5 tips on how to de-clutter a mess in your home

Rather than living in a maze of stuff, every element of the household should be there to serve you says Kya deLongchamp.

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Terence Conran in his book, ‘Plain Simple Useful’ (Conran 2014) rails against ‘pointless complexity and superficial styling’.

Judith Wilson in her hymn of praise to communal happiness, Family Living (Ryland Peters & Small 2003), devotes much of her address to ‘free-flowing family living’ and guru of the great clutter-kill Marie Kondo, in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying (Vermillion 2014) says “the question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life”.