Toss your not-so-clean clothes onto Simone Giertz’s laundry chair

Do you have A shirt or pants that isn’t quite clean but also not smelly enough to put in the hamper yet? You probably just threw them on that chair, right? You know, the chair in your bedroom or living room that looks like it spent most of its life holding up a pile of clothes instead of being a usable seat.

This is the global shared experience carried out by the inventor W YouTube star Simone Gertz He wanted to solve it. To do this, she built a laundry chair, intended for holding laundry and It works as a chair at the same time. No more compromises.

“You can relate that to my reluctance to change behavior,” Gertz says. “This was one of those projects where I was like, ‘I can’t believe this isn’t a thing already.’

After making a video Chair construction Over a year ago, Giertz turned it into an actual product you could buy. It started as a Kickstarter campaign —Launched today, it’s already funded— although Gertz says the plan was to make the product regardless of whether the campaign was successful or not. The starting price is $1,100, though there are discounts for backers (the first 50 get free shipping).

“It’s a little chore on everyone’s side, and it’s an eyesore, and something you have to deal with,” Gertz says. “I had it on my idea list for a long time — something that honored the chair’s function of holding clothes, acknowledged that, and actually tried to do the job right.”

The laundry chair actually looks and functions like a chair, the main difference is that the armrests are designed in a rotatable semicircle. The ball bearing mechanism allows you to rotate the rail smoothly, like a lazy Susan. Flip it forward, and you can hang clothes over the rod as you would on a clothesline or drying rack. Rotate the rail back, and clothes slide neatly behind the chair, out of sight, leaving the seat free. Whether loaded with laundry or not, the chair looks very nice, with a solid hardwood frame and short cotton upholstery.

Gertz has built a following on innovative, wild creations, e.g The robot that spews soupor that time it turned a Tesla EV into a car Small truck. Over the years, she She shifted her focus From building “shitty robots” to creating really useful projects, e.g Screwdriver ring Or comic madness All-white puzzle With one piece missing.