How to tidy up your house?

PROPERLY TIDYING UP YOUR HOME DOES NOT NECESSARILY RHYME WITH HASSLE. WE GIVE YOU ALL THE KEYS TO TIDY UP YOUR HOUSE, QUICKLY DONE WELL!

The “3 boxes and 1 bag” method

Everything ugly or useless does not deserve to be kept and even less to find a place in our cupboards. For quick and efficient storage, we remember the rule of  3 boxes and 1 garbage bag. The idea is to take the items one by one and place them in the corresponding crate. A choice? The  “put away here” crate (our favorite jeans...), the “put away somewhere else” crate (the toys found in the bathroom...), or the “give or sell” crate (the 3 e foie gras service offered as a wedding gift ...), or in the trash(the old mismatched mustard glasses). No need to devote a whole day to it, tidying up can be done little by little: 15 minutes a day, twice a week, that's always enough!

The 3 laws of storage

The concept of "room for expansion"

Allow  30% more space when buying a "container" to store sweaters (for example, because it goes with everything). Otherwise, with each purchase or gift, you will have to start from scratch. The space obtained also gives a "cleaner" appearance and facilitates storage... And above all, we know what's in our drawers and cupboards. 

Storage and the law of proximity

It makes sense to store butcher knives in the kitchen drawer, under the worktop. And the toothbrush by the sink. This is EXACTLY the law of proximity to storage. In short, to save time, we put the objects near the place where we use them...  and we gather them: brushes and combs, pens and papers, telephone and directory. This is the case, for example, of children's markers who only draw in the kitchen, magazines read in the toilets, and keys seized at the entrance...

Tidying up well also means following the  theory of movements

The more you use certain objects, the easier they should be to pick up. How many movements do you make... to drop a toothbrush into the glass placed near the sink? Only one. How about grabbing the cake pan that's under the pile at the top of the kitchen cupboard? Take the stepladder, open it, go up and down the first three dishes without falling, the next three without dropping them, grab the cake plate, replace the others, put the stepladder away... At least 12. If 'we use this dish once or twice a year, it's perfect. On the other hand, it is better to keep everyday plates close at hand. The more movements it takes to put an object away, the less one dares to put it away.  

Divide to organize better

We learn to share space. To avoid mixing genres (the heart-shaped cookie cutter in the pretty Limoges cup), we use tricks by finding containers or separations. For example, in a large cake mold, we store cookie cutters and pastry molds and, next to it, we place an iron box containing the treasures of pastry (nuggets, yeasts, candied fruit, etc.). In a pretty wooden box, we store tea bags and infusers not far from the pretty tea service. You can also partition the drawers with cardboard boxes, line the shelves with jars, the children's rooms with colored boxes, and the living room with baskets. There's something for everyone, it's useful, practical, and pretty.

The waltz of labels for efficient home storage

We often think that labels are only used to find a stored object. Not only. The label is an infallible way for everyone to know where to store things. Even Charlotte, 4 years old, can store her socks in a drawer where a photo of a sock has been pasted beforehand. Embroidered, painted, photographed, calligraphed, drawn, printed, cut out... the label can be creative! 

The parable of the patera

Once all the spaces are arranged according to the previous lessons, all that remains is to be attentive... There is always a place where the mess attracts the mess, for example, the pretty chair in the entrance, covered, every evening, with a big pile of coats. If you fix it just above, or next to, a series of solid coat hooks, it will surely return to its original purpose. Just as the small table in the entrance will look tidier if you install a basket there (to throw away the superfluous) and a basket intended to receive the papers to be kept. It will change from the pile of flyers, empty envelopes, and invoices coming from the letterbox.

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