This past weekend, I was in a house with the washing machine and dryer right smack in the kitchen. It struck me as a little unusual, and got me thinking as to how I would manage that if it were my own home. I would have no choice but to make it work, but I wondered if it would bother me having it right there where I prepare meals. The more I thought about it, the more I realized having your laundry room right off your kitchen would essentially increase your productivity. Think about it – in between chopping vegetables or waiting for water to boil, you could be folding your load of whites!

My laundry room is in the basement and although our home is not huge, it feels like a mile away. And sometimes I just postpone walking down to fold the laundry, and then all of a sudden it’s a week later and my load is still sitting in the dryer. It’s terrible!

Perhaps if my washer and dryer were in my closet, or at least on the first floor hidden in a closet, I’d be less lazy with my laundry and more proficient.

What about you? Is your laundry room in a different place like your kitchen or your clothes closet?

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Originally posted here: sixdifferentways.com

This past weekend, I was in a house with the washing machine and dryer right smack in the kitchen. It struck me as a little unusual, and got me thinking as to how I would manage that if it were my own home. I would have no choice but to make it work, but I wondered if it would bother me having it right there where I prepare meals. The more I thought about it, the more I realized having your laundry room right off your kitchen would essentially increase your productivity. Think about it – in between chopping vegetables or waiting for water to boil, you could be folding your load of whites!

My laundry room is in the basement and although our home is not huge, it feels like a mile away. And sometimes I just postpone walking down to fold the laundry, and then all of a sudden it’s a week later and my load is still sitting in the dryer. It’s terrible!

Perhaps if my washer and dryer were in my closet, or at least on the first floor hidden in a closet, I’d be less lazy with my laundry and more proficient.

What about you? Is your laundry room in a different place like your kitchen or your clothes closet?

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Excerpt from: sixdifferentways.com

Austin, Texas based designer Brooke M Davis designs furniture using digital tools like CAD and a CNC machine. While they are often used for manufacturing and mass production, these tools can be used for other things like Davis’ Tablescape No.

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Tablescape No. 1 by Brooke M Davis Design

Portuguese designer Tó Martins is doing something with old washing machine parts you’d never have expected: he’s making lamps out of them . Using old washing machine drums, Martins creates a lamp — called Rewash — whose shade can be customized with just about anything you’d like. So far, he’s made them with fake grass, cork, measuring tapes, steel roses and tons of other materials

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Rewash Lamp

The DeLonghi kMix collection will totally make you want to cook, or at least spend time in your kitchen. The line includes five products: 5-cup coffee maker, 10-cup coffee maker, pump-driven espresso machine, tea kettle, and 2-slice toaster, available in eight eye-popping  hues — green, magenta, blue, orange, yellow, red — as well as glossy black or white. They look good enough to eat. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook . © 2011 Design Milk | Posted by Marni in Home Furnishings , Technology | Permalink | No comments

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DeLonghi kMix Collection

Materials: Ikea Hemnes buffet, 4 Branas, a wood bottle holders to assemble Description: My husband love wine, but we don’t have any bottle holders in our kitchen, so we decide to transform our Hemnes buffet. 1- We buy a cheap wood bottle holders and I paint the parts of the furniture as white as the Ikea buffet 2- I was lucky to find the exact dimension of the buffet, instead you can easly cut the wood. 3- Then I put the back and the front parts of the wood bottle holders into the Hemnes buffet…

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Hemnes buffet with bottle holders

The Huddle Tables by Matthew Kroeker features Robertson machine screws meticulously arranged into three effective bowl shapes, each being permanently fixed to their base counterparts. The designer explains that “the screw, perhaps the definitive object of utility, is transformed into something elegant and impulsive; a far stretch from the original purpose of these fasteners. Now, these tightly-knit arrays of screws are given the task of holding your everyday objects, but also content being left untouched and only observed.” The prototypes are made from FSC-certified walnut veneer and formaldehyde-free plywood. The screws are made by being fastened by hand and then painted with a powder-coated finish. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook

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Huddle Tables by Matthew Kroeker