Easy to keep clean home must haves!

[Cmekrru]

If you could design a home to be the easiest to keep clean as possible what would you do/ avoid?

What ideas do you have for making things easier to clean/keep neat?

If you were building, what would you design (or not design) into the house to make it easy to clean? How about flooring, lighting, plumbing, kitchen stuff, etc?

My never ending quest to get information to make the best/easiest to clean, house.

So far I have
1)Hard floors - tiles / wood light colour show dust less badly.
2)Wet room bathroom to avoid cleaning sliding shower door frames / glass of limescale gunge
3)Smooth kitchen cupboards easy to wipe down.

4)Kitchen sink back flush to splashback to avoid water collecting in behind tap gutter.
5)Lots of storage (but where)

Any laundry room (I wish I had space) or dealing with laundry suggestions?!

Anything else you have noticed is a pain to clean and could be designed better?

INeedSomeHelp, I lived in a flat with just such a cupboard in the hall.

The whole flat had hot air heating and the drying cupboard was wonderful.

Lilli I have smooth, wall hung toilets. They definitely help.

Cressandra Ikea do doors for bookcases in their Billy range.

Yup the toilet one is a good one need sids to hit the ground as vertically as possible no dips with bolts etc!

Little clutter. Good storage (to store items upright kondo style). Wooden floors, wooden doors, wooden windowsills, wooden furniture as they hide the dirt. Dark grey coloured sofa. Wipeable walls

Those Hoover socket tube things can be problematic. Just use a lightweight cordless Hoover to whip round

Black or dark grey grout - so sick of scrubbing my "white" grouted floor tiles!

Toilet with smooth sides, been there, done it - a mistake. Yes it's easier to clean but not that much less work than the 'traditional' toilet. Problem is that it's all sealed in and we now need to change the seat hinges and the bolts can only be accessed within the unit so cannot do so without dismantling the whole thing/redoing bathroom floor.

In retrospect I think wall-hung is the way to go, that's what you see on lots of industrial-scale loos e.g. motorway stops, airports. Unless someone has a different experience? Wouldn't fit though as our toilet is under a window and needs a large metal frame.

Now don't get me started on cleaning the underside of toilet seats which have molded segments for grunge to accumulate and online catalogs never show the underside view [website designer clearly doesn't clean the loo at home].