Summer is more or less officially over, and with that comes the end of drying laundry outdoors and the beginning of finding handy spots to dry clothes indoors. It's no easy feat, particularly if you have a small utility room with limited room for a clothes horse, but there's a traditional feature making a resurgence: the laundry maid.
Pulley-operated clothes airers are no new discovery, but why fix something that isn't broken? This clever laundry system originated in the late 18th century as an efficient way of drying laundry while keeping it out of the way, but lost popularity when the tumble dryer came to be.
