How to make a house as low maintenance as possible!

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Certain types of materials you should use that are easy to clean?

House/furniture layout ideas?

Storage ideas

Things that should be stored together to save time?

Cleaning products/gadgets that are worth their weight in gold?

Just looking for ideas for when we buy a new house to add to my main plan of a decent looking wood laminate EVERYWHERE as I'm messy, disorganised and lazy.

Ok so nobody? I need Mumsnet wisdom!

Hiya there is a thread from years ago, "how to build in cleanliness"

I love the pointers on that thread.

Thanks, I shall have a look.

Lvt flooring downstairs, it can withstand spills and floods, laminate can't
Paint the whole house in Dulux washable paint, same colour
Leather sofas, no throws
Zero ornaments, just some lovely art on the walls
Shredder, shred all junk mail / whatever weekly
Massive cull of gadgets / junk
Floor to ceiling cupboards on utility
No log burner / open fire
I'll think of more I'm sure....

A cleaner

Lol at cleaner, I'm too tight! That's built in cleanliness thread is everything I've ever wanted, thanks!

I would evict the rest of my family including pets which would cut down on 95% of spillages and mess! 🤣

No open bookcases/shelving. If you really want your stuff on view get units with glass doors to keep the dust off.

I would love a full wall of floor to ceiling cupboards in one downstairs room. The ones with no handles and painted to match the room.

Wall hung loo and basin in the bathroom - easy to mop as nothing to mop around.

European style triple glazed windows that open inwards so that you can clean them yourself easily. Also those roll shutters that they have in Europe on every window.

Sorry could someone pls post a link to the thread mentioned? My searches aren't picking it up

Is this it? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/property/2610210-How-to-build-in-cleanliness

Thanks! I literally searched that exact title and nothing came up!!

Laminate gets very dusty in non walked corners btw. Needs to be swept a few times a week ime

I have never found laminate to be particularly hard wearing. The whole of our downstairs is vinyl - easy and quick to keep clean.
I think having a place for everything helps. Get rid of stuff you don't use; simplify your life. Have plenty of storage, more than you think you would ever use - I don't think you can ever have enough.
Also, don't overfill your house with furniture, keep it simple.
I used to own and run a cleaning business. The worst houses were those with loads of stuff on surfaces, it would take twice as long cleaning round objects and ornaments (especially blinking bottles of everything in bathrooms).
Make other house occupants clean up after themselves and put stuff away.

We have just redone our always messy bathroom.
Replaced the open shelving with a tall wide shallow cabinet, literally one decent sized bottle deep.
Smaller vanity to discourage stuff being left on it.

Bit of a risk as neither of us are inherently tidy.
2 months on and its stayed tidy. Stuff is easy to find in cabinet as it's single layer and all visible.
Only things out are toothbrushes and husband's electric razor, plus bottle of hand-wash.
In drawers under sink, stuff not used daily is stored in baskets in the drawers, sorted by category. Baskets stop stuff drifting around when people are looking for things.

Currently planning kitchen using same principles. Work surface referred to as the Dumping Ground will be removed and replaced with shallow cupboards.

Replacing fancy faux Victorian skirting boards with 3 moulded levels to collect dust with plain ones.

I've just been gifted one of those Dyson cordless vacuums and bloody hell its changed my life (bit of an exaggeration there) I can do my whole house in less than 2 minutes.