Clothes rails are essential items in life, and in modern decorations, hand-cranked and electric clothes rails are the mainstream choices. When installing clothes rails, we usually choose the size according to the bay of the balcony and consider the direction of the bay of the balcony for installation. Sometimes, when there is only one balcony, the installation of clothes rails may affect the light and ventilation of the living room, but this is unavoidable.
However, I have been using clothes rails at home for more than 10 years, and it was only after being inspired by a friend's house that I realized that there was a problem with the original decoration arrangement, even though there was only one balcony at home. Actually, the clothes rail blocking the living room light doesn't make much of a difference to my house, because we are used to washing and drying clothes at night and taking them off during the day. However, a friend's house showed a different way of installation, which was to install the clothes rail along the depth of the balcony. In this way, the clothes rails are installed on both sides of the balcony and the wall is used to shield them, which avoids the impact on the living room.
Although this installation method makes the length of the clothes rail shorter, which affects the number of clothes that can be hung, the friend said that the clothes rails on both sides are enough for normal clothes changes. For the situation that seasonal clothes need to be dried, they will build a retractable hanger on the ground to solve the problem of insufficient clothes to dry. Of course, since my friend's family chose to install clothes rails in depth, they naturally abandoned the design of wall cabinets on both sides when decorating. Although this affects some storage space, it has no real impact on life due to the large number of cabinets in the home.
It wasn't until I looked at the installation at my friend's house that I realized that my home had made a mistake when installing the clothes rail more than a decade ago. If you knew earlier that you could use this method, you wouldn't have to dry your clothes every time you wash them, which is expensive and cumbersome, and it's not as effective as natural drying. Therefore, the next time I decorate, I will definitely choose this more practical way.
The choice of clothes rails is easy to mislead, and many people first consider the number of clothes to hang, and ignore the problems that may be brought by the later stage. Therefore, when installing, we should consider comprehensively, especially if there are few family members, choosing the in-depth installation method may be a good choice.