- Two cheap, chic, and French Vintage Inspired Laundry Hampers.
- One DIY Project: Wire Laundry Hamper
- One Off-the-Shelf: Industrial Style Laundry Hamper
The lowly laundry basket can be an object of vintage, chic, even French beauty. The metal laundry basket probably is the best at effecting this lovely vintage look, but a cloth-covered, industrial style container on wheels can give the same effect. Here are two options for a French Vintage Inspired Laundry hamper. Both cheap, chic, sturdy, and large enough to hold three or four loads of laundry.
I don’t exactly know what vintage French laundry baskets look like. They might, at one time, been made of wicker or rattan,
Chic Wire and Cloth Laundry Hampers
I actually used to use a large basket as a laundry hamper, until the bottom rotted away because of leaving damp clothes in there. I bet that’s why they started making plastic ones. Your average plastic laundry basket does not have vintage, chic beauty. I guess that’ why I used a real basket.
Wire and cloth are more practical. The wire and cloth baskets, or hampers, can give a chic, “I’m going to the laundromat in Paris in the 1960s feeling.” I don’t know if French people going to the laundromat in the 1960s felt chic and stylish, but these types of laundry hampers or baskets are a great way to add some attitude to your laundry room décor.
Here is the video about two practical, big, inexpensive, and très chic options for a French vintage inspired laundry hamper.
If you prefer to read, the transcript follows right below the video.
Transcript
Hey this is Kathleen at oldworldfarmhouse.com and today I wanted to talk about chic French laundry hampers, so let’s go!
I always wanted a laundry hamper like these ones, like when you went to the laundromat, if you went to the laundromat back in the day with the cool wheels and the baskets. So vintage and sweet. There’s just something so, like, urban cool about it. Um, I just love them they’re like, poetic.
Laundry Hampers to Feel Like 1960s Paris
So I wanted something like that for my house, and I didn’t want to like, you know, steal one from the laundromat. And I don’t know where they source them from. There’s probably some supplier where you have to buy like a thousand at a time. I don’t know.
A few years ago I read an article on Apartment Therapy. It was a tutorial for this laundry hamper.
It said, you want a laundry hamper that makes you feel like Jean Seberg in 1960s Paris, but you can’t buy one, so you’re going to have to make one. I was hooked. I was like, I want to feel like Jean Seberg in 1960s Paris when I do laundry. So I marched myself out to Lowe’s and I got chicken wire and this little wooden thing and some little wheels on casters and I followed the directions and I have been using this as my laundry hamper ever since.
Vintage Industrial Style Laundry Hamper
Since I made these hampers, I actually made two of them, I’ve always kind of looked around for budget chic industrial laundry hampers. And I never really found anything that I thought was any good, design-wise or price-wise. Until I recently found this cool one by Seville Classics. And it is actually really reasonably priced. And I’ve been watching it for a while, and it was on sale on Overstock for like 60 bucks. No shipping charges. But I’ve seen them often for about that price, and I put it together.
I just wanted to do a quick video and share with you these two really budget-friendly options for a chic 1960s-in- Paris style laundry hamper so you can feel fabulous while you’re doing your laundry. Because I know I like to. I will definitely link out to the Apartment Therapy tutorial they did on this one.
French Vintage Inspired Laundry Hamper Made From Apt. Therapy Tutorial
I just want to show you, um, how it works. So this is from the Army-Navy store. It’s a laundry bag that just lifts. When I take this downstairs to dump it in our laundry I just lift this out, dump the laundry in, and then I bring it back and I put it back into its wire container. You don’t actually want your clothes touching the wire because, you know, they’ll snag. Um, yeah, and then it just kind of rests in there. For a while I had one that had a drawstring top, and that worked really nicely, too, but it wore out finally. And then you can also, I just i pull it around from place to place like that.
I can’t remember exactly how much I spent when I made these. I made two of these back in 2016. If memory serves, I think they each cost about $20 in raw materials from Lowe’s. And then of course buying the liner is going to be an extra expense depending on where you get that. It could be any soft laundry bag.
French Vintage Inspired Laundry Hamper – Industrial Style
And then if you don’t feel like doing all of that DIY leg work, this is the cute little Seville Classics industrial style laundry hamper. it – like I said it was about 60 bucks on Overstock.com I’ve seen it for sale lots of places, including you can buy direct from Seville Classics, which is pretty cool. I just assembled this the other day. I am a completely hopeless klutz when it comes to assembling anything, just ask my husband. I got this together in under 10 minutes. It was super easy, and I love – I am loving it. I love the look of it. The wheels glide nicer, there’s no pokey metal things. So as much as I love my DIY project, I’m also really fond of my Seville Classics.
So there you have it, if you’re looking to feel chic and Parisian when you do your laundry, here are two great budget friendly and super practical options for laundry hampers. They’re also really big and hold a lot of stuff.
I hope you enjoy this and I hope you get some use out of it. Happy folding!
If you love things chic and French, you’ll also enjoy my other posts, Soft French Country Color Palette and French Country Style: Give Your Furniture Parisian Patina.