Everyone is impacted on by the objects around them each time they decide to interact with the jobs that they need to do each day. Placement of the items around us can make it easier and more efficient to do things or it can make it extremely challenging. Finding what you need in a busy bookshelf just requires a little structure to decide how is the best way for you to place or position in the way that you want to use them. Or. Are you the only person using the shelves. If not, how do you organise materials so that others can share. Kids personal belongings often take over larger spaces within a home, yet when you think about it they are quite large items in the first place. Yet as they get older they become smaller but there seem to be a lot more of them. How much space do the things in our lives take up? Not only in terms of the physical location within their home, but also within the quantity of time that we need to or do spend using them.
Getting things out, playing or using them appropriately and then packing the items back into their containers and then…. putting them away is a long list of steps. When you’re tired or unwell that quantity of steps is just too much. (E)
When you’re extremely busy looking at speedy places that you can place things can help make it easier. But the reality is that it still takes up the same amount of your time to use them. Unless you can become more efficient with the steps, with the materials and their structure in the first place or if you can work out a way to not require the use of the object full stop. Do you need all of the things that you have in your home? No. Yes. Maybe. Thinking through each of those details and the layers behind is important so that you can maintain the reasons that they were bought in the first place and to discover different ways to make sure that they continue to be useful for the short and long term.