subject: Dry in Style – Modern Washing Lines for Funky Houses [print this page] Dry in Style Modern Washing Lines for Funky Houses
How can washing lines be anything except dull? When they're specifically designed for modern living, is how. These days a person can get devices designed to dry his or her washing in the most economical of fashions, or the smallest of spaces not to mention traditional type clothes drying kit that brightens up the garden in hundreds of funky little ways.
How about, for example, a colourful cover that brings a little freshness to one's outside spaces? With our modern world so dominated by greys and browns, a bright green cover for one's washing lines instantly makes the garden feel a little more "natural". Don't forget that the washing line is obviously unnatural, when in use, constructed mainly of steel and wire: with good coloured covers, the unused washing line is effectively hidden, camouflaged so that the greens and bright colours of the garden can reassert themselves.
There are plenty of practicalities hidden in the bright material of a modern washing line cover, too. Unattended and unloaded, washing lines have a habit of spinning in sudden gusts of wind or getting caught on tree branches. Next thing anyone knows horrible wires all over the garden and something that looks like a vast metal crane fly collapsed on the lawn. A simple coloured cover and all of that is a thing of the past. Good washing line covers, like the widely used Brabantia Liftomatic (sold on the great Massive Housewares web site, among others) are easy to put on and take off, weather resistant and fully protective. It's not all about fun funky colours washing lines get a lot of flak from the outdoor environment, which rots their cords and fills their oiled parts with dirt and gunge. A decent cover protects against rust, particulate obstructions to moving pieces, and deterioration in the line fibre itself: ensuring a long and useful life for the thing.
The washing lines themselves can be pretty cool, too. Not every washing line is the old spinning top model we've described above no, these days a person can get washing lines designed to fit with pretty much every kind of lifestyle and home. There's no use having a spinning garden washing line in a top floor flat, for example: and that's where the dedicated indoor washing line comes into the picture. The indoor washing line allows users who perhaps either don't have access to an outside space, or just have a very small garden, to use indoor drying as a viable alternative. Other space saving efforts on the part of the washing line manufacturers include wall mounted washing lines, which work in exactly the same was as standard outdoor ones except the don't spin and their lines are mounted on a wall bracket rather than a pole.
Like most things these days, there's a washing line for every lifestyle and a size of that washing line to fit every conceivable living arrangement. Good news for anyone who's fed up with taking their laundry to a pay drier. No matter what they look like, or where they are intended to go, washing lines offer a drying quality and speed unmatched by even the best tumble drier.
