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I'm going to tell you why your bedroom is an unholy mess: because of a lack of design, and because of your clothes.
What do you do with clothes you've worn once? They're not quite dirty, so you can't put them in the hamper, but they're not quite clean, so you can't put them back in the dresser. So you end up throwing them on a chair, your bed, or a slow-moving pet. And since you're not going to wear the same thing tomorrow that you did today, the pile soon grows (and if you've gone with option three, your pet dies).
People have been designing beds, dressers and endtables for hundreds of years; now someone needs to design a new piece of furniture for the bedroom, something that will air out several days worth of clothes without looking like some monster that sweatshop workers have nightmares about. You could call it a Clotheshorse or something like that. (To the Core higher-ups reading this, you guys feel like sponsoring a design competition?)
Until this piece of furniture is willed into existence, apartmenttherapy readers have come up with some solutions here. But c'mon, with all the useless crap being designed, here's an opportunity to actually design something truly new and useful.
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I think that your solution has already been invented, and has been around for at least a few hundred years: it's called a clothes valet. A quick search on Amazon will turn up a nice one. Really, it seems to me like instead of re-inventing the wheel, this one should be tweaked to make it hold more than just a suit: a full rotation of pants and sweaters/shirts/whatever. I'm sure that somebody cleverer than me could do it quite well.
If you have closet bar or back of the door space, just hang sets of worn clothes on hangers and air them out there, with good air circulation, which is good for you and your home anyhow. But have enough socks so you don't have to wear them again, please. Maybe there's a market for forced-air ventilation kits for dresser drawers...
This was the exact topic that I explored for my grad project back in 2001.
check it out.
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?name=tim+chong&sort_by=1&c=1&portfolio_id=6946&individual_id=11394
I just read through the thread over at AT. I love it as I've never found a good solution to the half-dirty storage issue. Walk-in closets eliminate the need for this type of storage for some people. But for those of us with no walk in and very little space... I'd love a nice simple clean solution!
Um... you wear your clothes more than once?
There is one solution of the problem: people just have to eradicate their laziness.