'Half-dirty' clothes always end up on a chair—so this woman built a genius chair designed exactly for that

At times, most of us have been guilty of throwing our half-dirty clothes onto chairs. This usually happens when someone returns home after a long and tiring day at work. Even though there aren’t any major health-related risks associated with this poor living habit, it can lead to the accumulation of dust, the spreading of germs, and a messy appearance. To solve this problem, a woman who describes herself as an “inventor and breaker of things” created a three-circle seat. The San Francisco-based content creator, Simone Giertz—who goes by @simonegiertz on YouTube—attempted to find a handy solution for clothes that are not dirty enough for the laundry basket but not clean enough to be stored with the rest of the clothes in one’s closet. A widely circulated video showed the influencer building a practical replacement for her somber and inconvenient bedroom resting spot.

The woman in her mid-30s likened her cushioned lounge single-seater to a hassle in her life. “I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you have a chair in your bedroom where you throw the clothes that are too dirty to go back into the drawer but too clean to go into the laundry; if you don’t, then congratulations on your perfect life. I have one of those chairs, and I don’t like it,” Giertz told her 2.79 million subscribers on the video-sharing platform. She went on to blame the wooden piece for always making the bedroom corner look messy. The innovator unveiled her step-by-step process for designing a DIY chair specifically designed for throwing laundry onto it. Giertz had grown tired of using a regular chair for her not-so-clean clothes.

Instead of settling for the centuries-old craftsmanship of traditional furniture, she decided to incorporate a giant "Lazy Susan" to build her own modern chair with a movable rail around it. Notably, a “Lazy Susan” refers to a rotating tray typically placed on a table to easily distribute food among diners. Giertz was further seen undertaking tiring and extensive woodworking, attempting to create a one-stop solution where people could sit, relax, or meditate, while simultaneously having a place to hang clothes they weren’t emotionally ready to throw into the hamper.

“I think it’s such a neat solution to an everyday problem, and I just love the idea of designing not for the perfect day but for the normal day,” the innovator was heard saying in the nearly fourteen-minute footage. Throughout the entire process of creating the prototype made purely from plywood, Giertz did not use a computer at any stage for assistance.

From designing to materializing to crafting the chair, everything was done with sheer dedication and hard work. The content creator successfully built a chair with a beautiful red-colored round seat and a backrest. Notably, the most unique feature of the furniture was its armrest, which could swivel forward to hang clothes on it and then swivel back behind to hide them. Giertz concluded by presenting an idea to her 1.7 million viewers for turning her innovation into a full-fledged commercialized product.

The wholesome video recorded from her workshop drew widespread attention on social media, which included 137,000 likes and countless reactions.  Among them, @DrDavidReilly remarked, “Thank you for publicly affirming that there is such a thing as ‘half-dirty’ clothes and that I am not weird for reusing clothes more than one wear.”

“That chair ended up looking very stylish, in spite of the clothing on the back. Far better than I expected,” @meagain3876 lauded. “This could be an opportunity for an insane Simone Giertz x Ikea collab. I would totally buy this chair,” @noahgeerdink5144 suggested.

You can follow Simone Giertz (@simonegiertz) on YouTube for more innovative and lifestyle content.