Interior Expert Shares Simple Trick to Dry Your Bed Sheets Without Using Power-Hungry Tumble Dryers

Metcalfe, who founded French Bedroom, points out how large surface areas are essential for laundry to dry quickly indoors. She suggests utilizing the hallway banisters by draping wet linens around them, maximizing space for the fabric to breathe and eradicating chances of molds. "Bedding needs a large surface area to dry quickly,” she said. The entrepreneur added that some people use an airer but these are often inefficient for larger sheets. “You could also create a beautiful scent by using lavender fabric softener in the washing machine as this will act as a diffuser whilst the sheets dry,” she shared. 

Doors have great potential for indoor drying of laundry, notes Metcalfe. However, simply hanging sheets or clothes from the door could do more harm to the fabric than good. She suggests using adhesive hooks in unused rooms like guest rooms or personal rooms during the day, to hang clothes on. She recommended, “Place hooks on the backs of doors and even walls to create an internal washing line as this will provide an open space above the floor, then hang up washing to dry.” Rearranging the room for the greater convenience of drying is also advised. 

While we desperately try drying our laundry indoors during the winter months, some of us often come up with our own genius hacks, like using the radiators at home.  Radiators, as tempting as they might seem, are not good alternatives to tumble dryers. Metcalfe explained that this practice can cause the rust particles from the radiator to transfer into the bedsheets, posing a massive health hazard. It can also affect the quality of the linens as the small particles will be difficult to remove. “A layer of clothes over a radiator will also reduce its efficiency in heating up the room and raise bills,” the expert noted.