Monday, November 22, 2010

Creating a custom laundry bag






So many times when a conversation comes to interior design, we say "It's all about details". So true, and it never gets old. But when we say that, something rather glamorous comes to your mind. Well, last week we had a quite different experience; we had a lot of fun designing a laundry bag! The photo below shows a drawer of an usual shape: the drawer goes under a bathtub and reflects a configuration of that space. It's a bathroom for 2 little girls, and obviously it'd be very unlikely for cloths deposited by kids into this drawer to stay IN the drawer. You can imagined that their clothes would spill out of the drawer into the opening. So we took the matter into our own hands. First, there was design #1, with a flap that would go over the lower part of the drawer and fastened with Velcro. But the problem was still there; clothes would fall over the edge. Then there was a revelation that you can see in the photos that show you the installation step by step:





















Voila!



The opening is small enough to hold everything that was placed inside and yet big enough to let you "shake" the contents into a washer. The bag is made out of a sturdy canvas used on sail boats. It is pre-washed and has the "loop"/soft side of Velcro on edges so it doesn't damage your garments.