Spring has arrived and things are starting to green up - especially the yogurt at the back of your fridge. Spring cleaning and organising come hand in hand like cheese and sandwich. And as you’re cleaning the house, you really really want it squeaky clean - and how exactly do you pull all that stuff? We challenged ourselves to think about those staples you’ll reach for every day, and messy junk in your kitchen drawer you’ll actually be proud of once they’re pleasingly organised. To help you declutter, we bring you some of the best storage, cleaning and organisation options from our warehouse. Some of these options are sleek, stylish and most importantly functional. Items most people should have and how these items could help you be inspired by your home. Here's our Top 10 Ideas to purge the mess at home:
|1. Designate a resting hotspot for your utensils
We’ve long been fans of Joseph Joseph’s clever innovative products, designed to make kitchen tasks effortless. This CounterStore organiser will transform your countertop into a pleasant area in your kitchen. The material offering is minimal; ideal for small counter tops and uses minimal space. Perfect as a home starter pack. This sleek organiser fits your knives (with knife slots that can fit up to 20 cm long knife blades), gadgets, utensils - all in one place. Guess what? It even fits a non-slip chopping board at the back. A great way to hide your chopping board and create ample space on the countertop. #minimalistdream right here.
|2. Your flowers and plants will thrive like there’s no tomorrow
Some common misconception about composting is that it's too complicated, too messy, and downright smelly. Well, not if you manage it well. Some of the easiest ways you can start your composting process is by setting up a container, a tin bucket, a crock in the kitchen or with our personal favourite - the Appetito Compost Bin. There’s a good reason why composting is good - it saves water and assists the soil to hold moisture and reduce water runoff. You’re basically doing the environment a huge favour with recycling organic resources all while conserving landfill space. The Appetito Compost Bin, this oh-so-stylish camouflage all that dirty smelly scrap with it’s simple yet functional aesthetic. It has a 5L capacity with a carbon filter to eliminate odour. It’s also stainless steel. Materials to collect for your compost pile:
- Vegetable scraps
- Eggshells
- Coffee Ground
- Fruit Scraps
- Dry Leaves
- Grass and plant clippings
- Dry wood or Bark chips
- Shredded newspaper
- Sawdust from untreated wood
|3. Spin the washing machine to 100% organic and waste-free laundry task
|4. Setup your own DIY Home Recycling Station
Back in the day, many of us will always only have one disposal mechanism growing up: The trash bin. It’s usually the common trash bin that has only one lid where you throw everything and anything. (Generally, not thinking twice about the environment.) Trash bins these days have evolved. They are now more modern, fancy, and some are sophisticated. As much as these household items have evolved, our disposal habits have too. We now separate our trash, bottles, plastics and food scraps for compost. Every kind of waste needs it’s own container with different sizes; large for throwing trash, medium for recycling and small for compost. In addition to your compost bin, Brabantia Built-In-Bin Sort & Go is a skinny bin with 430 x 550 x 360mm. We love how this system comes with a supporting bracket, so the bins can hang off the floor leaving a smaller kitchen footprint. It’s just below countertop height and you can pretty much hang them under-the-sink cabinet door or on a wall. The design is simple and won’t ever fight with the rest of the kitchen decor because you can choose your bin colours and sizes to suit your kitchen style. This Brabantia bin is very much ideal for apartment living.|5. Joseph Joseph can help you let go and declutter
If you’ve jumped on doing right by your kitchen drawer bandwagon, like a lot of us here at Everten, you’ve probably gotten the itch to throw out unnecessary utensils that you don’t need. Before we get to introduce to you what Joseph Joseph can do, you have to first be true to yourself (and your cutleries) by learning to let go. Meaning, anything you haven’t used in a long time, you don’t need. We’d like to think that Joseph Joseph’s DrawerStore knife and cutlery organiser will help inspire you in that department. We’ll tell you why. This organiser is ingenious. It comes with raised layered cutlery slots for easy stacking and segmenting of your cutleries by type. This way you’ll find it easy to reach for the cutlery you want without scrummaging through like a mouse. For each slot you can fit about 10 pieces, meaning you can fit your butter knives and fork steak knives in one slot with a good wiggle room. The knife slots are a match made in heaven too cause it can fit 9 pieces of knives.|6. Let your type A personality shine loud and clear through a neat pantry
A general good practice is to assess what you have in the pantry despite the variety of size. Spices don’t have a long shelf-life, condiments expire and overlooking your ingredients just means you’re losing money here and there that can accumulate. Besides, you might not know what you have lingering in your pantry! And an organized pantry will help you find what you need easily - minus the chaos. We’d like to suggest the pantry must-have; the Oxo Pop Containers. The 200ml set of 4 helps keep your food fresher and your pantry organised. Each container has a functional push-button mechanism to seal airtight and release. To create even more space in the pantry, the containers are easily stackable and can be neatly organised in your cabinet drawers. With neat stacking and proper storage, it’s well-rounded corners can make pouring so much easier. The lid comes apart very easily so you can thoroughly clean.
|7. If you can manage your plants, you can organise your garden tools
We’re saying that as much as you love your garden and the flowers and plants in them, you need to give some attention to the tools that made them so pleasant. Have you seen Stephanie Alexander’s Waxed Canvas Garden and Tool Bag? If you’re looking to organise your garden, plus have a pleasant and easy gardening session, this bag is a perfect gardening tool vessel and storage. We love that it has a wide interior with 8 exterior pockets to store as many gardening tools as you need. It’s convenient to carry around the garden and super easy to store or hang the bag in your garden shed once you're done using them. Definitely, more space in the garden shed.|8. Invert your spoils into soil with this smart composter
Like a new pair of running shoes, this composter might actually get you to compost your spoils more often than you ever thought you would in your lifetime. It’s handsome, but let us enlighten you. Unlike the Appetito Compost Bin it’s not stainless steel, but it’s made from silicone, making it easy to invert the bin inside out so you can easily dispose your scraps into the soil. This is our most favourite feature of all. So if previously you had a compost bin that needs a bag lining and then having to clean the bin itself after, you won’t have to do that anymore if you have this bin. The adjustable airflow lid helps to control ventilation level, making it easy to create rich compost and it doesn't have odour retention, even after a few days of leaving the scraps in.
|9. Sinkware details are just as important as cleaning
Although most of us fancy proponents of stocking beautiful things around the sink to make our dish duties a much more bearable (a plant or three, a pretty soap dispenser and maybe even a nice piece of water-proof art). Evidently, it is possible to go overboard. Too much stuff around the sink can cause clutter and things falling out of place, eventually creating more dirt. As much as your dishes have a rack to dry, your dish brush, soap and damp cloth needs a place to drain all that water too. Of course, without leaving it lying around the sink. Joseph Joseph sink caddy set is designed with practical functions and allows for a neat and systematic cleaning. The set includes a large draining plate to place your wet sponge, plus you can dismantle for easy cleaning.
|10. Wipe clean your dishes with charcoal-infused dishcloths
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