CLEAN AND UPCYCLE SYSTEMISE
Stacey is known for her “make ups” and Yaku family’s old TV unit into a drinks loves losing herself in a craft project. cabinet for some stray wine bottles.
“It’s my form of meditation,” she says And in genius carpentry, he turns the in her new book. “It’s a chance for me to lower stairs of the house into pull-out forget about the things going on in the drawers for shoes, and builds a spacesaving world around me for a minute.” dressing table over a radiator.
In the show, carpenter and upcycler Stacey has lots of suggestions for Robert Bent and cleaning fanatic upcycling the most sentimental Iwan Carrington help her to items. A creaky old nursing overhaul the Yaku family’s chair is reupholstered into home, painting, fixing a trendy rocking chair. and renovating old Old wrapping paper is pieces of furniture. transformed into prints
Stacey says: “You of the kids’ initials on can completely bedroom walls. Baby makeover a family muslins are stitched into home without breaking a memory blanket. the bank, just by cleaning, Other “make up” ideas organising and upcycling from Stacey’s book and what you already have.” SKILLS Rob on the job Instagram include old
Cleaning tips on the show include garden crates turned into shelves, a using lemon and salt to get rid of watering can turned into a light display, limescale and adding a low-cost toilet empty candle pots transformed into brush to a drill to take the elbow grease bird feeders, a scented pillow spray and out of cleaning the loo. Rob turns the foliage photo frame.
Now we get to the fun part. Buy yourself a label maker, which costs as little as £12, invest in multiple clear containers and get going on your own systems.
“This is like my porn,” Stacey says as she surveys the newly organised Yaku fridge, with all food neatly labelled in containers.
She suggests tilting shelves, then using tension rods to stop stacked tins sliding forwards. “Always reconfigure your cupboards to make them work for you,” she says.
Stacey also adds curtain clips to hang up packets in kitchen cupboards. “It’s like a wardrobe of sauces!” she says. “I do this with mine and honestly it’s changed my life.”
Cereal is decanted into clear containers. Dilly explains: “It’s about knowing what you have, being able to see what you have, and knowing how much you then need to go and buy.”
Other tips include hanging glasses upside down so they don’t get dusty, storing pots on hooks and fixing magnets to the inside of cupboard doors for kitchen utensils.
In the bathroom, flannels can be clipped up and toiletries stored in baskets.
In the bedroom, Stacey rolls up her clothes for easy view and groups them together with the most used at the front, with jewellery sorted into plastic containers.
Shoes should be hung on hooks while bikes can be mounted on the wall.
And those sentimental items? Make yourself a memory box… then forget your clutter forever.
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