where do you keep all your spare linen, towels etc? We've just had an extension and have removed ours but am now left with a huge laundry bag full of spare linen! I plan to store the spare bedding in the relevant bedrooms, tea towels etc in a drawer in the kitchen, but what about the towels? There is room in our new utility room for a tall, built in cupboard but I think that might be better used as a cleaning cupboard with room for brooms, the ironing board etc. I could possibily put them in a cupboard in the spare bedroom/study but I think husband has earmarked that for all his work manuels!

What do you do with yours???

Thanks.

You can get/make a towel thing with a long piece of wood vertical and horizontal small ones across just enough apart to fit a rolled towel up in.
If I'm short on space if we move I'll be fashioning one and putting it on the back of a door

Otherwise I just keep them in a drawer in the bedroom! I've never had one of these airing cupboard things!

Airing cupboards are fabulous!

I think the real question is - with no airing cupboard, where do you put the washing which is very nearly but not quite dry?

Get divan beds with storage drawers underneath. Towels on a towel rail in the bathroom so they are always at hand, or get one of those stools that has storage inside and keep them in there.

My airing cupboard is gone now that I have had immersion tank removed and the boiler is in there. There is still floor space but to be honest things just got shoved in there and only the top two layers of towels ever got removed and used.

I had this problem too, when I had my bathroom done last year.

All I do is keep my sheets and pillowcases in the blanket box I have in my room (which I got as extra storage and also for something to put my telly on)

The towels I keep in my spare room - I have a small shelf unit which I have hidden in the corner next to the wardrobe (it's just a cheap one from Homebase which I used to have in the bathroom to keep my lotions and potions on). I just fold them artistically(!) and keep them there - is very neat and tidy.

Hatster - what you do is not put them away until they are dry

I love having an airing cupboard. Yesterday the sheets were almost-not-quite dry from the line, and I could put them straight into the airing cupboard. Otherwise I'd have to put up the airing rack and put them on there.

We didn't have a proper airing cupboard in my last house, we kept sheets in a blanket box and towels in a cupboard.

We had a pine blanket box kept in our bedroom.

I have a large airing cupboard now (but no tank as it is a combi boiler so it is a 'boiler cupboard' more than anything) but previously all towels and linens were stored in the drawers of two double divan beds. Tucked out of sight, not taking up valuable space in cupboards and chests of drawers.

Divan bed with drawers - bedding in there.

Blanket box in the bedroom for towels. We have an airing cupboard, but that's used for storing other things.

As for drying clothes, that's what our tumble dryer is for!

The tumble drier costs (a lot of) money to run. Line-drying plus an airing cupboard is effectively 'free' .

Couldn't agree more Velvet but when you live in a flat (like we do), and have no access to outside drying, all you can do is use a tumble drier (condensing to prevent damp build up).

I guess so Percy, although my mum lives in a flat and has never had a tumbledrier.