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Swedish death cleaning: how to declutter for good 
Swedish Death Cleaning. (Less morbid than it sounds.)
Swedish death cleaning isn't as grim as it sounds. Here's how to clear your home while you still can, and why it might be the kindest thing you do.
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The larder that ate the kitchen
There’s a moment in every kitchen when you look around and think: how did it come to this? The bread maker squatting on the worktop like a small gr...
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The extension you don’t need to build.
Most of us, at some point, have stood in our kitchen and thought: there isn’t enough room. Not for a proper larder, anyway. Not for the tins and th...
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What’s on top of your bedside cabinet?
A book you are genuinely reading. A book you are no longer reading but cannot bring yourself to move because that would mean admitting something. A...
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We deliver the furniture. Then we remove the evidence.
Elderflower Lane furniture is carefully packed to keep it safe on the journey from our warehouse to your home. But when it arrives there, something...
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We don't do a drop-and-run.
A large lorry. A four-hour window. A box on the doorstep. That's furniture delivery nowadays. It means people are surprised when ours turns up diff...
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You don't need a larder to have a larder.
Apparently, 82 per cent of people who renovated their kitchen last year added some kind of speciality storage. A walk-in pantry, a prep kitchen, a ...
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If it's worth keeping, isn't it worth seeing?
There is a difference between storing something and hiding it. Most storage is hiding. A drawer closes. A cupboard door shuts. Whatever was on the ...
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The room is full. The wall is empty.
Walk into almost any home and you will find the same pattern. The floor is covered. Every corner has claimed something. The surfaces are stacked wi...
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Could this be the best thing we've ever done?
We recently decided to do something that totally changed the way we interacted with our customers. And it’s so simple, we wish we’d done it years a...
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We'll do anything to avoid this.
In a supermarket, you push a heavy trolley to the checkout and almost always finish the job. Online, your basket is weightless. It’s easy to close ...
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Storage ideas stolen from the pharmacy
The word 'apothecary' is derived from the Greek word 'apotheca', meaning a place where wine, spices and herbs were stored. During the thirteenth ce...
