV and a wine fridge. Suits me 😂

Scottishchick39 · 09/04/2017 09:55

@Dementedswan, great minds think alike.

Whileweareonthesubject · 09/04/2017 09:55

We don't have any spare rooms, so our ironing gets done in the living room in front of the television. By DH. Maybe you should direct you MIL to your dp to find out where he would prefer to do the ironing? After all, he will be doing at least half of it, won't he?

Unicorn81 · 09/04/2017 09:56

Oh i cant think of anything worse! Tell her to mind her own business

wowfudge · 09/04/2017 09:56

Tell her you'll be outsourcing the ironing in future and paying someone else to do it. That'll stick in her craw.

edwinbear · 09/04/2017 09:56

DH does the ironing in our house. In front of the TV.

PaulDacresFeministConscience · 09/04/2017 09:58

But it's the new house where she's insisting that an ironing room is a must

Well when she buys herself a new house to renovate, she can insist away to her heart's content. But as it is not her house, then it's pretty pointless insisting upon anything seeing as it's not hers and she won't be living there.

All said with a nice smile and then accompanied by a firm change of subject.

If I had the room I'd have a big utility room where I could keep the ironing board up on a permanent basis - and then just transfer stuff from dryer and airers, in the ironing basket so that everything goes into the room dirty and then comes back out clean, ironed and ready to put away. But holy fuck I'd not stand and iron for hours on end without something to watch. X Factor on catch-up always used to be my guilty pleasure when ironing.

insancerre · 09/04/2017 09:59

I have an ironing room
It's the spare bedroom
I have the ironing board all set up, rails for hanging clothes
I do have plans for a tv to make it complete
I used to do it in front of the tv but have recently bought a huge beast of a steam iron and dh complains he can't hear the tv
Now I can iron whenever I need to, and I just leave the piles in the ironing room. I don't get the rage now like I used to when people would look for a single item of clothing in their pile and take it up stairs, leaving the rest of the pile on the table

PaulDacresFeministConscience · 09/04/2017 09:59

Anyway, it occurs to me that DH now does the ironing so the utility room design would be up to him!

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CatherineHate · 09/04/2017 10:00

hmm the jury seems to favour and ironing room as long as it has some form of entertainment

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sniffle12 · 09/04/2017 10:01

My mum has turned my childhood bedroom into an ironing room. The TV in there doesn't work so I'm very confused as to what she does in there other than iron, which sounds fatally boring to me. She also has one of those irons with a 'base' that look like a small space station.

I on the other hand don't iron unless absolutely necessary as I'm really clumsy, have already burnt the carpet and constantly fear burning myself

Batghee · 09/04/2017 10:10

does she mean a room where you put ironing.... coz thats actually quite sensible. I went in a house that had one of those... like a big walk in airing cupboard with everybody in the houses names on a shelf each.
Pretty good because i just chuck all the clean clothes on the floor of our bedroom and have a pile of ironed clothing to put away........... which i never put away and just stays there 24/7
So at least if i had an ironing room it would all just be in the ironing room 24/7

Lweji · 09/04/2017 10:12

The ironing room sounds like a great man cave, when you want some peace and quiet.

The trick is to convince your OH that ironing is the same as whatever men do in sheds. Or computer games.

Hulder · 09/04/2017 10:14

We have an ironing room here but only by accident. It's the spare room and we can't be arsed to put the ironing board away

Also, the cleaner does the ironing and DH does any left over I have carefully chosen my wardrobe so it doesn't require any ironing.

So I would be in favour of an ironing room to save faff of putting ironing board up and down and nice place to store laundry.

However why you should have to do your DP's ironing is a mystery to me unless perhaps tragically he has no hands? Or why Sunday is the only permissable day for ironing?

Have a room for laundry with an ironing board up, entertainment in it, each do your own ironing or even better get someone else to do it

QueenieGoldstein · 09/04/2017 10:15

I find if you fold clothes properly the weight of the pile "irons" the worst out so no need to have an ironing dungeon. If I do iron it's in the kitchen with iPlayer on the tablet.

insancerre · 09/04/2017 10:15

Lweji
That's exactly what my ironing room is!
A place where I can escape to, look out of the window, listen to music
I don't have to talk to anyone or listen either 😃
If I also do some ironing in there, then that's a bonus
Everyone needs an ironing room

honeypooh2017 · 09/04/2017 10:15

I'd love a utility room big enough to dry clothes in so my dining room doesn't always look like a chinese laundry. However we've no space so tough. Clothes waiting to be ironed stay in a wardrobe upstairs so I iron upstairs in front of the tv. Saves me lugging the clothes downstairs and then back up again.

seasontotaste · 09/04/2017 10:17

MIL is obviously offering to do your ironing in a rather clumsy way. IIWM I would jump at the offer

LakieLady · 09/04/2017 10:55

I can't recall the last time I used the iron. It won't have been since the end of last summer (I find summer clothes are more inclined to need ironing, partly because of my addiction to baggy linen trousers).

Everything else either gets neatly folded and piled into the airing cupboard, where it kind of irons itself (if helps if things are less than bone dry when put in there, I find), or shaken vigorously to get the worst of the creases out, then dried on a hanger. An "ironing room" would be a waste of space for me, I'd rather have my own room to read and listen to music in, tbh.

I'd love a laundry room though. It would have to have room for a couple of big airers and one of those things that you raise up on a pulley. And a laundry chute: I have fantasies about chucking all the dirty stuff into a chute and it ending up in a laundry room to be sorted and stuck in the machine.

Minniemagoo · 09/04/2017 11:01

I'd love an ironing room, but it would have to have a radio and somewhere to prop my tablet for netflix or a tv. Would be great to not have to set up everything each time, not be lugging clothes piles in or have to put ironed clothes away before sitting down. I'd love 5 shelves and iron everyones clothes and make it their responsibility to put away their clothes. I would imagine it I had such a room it would be so much easier to pop in and do 20 mins when I need to instead of the marathon sessions I currently seem to face.

Topseyt · 10/04/2017 14:11

I don't iron. I just fold stuff and make DH and the DDs go and put it away. Sorted. Job done.

No need for an ironing room, or does she call it an ironing parlour?

upperlimit · 10/04/2017 14:15

I'd quite like an ironing room. I'd like it to be soundproofed though so I can't hear dh whining about ironing his shirts.

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