How to minimize "housework"

Only when you are not bound by tedious housework can you really enjoy a beautiful home life.

There is a saying that the amount of housework is actually doomed when decorating.

When decorating, consider what it will be like to live in this house in the future. This is the secret of making home more "practical".

Here, I recommend a sumitomo @ Truman who knows what he is doing. Before the renovation, she made a clear goal: "I want to clean up my home in half an hour." She has been here for a year now. Looking back, she can say with certainty that this goal can really be achieved.

It mainly relies on a powerful storage system and various easy-to-clean design details. These ingenious ideas are not difficult to copy, and 90% families in China can learn from them. I hope they can also give you some inspiration.

The following content comes from Good Life APP user @ Truman.

Housing information

Unit type? Room 3

It covers an area of 73 square meters

Spend 200 thousand

Location: Beijing

Owner's situation

1, a small house with children and old people, with many books, clothes and toys;

2. In addition to the hostess herself, other family members still have a lot of room for improvement in returning goods;

3, do not pursue fashion, do not like obvious style;

I want a home that can be cleaned in an hour and a half.

family planning

family planning

Less load-bearing walls, good ventilation and good lighting. There is no perfect house. Now that you have bought them all, don't think too much about the shortcomings. Try to improve it in the design and decoration stage.

After buying a house, I pondered the layout and function for about half a year, and it was basically very detailed and clear, but I felt that I couldn't handle it alone because of the small area and many requirements. By chance, I saw J's home @ Jingjing Jingjing Jingjing Jingjing Jingjing Jingjing Jingjing Jingjing Jingjing 20 14

Basic requirements: it can be packed in half an hour. Function first, practical and comfortable.

Infrastructure: central air conditioning, fresh air, water softener.

Domestic helpers: dishwasher, sweeper, sweeper and vacuum cleaner.

Furniture: Unless otherwise specified, all are customized. Custom-made furniture is a magic weapon for the ultimate utilization of small apartment space. The material is mostly granular board, and the door panel is painted matte white. There is no handle on the wardrobe door, but the rebound device has been used for one year and the experience is good. A small number of furniture is covered with solid wood. What kind of solid wood is used and why? We will talk about it below.

Furniture should either fall to the ground, leaving no sanitary corner; Either the distance from the ground exceeds the height of the sweeper and sweeper, which needs to be considered before customizing the purchase of furniture.

This model includes wall renovation and furniture placement, which is clear at a glance.

Wall paint: small units do not refuse to use dark walls. There is no wallpaper in my house. Wall paint, wall tiles and windows are all warm gray in different shades. Yes, it seems that the white wall paint is also very light and warm gray.

Lighting: Except for the dining room, children's room and elderly room, chandeliers and ceiling lamps are used, the rest are spotlights, and induction lamp supplements local lighting. The lighting problem is more professional. What brand of lamp has several W color temperatures? Let's listen to the opinions of professionals.

Kick line: aluminum alloy is used, and the traditional kick line is too thick. The height of the long side of the L-shaped aluminum alloy skirting line is 30mm. I first bought a sample of 10mm to 60mm 1m, tried it and found that the one with a height of 30mm was the most satisfactory. The floor scraper cleans the floor, and the skirting line is 30mm high enough.

Ceiling: Except the porch and the master bedroom are sloping roofs, all other floors are 2500 stories high, so the ceiling is only partially suspended for fresh air and central air conditioning.

General layout of air conditioning and fresh air. When the children's room was finally installed, the air return port was slightly changed.

Decoration is a process that requires your own in-depth participation. For small units:

First of all, after understanding the products on the market, make clear the needs, and the more clear the needs of family members, the better;

Secondly, I like my style. As a middle-aged woman who has recognized what life is, reducing housework, making it easy to take care of it and being clean are more important than any style.

Of course, in the process of communication, you also need to give designers some accumulated pictures, at least to let people know your preferences;

Finally, in the process of decoration, we must pay attention to the progress (blood and tears), and realize the designer's design scheme, which needs to be strictly in accordance with the design and construction (of course, we must communicate with the construction personnel in advance whether the scheme can be realized).

Porch: Although the apartment is small, it has various functions.

The security door chose a small ventilation door, and the color and wall paint were unexpectedly coordinated. The master bedroom door is made into a secret door, which is usually closed to protect privacy. When the ventilation door of the security door is opened in spring and summer, it can form convection wind with the master bedroom window, and the natural wind is comfortable and cool. Wind chimes and baskets are attracted to the door by their own magnets. There are two small baskets at the door, one containing three sets of express delivery: scissors, paper cutter and garbled seal; One is holding a ruler and a pen.

On the left side of the entrance is the shoe cabinet. The shoes in season are put in the hanging cabinet and the shoes in season are put in the ground cabinet. Hanging cabinets and ground cabinets are divided into three layers, and two transparent shoe boxes can be stacked on each layer. When making the distance between cabinets, please find the size of the shoe box to make full use of the space.

There is an open compartment between the hanging cabinet and the ground cabinet, and induction lamp is installed below the hanging cabinet and above the open compartment.

The entrance is small and compact, so it is not easy to take pictures. Just use pictures to explain, simple and clear.

The right hand side of the entrance is the shoe changing area. There is a partition under the shoe changing card seat, which is enough space for a family to wear shoes that day. The coat I wore that day hung in the hook area. There is a partition above the hook area, where you can put some leisure bags for weekends, schoolbags for children's extracurricular tutoring classes and so on.

The material used in the shoe changing area is solid wood veneer, and the thickness of the particle board is not more than 20mm … But in view of the big man led by my family, why use glue? Because it should be the same as the checkerboard pattern … the side of the shoe changing area is equipped with a full-length mirror.

There is a locker between the shoe cabinet and the shoe changing area. The partition is divided into three layers and is movable. Put the suitcase on the ground floor. Put some shopping bags, badminton rackets and other sundries on the second floor. The top floor is the rest of the decoration materials (which can be used later).

There are several drawers on the right side of the locker connected to the shoe changing area. When you go out in summer, you can put mosquito repellent, antibacterial hand sanitizer, shoe polish, wet wipes for shoeshine, masks, umbrellas and so on.

Looking at the entrance from the guest restaurant, the full-length mirror not only perfectly blocks the messy shoe changing area, but also expands the space itself. Only two or three square meters of porch area, fully functional, a family of four three generations is enough. How satisfying!

Living room: one door can be used for two purposes to improve lighting.

Irregular-shaped guest restaurant, less than 20 square meters, has only a small window and poor lighting.

Glass doors are used between the kitchen and the living room to form a semi-open U-shaped kitchen, which can isolate oil smoke when cooking. It not only extends the sight of the guest restaurant, but also visually increases the area of the living room and the lighting of the living room. In spring and summer, there is convection between kitchen windows and living room windows. When the ventilation door of the security door is opened again, it will be ventilated on three sides, which is really relaxing and free.

When washing clothes, the sliding door can be pulled to the bathroom to block some sounds. So the state of the sliding door is: usually in the middle, etc., when washing, it is the door of the bathroom, and when cooking, it is the door of the kitchen.

Living room floor, kitchen and bathroom tiles, customized wooden furniture patterns, dining table, colors and patterns are similar, and the integration of living room and kitchen and bathroom floor has expanded the living room space (it took a lot of effort to do this).

It's hard to look comfortable. Only when you put your imagination of home into action can you know the importance of details. ?

The area in front of the living room booth was left blank, and there was no coffee table, because there was a coffee table in the previous home, and finally it became a sundry storage area. On the right hand side of the booth is a small open cabinet. You can put a water cup at hand to make up for the uselessness of the tea table.

Below the card holder is a drawer with rollers, and the solid wood veneer used for the card holder panel is still for bearing consideration. The two big drawers under the "living room" card stand are not only close to the children's room, but also easy to pull out, so they are children's toy storage boxes. Children can pull out toy storage boxes and play in this open space in the living room.

Although small huxing needs a lot of storage space, it is best to leave one or two empty areas, which are crowded and uncomfortable.

Opposite the booth area is the cabinet: all the vertical lines are high to the top, and the color is light, and the matte painted door panel does not compress the small living room space.

Among them, the middle part of the left side of the cabinet is an open compartment, which can be used to place some small items at will or as a display space; Household items are placed on TV cabinets and ground cabinets, heavy items with high frequency of use are placed below, and light items with low frequency of use are placed above.

The cupboard door near the bathroom is the housework area: ironing board, iron and poles for hanging ironed clothes can be pushed in when used up; The small side basket on the door panel can hold some accessories of vacuum cleaner and ironing board.

This kind of small hanging basket on the p.s cupboard door is particularly easy to use. Put the little things you often use in and open the cupboard door to get them. There are several cabinets in my kitchen and living room. The only thing to pay attention to is not to put heavy objects.

Dimension drawing of TV cabinet

Dining room: tatami expands multifunctional space

For compact small huxing, the function of the restaurant is not just dining. For my family, the restaurant is the soul of this family.

The dining table carries three meals a day, afternoon tea, I read books, the children do their homework, and my husband works at this dining table until late at night. There is a thin drawer under the desktop, where you can put stationery such as rulers and rubber pens.

The tatami area opposite the dining table is a good place to lie down after dinner, play games with children and read to them.

The two big drawers under the tatami are the places where the items needed for the above activities are stored;

Move the card seat in the living room, match the tatami in the dining room, move the dining table to the living room, and the tatami will become a small double bed …

The heating in the living room is under the window, wrapped in a small cabinet made of wood, and hollowed out in the middle of the windowsill stone above, with aluminum shutters, so that the heat of the heating can come out.

Schematic diagram of living room card seat and dining room tatami structure

If possible, when designing the storage space, there should be about 20% more space than the usual actual items, so as not to appear crowded.

Snack cabinet: This cabinet is an extension and supplement of the restaurant. My cups and saucers, tea sets, tea leaves and snacks are all put in this cupboard. The open compartment in the middle is a little water, so you can make a cup of coffee and a pot of tea.

The following cabinets are hung up and hung up, which is the home where the sweeping robot can automatically come back.

Kitchen: long U-shaped layout, small volume and large capacity.

Refrigerator, dishwasher, steaming oven, baking materials and tools are all placed in this kitchen of less than 6 square meters. The long U-shaped layout maximizes the area utilization.

After the refrigerator, some space in the dry area of the bathroom was borrowed, and the wall moved slightly in the direction of the bathroom to make the refrigerator flush with the ground cabinet.

On the right hand side of the door is a tall cabinet, which not only hides high water pipes, but also has amazing capacity. Hot pot, casserole, pressure cooker, kitchen paper, spare tableware and so on, which are rarely used at ordinary times, are all put in this high cabinet.

Large single tank, pull-out faucet, direct drinking machine, satisfactory for one year. An automatic induction lamp is installed under the hanging cabinet, so there is no blind spot for washing and cutting vegetables.

The food preparation area and the cooking area are high and low countertops, and the height of the countertops depends on the height of the person who cooks the most at home.

The countertop next to the high cabinet is the vegetable washing area, the L-shaped vegetable preparation area, and the cooking area and the vegetable lifting area on the left hand side. There is enough space.

Put the ingredients into the hanging cabinet above the vegetable washing preparation area; Put a three-piece set of water softener, water purifier, vegetable basin and dishwasher in the ground cabinet under the sink; Put the spare dishcloth and other small things that are not afraid of heat in the hanging cabinet above the cooking area; Tableware for daily use is placed in the hanging cabinets and drawers of the ground cabinets in the vegetable area; A small pot with warm milk and a non-stick pot are placed in the drawer under the steaming oven, which is convenient and quick to use.

There is a narrow basket on the left and right sides of the steaming oven. The high-frequency seasoning is put in the basket by the window, and the low-frequency seasoning is put in another basket, which is opened when cooking and closed after eating. The feeling after use is that two narrow baskets are much better than one wide basket.

An open compartment was made under the countertop in the vegetable area, and a cart was placed to store the ingredients that are not usually kept in the refrigerator.

The hanging rod is installed on the wall of the panel. This place is not only close to the cooking area, but also a blind spot. When decorating, sitting in the booth in the living room and looking into the kitchen is invisible. My baking tools and materials are all in the L-shaped cabinet by the window.

It is the premise of comfort to carefully tailor the items at home in advance and arrange the space reasonably according to the usage habits.

Toilet: Although the space is small, dry and wet should be separated.

Mirror cabinet is a must for storage, which can ensure that the countertop is clean and refreshing. The function of the two vertical light bars on the mirror cabinet and why they are better than the horizontal light bars are written in Teacher Su Wei's book.

The cabinet under the washbasin is raised, and there are children's stools and two washbasins below. The cupboard is full of kitchen babies, and hot water comes out in one second, which improves the happiness index when washing in autumn and winter. ?

See the dry place from the wet place. Articles that can't be stored, such as towels, are placed in the dead corner of sight.

The washing and drying machine solves some troubles of drying clothes without balcony. In addition, there is a clothes drying rod in the wet area and a clothes drying rod is installed outside the living room window, so it is enough to combine the three into one.

Part of the space opposite the washbasin is borrowed from the refrigerator in the kitchen, and the rest is too narrow to be used as a cabinet, so I simply installed a few boards to make an open grid (you can see a little in this picture).

The dry area contains three treasures: mirror cabinet, ground cabinet and bay. There is enough space to store laundry supplies, cleaning supplies and toiletries.

In the wet area of the bathroom, the same floor has drainage problems, so the wet area is more than ten centimeters higher than the dry area.

A yuba is installed in the corner opposite the shower, which integrates lighting, ventilation, heating, hot drying and cold drying. A horizontal bar is installed in the sunken space below the Yuba, which is used as a drying area for clothes that have not been dried after washing. Because it is also a blind spot, it can't be seen in the living room, so it is not messy at ordinary times. The crossbar has another function, that is, the clothes you take off in the shower are placed on the crossbar, which is blown by the hot air of Yuba, and it will be warm after bathing in winter.

In the corner next to the toilet, there is a big public water pipe, so I took the opportunity to make a cabinet: in addition to hiding the water pipe, there are items used in wet areas in the open compartment. Garbage cans with covers, bath balls and open compartments between toilets and lockers are also in the dead corner of sight. Hide if you can. If you can't hide it, you can put it in a blind spot. There are many blind spots in the line of sight, which makes the shortcomings of small apartments become advantages.

Master bedroom: the bedroom and study are integrated into one.

All three bedrooms are more than ten square meters. The master bedroom has a sloping roof, and the highest place behind the ceiling is about 2800. The slightly higher floor slightly eases the compact master bedroom. The master bedroom moves forward, flush with the shoe cabinet in the porch. Clothes worn that day will be hung on the hook at the back of the wardrobe to distinguish them from clothes that have not been worn.

The bookshelf is covered with 40mm thick solid wood, and the book is very heavy. 20mm thick particleboard may sink and bend after long-term use.

When customizing bookshelves, pay attention to the height of each compartment just enough. The height of each compartment in my house is too high, which leads to some waste of space and insufficient bookshelves. Some books that are not commonly used are placed on the tatami by the window in the living room.

The dresser on one side of the bed doubles as a table: it's urgent to get off work. Lock the master bedroom door, the children are outside, and you can do business quietly for a while.

A wheelbarrow is used as a bedside table. A cart is also a must for small apartments. When eating hot pot at home, you can use this cart to put vegetables.

Old people's room: lighting and ventilation are the most important

A bed, a table, a chair, a wardrobe and a TV are enough. (The wardrobe is opposite the bed)

The bed is custom-made tatami with three large drawers. Near the window, out-of-season items such as electric fans and quilts can be placed under the pedometer.

Although the old man's room area is not large, even in summer, closed doors can form a convective wind between two windows.

Children's room: children's growth period, functionality first.

A blackboard wall is made on the left side of the entrance to the children's room, and children can draw pictures. An open bookshelf is made on the right hand side of the door.

The bookshelf is connected with four wardrobes. As a woman with many clothes, the two wardrobes in the master bedroom are far from enough, and the rest of the clothes are put in the children's wardrobes. The lower space of the wardrobe is for children, with hanging rods and drawers.

The children's learning tools are all in the chest of drawers on the left. Children's desks and chairs are children's study desks and chairs. Although the height has increased, the height can be adjusted, and the inclination of the desktop can also be adjusted.

The single armchair was moved from the original home, and the color and style are really the opposite. I'm going to change it to a gray cover and transform it. Children's beds are the same as those in old people's rooms. It is custom-made tatami style, with three large drawers and children's toys in them.

Balcony: My home.

The living room and the master bedroom are completely different worlds, between closing the curtains and opening them. Outside the living room and master bedroom, I made a flower fence, which is my small garden. Occasionally, when I am alone at home, I often sit on the treadmill drinking tea, watching flowers and staring blankly.

Clothes drying poles are installed on the wall outside the living room window, which solves the problem that there is no balcony to dry clothes.

In response to the words in front of the article, why can it be installed in half an hour?

Because every item has a fixed space, children's toys and things that adults forget to put back in their original places can be put back in their original places and hidden in their respective homes for one year after they are actually used in our home.

Taking it out is life, taking it back is poetry, which can be completed in half an hour between taking it out and taking it back.

Finally, I'll take you to draw the key points:

1. Customized furniture is a magic weapon to make full use of small apartment space. Refine and tailor the items at home in advance, and make reasonable arrangements according to the usage habits to make full use of the space;

2, the furniture should either land, leaving no sanitary corners; Either the distance from the ground exceeds the height of the sweeper and sweeper, which needs to be considered before customizing the purchase of furniture.

3. When designing the storage space, there should be about 20% more space than the actual items at ordinary times, so as not to appear crowded.

4. Although the small apartment needs a large storage space, it is best to leave one or two relatively empty areas, which will make people uncomfortable.

5. Hide if you can. If you can't hide it, you can put it in a blind spot. There are many blind spots in the line of sight, which makes the shortcomings of small apartments become advantages.

Consider the details before decoration, improve the decoration process, and try to tolerate the regrets after decoration.