I’m furnishing a house fresh for first time since collecting items from uni days, hand me downs and charity searching. So everything was a hodge podge.
I would take it room by room.
I have just done the kitchen and what I have learnt in trying to make it as streamlined as possible is to only have items which work very hard and throw everything else.
For example I had myriad of baking trays, tins, ceramic dishes, serving dishes etc etc.
Now I have two large baking trays; which double as additional shelves for the oven as I found the exact size.
All the hodge podge ceramic dishes, serving dishes, and baking tins/ trays thrown out and replaced with a nest of falcon enamel trays.
I also have two attractive nesting ceramic dishes from Ikea (because sometimes you do want a ceramic) but they double as serving dishes and also can be used in oven.
Next I want to streamline is the glass mixing bowls, large crockery serving bowls, colanders, Pyrex and tupperware. So my plan is to throw all of those items and get just the falcon bowl nest (which includes a colander). So that covers mixing, serving and can be used in the oven or even on a hob. Yet all stores perfectly! This brings me so much joy 😂
And get a Pyrex jug with a lid (which means I can use it in the microwave so can throw the tupper).
And only if I can’t live without the Tupperware then I will purchase one efficiently nesting set.
So for me I am finding purchasing is actually part of the process. You can’t just remove stuff if you use it and don’t have an alternative. So buying with the intent of replacing multiple items with one high quality compactly storable multi use item or set is working well for me.
This is honestly streamlining the kitchen so much it’s a joy to open a cupboard.