Curated Catastrophe
Browse by room
Start from the room that is bothering you. Each one has the guides, the printables, and the three things that usually go wrong in that particular room.
Kitchen
The room that decides how the whole house feels. A kitchen left overnight sets the tone for the next morning, which is why almost every workable routine starts here rather than anywhere more satisfying.
2 guides, 2 printables
Bathroom
Small, damp, and full of bottles with nothing left in them. Bathrooms need less cleaning than people think and far more culling.
1 guide, 1 printable
Bedroom and wardrobe
The room guests never see, so it is the room that absorbs everything else. It is also the one where a ten-minute difference is most obvious.
3 guides, 3 printables
Entryway and hallway
Whether or not you have one. The first two metres of a home take the whole day's worth of shoes, post and bags, and most homes have never decided where any of it goes.
2 guides, 2 printables
Desk, office and paperwork
Usually a corner of another room rather than a room of its own, which is exactly why it needs rules that a whole study would not.
2 guides, 2 printables
Kids' rooms and toys
The only part of a house where the volume genuinely grows on its own, and the only part where the other person gets a say.
2 guides, 2 printables
Flats and small spaces
Renting, no drilling, and not much floor. Small-space advice usually assumes you can mount things to a wall, and most people cannot.
1 guide, 1 printable
Whole house
The routines and resets that are not about one room: what to do weekly, how often things actually need doing, and how to start when all of it feels like too much.
12 guides, 12 printables