French houses, unlike british houses, don't appear to have boot rooms. Okay many british houses don't have them either but most have an utility, a place for washing machines, wet dogs and dirty gubbings alike. Never worked for me, two opposing needs lumped into one room. Too many crisp clean sheets soiled by muddy paws and earth clad floors.
In France they have the baunderie, easy to remember ' sounds like ....laundry', throw back to my teaching days there. It more often than not is situated upstairs, convenient for discarded clothes, not convenient for dirty boots and wet dogs, hence the obvious segregation. Unfortunately mine is rather a large room, unlike back in blighty where it fitted a machine and ironing board, and as in all large families there is an accumulation of stuff and that stuff must be housed. Not in an attic where stuff never needed again and xmas decs live, things that may be useful stuff. Material for projects planned, not done, grown out clothing that will another conveniently birthed son adorn. Mouses live protected from killer cats. Every house needs an indoor garage in my opinion.
So stuff therein accumulates and spreads, gets rummaged through and dropped. Frankly it all ends up in one big,messy muddle that yours truly has to sort on a too regular basis. Put off for far too long today it will be once more tackled and this time it will stay organised.
She doth jest of course!
A brave before photo.
So no backing out now
Might need to do some ironing?
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