Australia is blessed with great weather: high UV, warm, windy days, and mild winters (sorry, Hobart). Clothes airers will help you make the most of it — while saving you money on running a dryer. But the best design for you depends on your home and lifestyle. Space-saving laundry drying racks are an excellent choice for apartments, while a wall-mounted drying rack for laundry rooms makes more sense in larger homes. As a leading Aussie homewares store, we have the range and the know-how to help you pick the right airer for your space.

Foldable Clothes Airers: Practical & Versatile

In winter, it can seem like your clothes airer is always out. If you’re sick of seeing it in your living room, a foldable design might be for you. A foldable clothes airer has a whole host of benefits, the main one being that you can easily tidy it away. Those with small spaces will often collapse their airer when not in use, and store it under couches or behind doors. Plus, it’s lightweight enough to quickly carry to another room when guests come calling.

On bright days, a foldable airer can be taken outside; chase the sunny spots with ease! It’s also an easily transportable, temporary option, making it the best choice for renters. Check out our range of foldable options to find a colour, size, or material that speaks to you.

Wall-Mounted Drying Racks: For Long-Term Space Savers

If you’ve got a laundry room or a large bathroom (you lucky thing!), you have even more options. There are designs that screw directly into your walls, which is practical for designated laundry zones but less appealing for renters or those with European laundries.

Wall-mounted drying racks are a semi-permanent choice, meaning they’re always ready when you need them — no lugging required. This style of airer makes the most of your vertical space while leaving your floor space free. Plus, most wall-mounted drying racks fold back up to sit flush against the wall, making them quite discreet when not in use.

A wall-mounted unit is the ultimate clothes airer for wet weather; it sits higher where the air is naturally warmer, lives inside in the dry (no matter what the sky is doing), and is installed out of the way. The only real drawback is that you can’t make the most of a sunny day by taking it outside.

Hanger Airers: A Wild Card Option for Tight Spaces

So let’s say you’re living in a small home — you’ve got a European-style laundry and limited floor space — what can you do? You don’t have anywhere to install a wall-mounted drying rack, and you don’t want a foldable airer taking over what little room you have left. Indoor drying solutions for apartments don’t come more streamlined than a clothes hanger airer.

Ultra compact, collapsible, and lightweight, it’s easy to store in a cupboard with your other laundry accessories. It’s also small enough to hang in your European laundry, giving you back floor space while providing plenty of room to dry clothes. Simply position it anywhere you’d hang coat hangers, and start drying clothes, towels, and more — indoors or outdoors.

Picking the Right Material

With a range of clothes horses and racks as extensive as ours, you’ll have to consider one more factor before deciding on your perfect match: the material. Metal is often a popular choice, as it’s sturdy and can carry heavy loads. All clothes airers come into contact with moisture, even if you don’t take them outside, so either stainless steel or a coated metal will help prevent rust from forming (and potentially leaving stains on your clean clothes).

You also might like to consider the aesthetic of your space. A bamboo clothes drying rack is an eco-friendly choice that adds warmth to a boho or mid-century space, while a rose gold airer turns practical homeware into an attractive talking point. Who needs a sculpture when you could have a stunning clothes airer?

Making Your Choice

Need a quick checklist? Here’s what you need to know about clothes airers:

Live Better with Luca Living

Your homewares shouldn’t be an afterthought. Your clothes airer is left out in your space for days at a time — so you want it to be durable, easy to use, and visually appealing. From laundry trolleys and step ladders to storage boxes and serving boards, make everything in your home beautiful. Shop our homewares, storage, and lifestyle products online at Luca Living.

At Luca Living, we’re all about eco-friendly products that look great. Just check out our range of bamboo products and you’ll see how our homeware can beautify a house without costing the earth. With our bamboo products, you can give any room a rustic feel and feel zero guilt in the process. Imagine being greeted by a bamboo shoe rack at the front door — or handing over the hang-drying to a robust bamboo clothes horse. 

As a small family business, we keep Mother Earth close to our hearts. Plus, after 20 years of working in the building and design industry, we know a thing or two about sustainable homeware. So, without any further ado, let’s break down bamboo products and explore why they’re the eco-friendly choice for modern homes.

Are Bamboo Products Good for the Environment?

As an alternative to plastic and other nonrenewable resources, bamboo is highly sustainable. It is the world’s fastest-growing plant, gaining up to 90 centimetres in height every day, and its growth persists even after you cut it down. With such accelerated growth and relentless resilience, bamboo runs rings around the harvest turnover for trees and eliminates the need for replanting. It’s a solid timber substitute that minimises deforestation and allows us to manufacture products faster.

Not only does bamboo save trees and speed up the agroforestry process, but it also consumes less water, absorbs more carbon dioxide, and produces 35 per cent more oxygen than trees do. If you were to plant 10,000 square metres of bamboo, it could absorb as much as 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide in a single year! Bamboo is also biodegradable, meaning it will have reintegrated with the earth in hundreds of years’ time — unlike hard plastics, which will almost certainly outlive everyone currently alive.

Bamboo itself ticks many boxes, but whether it’s ‘good’ for the environment depends on how it’s farmed and processed. Because of its rapid growth, bamboo can easily become invasive, potentially compromising biodiversity in surrounding ecosystems. Most bamboo is also grown in China, and evidence suggests that Chinese bamboo farming prioritises profit over protecting the earth. Bamboo is often grown as a monoculture, meaning farmers will clear land in response to demand — and this can cause further issues with biodiversity.

Bamboo in its raw and unprocessed form is always a better choice — especially for kitchenware and furniture. At Luca Living, we don’t stock bamboo rayon, and many products in our range come with the ‘Made from Environmentally Sustainable Bamboo’ claim.

Our Most-Loved Bamboo Solutions

Looking to replace or upgrade a few old faithfuls? Luca Living has bamboo household items for every room and need. Please peruse the following curated (yet non-exhaustive!) catalogue.

Kitchen

Equip your kitchen and dining table with an abundance of bamboo household items. If you need kitchen storage, we’ve got you covered with drawer dividers, pantry shelves, spice racks, and even wine racks of various capacities and configurations. Hang mugs from the whimsical lines of modernism itself with our stylish bamboo mug tree. Dry and drain mugs and other dishes on our foldable bamboo dish rack. If there are any final drips, mop them up with the paper towel you have propped on our bamboo paper towel holder.

Dining

Smoothly transitioning from the kitchen to the dining table, you can wow guests with premium bamboo table-setting items. Present your piping-hot casserole without leaving a scratch on the table — thanks to our heat-resistant board. Throughout the meal, let them take a spin with one of our lazy Susans — whether you prioritise the surface area of our larger models or the compact storage capacity of our two-tiered version. When it’s all over, leave guests free to wipe up any remaining remnants by keeping our serviette holder handy.

Clothes Storage

Get your clothes and shoes in order with our bamboo storage solutions. Home is where you hang your hat — and with our bamboo coat and hat stand, you can claim that quite literally. As you return home to put your feet up, you can also put your shoes up with a spiffy bamboo shoe rack bench. As well as grey, our shoe rack benches are also available in blue and charcoal. 

If you have many family members, housemates, or pairs of shoes, you may appreciate the extra storage of our double-tiered model. Or, if you prefer to forgo the upholstery altogether, you can save a few bucks with our range of regular shoe racks.

Another aspect of clothes storage is having a place to hang them dry. Introducing our bamboo clothes airer: a foldable, 12-railed rack that can hold large loads and requires minimal storage space. 

Alternatively, we have another model that folds up like a concertina, saving even more space in your cupboard. Once the washing is dry, you can hang clothes in your wardrobe using one of our bamboo coat hangers.

Go Green with Luca Living

With all these bamboo home products, your home setup will be set for some time. From your open-plan kitchen to your closed-up closet, there’s a place in your home for all our eco-friendly products. Browse all the bamboo household items in our collection and invest in a stylish, modern look for your home that goes easy on Mother Earth. A smaller carbon footprint starts here.