Laundry "workflow"

[Panapan]

I have been lucky enough to have a laundry room for the past few years, but am moving to a house where the washing machine is in the kitchen. I have 2 small children and a third due in the next couple of months. I'd love to hear your hints and tips for how you keep laundry under control and not cluttering up your kitchen. (At the moment I bring it down every morning and it goes into a basket in the laundry room ready to be sorted). I generally do a wash every day, to keep on top of it. Thank you :)

We don't have much white washing so that sometimes sits at the bottom of the basket (just two t-shirts, something like that) until there's a few more white items

The only white items we have are my DDs' school uniform shirts plus a few t-shirts, it's such a pain that most of the time I do a 'neutral wash' with their grey trousers and similar things with a focused white wash at the starts of breaks when I can get all of them together and (hopefully) out in the sun for a bit without worrying so much about time and everything else. I'm counting the days until summer break to do a soak and wash with them. Not sure it's the best system, though it's worked for us okay so far.

I separate towels , flannels tea towels etc and they get an extra hot wash. I also separate dark clothing . I’ve recently discovered colour catchers so a lot more gets washed together than it used to ( mainly kids clothing) . Dry outside where/if you can, fold and put away straight away if it’s dry. Winter is def harder but summer I can keep much more on top of it.