Do you ever have clothes that you only wore for a few hours, so you don’t want to wash them, but it still seems icky to put them back in the drawer or closet? What if you had a dedicated place to put them instead of on your floor or piled on a chair in the corner? [Simone Giertz] has a tidier solution for you.
On top of the quasi-dirty clothing conundrum, [Giertz]’s small space means she wanted to come up with a functional, yet attractive way to wrangle these clothes. By combining the time-honored tradition of hanging clothes on the back of a chair and the space-saving efficiency of a Lazy Susan, she was able to create a chair with a rotating rack to tuck the clothes out of the way when not wearing them.
The circular rack attached to the chair orbits around a circular seat and arm rests allowing clothes to be deposited on the chair from the front and conveniently pushed to the back so they remain out of sight and out of mind until you need them. The hardware chosen seems to be pretty strong as well given the number of items placed on the rail during the demonstration portion of the video. We also really like how [Giertz] challenged herself to “CAD celibacy” for the duration of the build to try to build it quick.
If you want to see some other clever furniture hacks, how about repurposing the seats from an old subway, or hacking IKEA furniture to be more accessible?
I have a few folding crates for laundry. One orange one which serves exactly this purpose, and a few blue ones for my cleam-but-not-yet-folded loundry which all fit in my clothing cupboard.
However, I recently saw Giertz’ house at 100m² in a “tiny house” video. My appartment is described by friends as “nice and spatious” (well… not the nice) at 67m² but I think US square metres are smaller than European ones so our normal houses are tiny US houses or something.
I agree “small” is a relative term when applied to property and varies according to where in the world you live.
I’ve got to admire [Giertz]’s living space vs. workshop space ratio though – she’s got her priorities right!
just watched her tiny house video. Neat stuff. Need to look at her projects on youtube.
Longtime fan of Giertz and her design/fabrication ideas, and this is a great idea in the build (what about a similar rotating tray/desk for chairs when you sit in them?).
There’s a philosophical dilemma in the question of whether someone who tosses clothes on a chair will take the time to rack them properly on the nifty rail, or just continue to toss them in the general direction of “Not the floor” as they always have. For better or worse, we primates love our habits .
“Do you ever have clothes that you only wore for a few hours, so you don’t want to wash them, …. ”
Yes.
“…. but it still seems icky to put them back in the drawer or closet? ”
No.
But thanks for asking.
For me it’s not so much icky as I am lazy. It’s a bad habit for sure. Jackets seem to find their way onto the backs of chairs a lot because I’m sure to use it again fairly soon so it seems silly to keep going back to the closet, even though that is certainly what I should do. Maybe the true point of this invention is to shame me into fixing the habit.
So funny – I have that exact chair in my bedroom – I bought it thinking I would sit in it and read but it was so monumentally uncomfortable that it’s been holding nothing but clothes for 30 years now.
Hmm, by exact chair I mean exactly purposed chair.