Sort Your Life Out star Dilly Carter shares the best tips for giving your home a spring clean – and you can apply the ‘rule of three’ anywhere in the house

Sort Your Life Dilly Carter shared her top tips for giving your home a spring clean ahead of the summer season.

The home organization expert, 43, who stars in the BBC One show with Stacey Solomon, joined Christine Lampard on ITV’s Lorraine to give her tips on how to declutter and clean your home.

Dilly revealed that people tend to get overwhelmed by the thought of spring cleaning, but she claimed that taking it room by room can help tackle the workload in small chunks.

The mum-of-one gave her top three hassle-free tips for decluttering every room in your home.

She said: ‘I think the bedroom is a good place to start, sleep is one of our most important commodities, it’s what we need the most and if our bedrooms are not a relaxing place or looked after, it will affect everything. .’

Bedroom

1. Vacuum mattress

‘This is neglected a lot, but it is so important. We have spent the whole winter in our beds with heavy duvets and blankets all the dust builds up.

‘I would try to do it once a month if you can because the dust builds up. Think of all the skin in the mattress, it’s a bit ugly.’

2. Rule of three for bedding

‘How many of us have that much bedding? So I would like to say one more, one time, one extra. This is the guideline for how much you should have.

“Obviously if you have children at the bedwetting stage it would be great to have a few more extra sets, but a lot of us have 20 extra sets of bedding, ideally we’d like to reduce that amount.

‘So go by the rule of three, that gives you a guideline, and if you know you’ve got double that’s fine, but quadruple – so maybe too much.’

3. Pack away the winter duvet

‘It is at that point that we do not need the 10 tonnes. We can choose something a little lighter, so pack them away, vacuum pack them, and then you have more room to put on that spring duvet.

‘Anything you can pack away to save space will always be a good idea because the idea of ​​decluttering is to create space in the house to make us feel lighter. ‘

Kitchen

1. Check dates

‘Start from the left side and work your way around, make sure you lay everything out, check the dates. When we pull something out of a closet, we want to group it. Make sure all your tins are together, your pastas are together, snacks, breakfast cereals so you can create zones when you put it all back.

2. Arrange the layout

“You might have all your breakfast containers on one shelf, all your snacks on another, what we want is for the kitchen to flow.

3. Recycle containers

‘It’s so important to use containers, we get boxes through the doors all the time, we have old Quality Street cans and coffee glasses to pack away legumes, grains and all that stuff. Try to use what you have.’

Bathroom

1. Create a quiet space

‘We want a nice bathroom that we can walk into and escape and feel like we’re just relaxing, we don’t want products all over the bathroom sides.’

2. Fifth rule

‘When it comes to cleaning products, we have a lot of our products in the bathroom that are just not necessary, think about the essentials that we might need near our toilet, it’s probably just bleach.

‘We should only have five cleaning agents in general. It might just be an antibacterial, bleach, Fairy Liquid. It can be a special cleaning agent. But that’s it.’

3. Keep the windowsill clear

‘So many of us block our windowsills with products, we can’t see out, so it’s nice to have bright clear surfaces.’

Living room

1. Lay everything out

‘We like to go into theirs to relax, don’t we, it should be the place where we switch off and sit back at the end of the night.

“But it’s usually the place where all the toys are, and all the washing, there’s all kinds of chaos going on in the living room. Get out everything that bothers you.’

2. Group similar items

‘Group what you can, then reduce what you can, then put everything back. You may not have enough storage space, find out what you have in your front room and think about what could look nicer so that when you relax you are not looking at a pile of chaos.’

3. Clear three things

‘Often we can feel too overwhelmed thinking I have to clean up, get everything out of my house, but start with something small with three things, start with something small, small challenges.’