I was always conscious of basic design principles for legibility when I made flyers for library programs. Unfortunately, our color printer didn't always match the hues I saw on the screen, so I had to be extra-careful about contrast for legibility. Don't combine red and green shades in a way colorblind readers can't see. Typeface matters for more than just aesthetics, and script or otherwise stylized letters should be used sparingly, if at all.

The bigger the household, the bigger the laundry mess, and it seems to be exponential rather than linear. For a family home, a dedicated laundry space is a must, and its layout should be more than an afterthought tucked into a corner. For the Mother Thing's house, the layout was determined by the prior owner's builder long before our family moved west. It's an awkward skinny room that's just... there. Poor access. No room for storage until we added shelving, and even that is less than ideal. For such an essential chore and such expensive appliances, people tend to treat them as an afterthought.