A nice piece of furniture to store 3 separate loads of laundry?

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This sort of thing is the most practical idea I've found so far but I can't say I like it as a piece of furniture.

It's to go on our top landing so would be good if it could actually look half decent. I need 3 sections, for whites, lights and darks.

I can find nice-looking single laundry baskets but separating washes every day isn't my idea of fun.

Any solutions?

wash everything together on a 40 wash. never had any probs! there, all your laundry troubles solved by sheer laziness..

ratbunny! You've never experienced colour-run??

no, i don;t think so. sometimes i put my red top in a wash with the darker towels, but otherwise I wash everything together.

Well if you want a nice piece of furniture you could just get a chest of drawers!

I'm sure I've seen multi-bin laundry sorters, but they're not nice pieces of furbiture either - does it have to go on your landing?

Could you just put it all in one bin and then sort it elsewhere when it's time to bung it in the machine?

furbiture???

bedtime I think (no kitten to summon me here)

WW: yes it has to go on the landing and no, life's too short to sort laundry!

Hmm, chest of drawers. The drawers would have to be very deep ... I suppose dirty laundry is traditionally stored in baskets so that it can, erm, breathe, as it were ...

I like this one

from Argos

Mm, doesn't divide into 3 tho does it?

I always wash lights and whites together, just seperate darks!

Bit pricey, but have you looked at the great little trading company stuff - activity bookcase has six boxes, or there's the triple storage trunk, which might work so long as the compartments don't get over-full?

About the activity bookcase (six compartments) - Annlisa Barbieri in the Guardian reckons that some super-organised people use it as follows: top three boxes for dirty laundry, bottom three for clean, folded/ironed laundry ready for members of the family to put away...

Shove them in together at 30degrees! As longas you dont putthe new red sock in with the whites you should be fine. I've never had a problem.

No it doesn't divide into 3 but I always wash all my whites and lights together and darks in a separate wash load. Think you'll be very lucky to find one with three sections nowadaya.

I'm buying that one this week

You have to think though, would the family actually divide the washing up themselves or dump it in any old drawer!!

My family would not divide it!!

"Washing? You mean you have to WASH it? I just thought it magically disappeared from the place I dropped it and magically re-appeared clean and folded and putaway?"

I'm FAIRLY sure thats what people think in this house lol!

Mmm, that's one of the reasons I'm putting the laundry baskets in one central communal place - NO EXCUSES (in theory anyway)

Looks like I may have to opt for the single container tho and resign myself to sorting the stuff. Not sure I could rely on DH and the DDs getting it right anyway - hoping that they'll ultimately work out what's dirty and dump it all in the same place may be ambitious enough ...

I have two lloyd loom linen baskets on the landing - one white (for whites and pink) and one gold (for darks). Works ok, it's easy to pull out the whites.

The space on the landing is very small tho CM which is why I was wanting baskets that would go on top of each other ...

ah! Didn't realise you wanted a tower of dirty washing. several shapes here

Oops just spotted your posts policy et al.

kd73 - I only do lights separately from whites because we have so many of the latter so they might as well all go in together

PW - GLTC one too big for our little landing (and a bit too colourful!)

collision - yes good point - am slowly coming to accept this ...

Chippy - yes Cotswold do seem to have the best selection - this design would suit our house best, although the sizes/shapes aren't perfect.

For now, I've just moved the quite nice wooden laundry chest that has been living in our bedroom onto the top landing, as a kind of experiment. Up till now it's just been for whites, and coloureds have been going in 2 plastic baskets in the bottom of DH's wardrobe - not exactly accessible for the DDs. Will see how we get on with this arrangement, and buy something bigger as necessary ...

my immedaite thought was three washing machines