Monday Nook

The 'House That A-M Built Clothesline'.

This Monday's Nook is 'oh so NOT glamorous' but had to be shown, as a lesson to those folk out there planning to do their OWN plans in a house build.

Just before you submit your plans, ask yourself, "where's the clothesline going to go"?

Err slight oversight. I don't have a clothesline! I just assumed that my clothesline would live on the wall outside the laundry but no, you can't mount a clothesline on lineaboard, it has to be mounted on masonry. The only masonry is down the end of the laundry deck, at the end of the porch, but it has two shuttered windows in it and no width for a clothesline. The laundry deck is only 1.3m wide and most 'family' sized clotheslines are 1.5m wide anyway.

Major lesson A-M. So what are you going to do besides shrink everything in the clothes dryer? ..... not to mention power bills. We can't put an old hills hoist up in the lawn area as one, it would be grossly ugly, and two, the walk from the laundry would be too long and through pool gates! Any suggestions?

Access down to the laundry from the powder room.

Here are some more photos of the laundry. A special request for laundry photos came from Villa Anna..... and rightly so. Dear Anna posted the very pictures that inspired my laundry, a very long time ago. They are still on my blog side bar.

The ceilings are 3 metres high as the laundry is on the same level as the Great Room and Study.

View of laundry from side deck. Now what is a blue defect sticker doing way up there?

Looking out to the hall and Great Room. Steps up to powder room on the right. Oh look , there's another blue defect sticker. I thought I'd got them all!

This is where I had hoped to mount a decent sized clothesline, just past the 2 kitchen windows down the end. This is the deck from the laundry down to the pool, complete with hose! Oh look ... and there's hubby sanding the back picket fence. Yay, we are now so close to getting a coat of paint on it!

Laundry deck, looking down to the street.

So that's my laundry so far. I am hoping to have some pretty glass shelves installed along the subway tiled walls. I allowed 900mm distance between the benches and the overhead cupboards in order to have enough headroom to work at the bench and have some glass wall shelves.... and yes I can just reach the overheads.... being only 5 ft 3... it was always going to be close!