When my mom moved into her current house, she showed me what she thought to be one of the coolest, most unique features of her new home: a laundry chute in the upstairs bathroom. She’d bought the ...

Laundry chutes once felt like the coolest invention of all time. Built-in drawers would lead to long slides that shot laundry down a floor or two and spat it into a laundry room, removing the ...

Perhaps the most tedious part of doing laundry—itself a tedious chore—is struggling down the stairs with a heavy and cumbersome hamper overflowing with stinky clothes. If you’ve done this on a weekly ...

I think my laundry chute is a quaint reminder that my house was built in the 1920s. Plus, I get a kick out of opening that little door and sending my dirty laundry on its way to the basement.