Well that’s only half of the plan, you need an upstairs laundry room which is in the centre of the floor plan, each bedroom shares a wall with the laundry room ie. on the other side. Each wall has a Shute so that when in the bedroom you bung your dirty clothes in the Shute and they land in the laundry room. Each room also has a wardrobe that opens into the laundry room so when the clothes are clean and dry they are pur directly into the wardrobe from the laundry room. Yes I’ve been dreaming of this for years.
That's still only half the plan, which means the original plan was only a quarter of my plan Mango
What we all really need is a house with eight bedrooms on the second floor and three or four bedrooms in the attic. Somewhere near the middle of the house there should be a lift shaft down to the basement. Also in the basement should be a kitchen, pantry, wash room, boot room, bike washing room, waterproof-coat-rewaxing room etc. The lift will carry the domestic staff down to the basement where they can have breakfast. At 9.00am they can go up to the third floor and pick up all the clothes off the floor and back of chairs and carry them down to the basement.
In the basement the clothes can be washed, aired and ironed. If it is a sunny day the lift can come up to the ground floor and the still wet washing can be carried out to the garden and dried. If there are eight sheets and each sheet has four pegs and the staff only bring up 31 pegs, they can return to the basement via the lift for a further peg, before returning again to the ground floor to finish hanging out the washing. If by accident they should get to the second floor before exiting at ground level they can either throw the peg out the window towards the washing line in the garden or descend with the peg to the ground floor and then make their way outside.
Once the washing has dried outside it can be brought into the middle of the house. The options then are to either immediately take the washing up in the lift from the ground floor to the second floor, returning via the lift to the basement to get the iron and ironing board, before again taking the lift up two floors to the second floor to commence pressing the garments before putting them away or taking the washing first from the ground floor to the basement to collect the iron and ironing board before elevating – this time with both the washing, iron and ironing board all together – to the second floor. There are also other possibilities.
What this is intended to demonstrate is that all these kind of problems would be solved if we simply bought bigger houses, took on some domestic staff and were prepared to think more laterally.