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I'm a left. I need these things, store them in a cabinet behind an opaque door. Function over form, but always keep things clean & new, and periodically re-evaluate my belongings, to prevent clutter buildup & hoarding, sort things into four categories: trash-donate-recycle-keep.
I was not made to have matching sets of anything.
Por que no los dos?
Yeah honestly. My kitchen looks exactly like this. I have all the same glasses and my cups are a wild mess, together with a bunch of random glasses i collected over the years
Same. The matching fancy side collects dust. The silly side gets used til things break.
For me too . One cabinet with fancy glassware and one cabinet with a wild collection of everything.
The left side is a collection of memories, and the right side is a collection of order. I definitely live on the left, and honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way!
The one on the left, because I have friends and when they visit they also expect to drink from a glass.
There’s a trend to arrange everything like a sculptures in the louvre. It’s a cupboard, and it has doors for a reason.
This does not spark joy.
Unless you're 8 feet tall most cupboards are like this, no?
You forgot the cup hooks underneath, and the large drinking steins/tankards/catfood on top
Other way around. The nice sets on top, the regularly used collection of oddities below.
Am I the only person who puts glasses in the cabinet upside down?
Also: left side, but flipped.
I enjoy my water with extra dust
I put them in an alternating pattern, they take less space that way
...and everything in between
I am the left, but I strongly desire to be the one on the right , I just can't bear to part with all my random cups and glassware that have special significance or sentimentality.
I'm so called out in this pic. My coffee mug area is a travesty.
But do you ever use any of them to get Travis tea?
Do you also strategically choose which lesser mugs have to sit precariously on top of the others?
Absolutely. It isn't true chaos. There is a hierarchy of the mugs that cannot be denied.
I am on the right, the wife and kid are on the left.
Why not both, exactly like in the picture?
I want to be the one on the right, but my wife and kids say I have to be the one on the left.
Own home on the left, air bnb on the right.
Which absolute psychopath has the one on the right?
I have near crippling ADHD and prior to moving in with my spouse, my kitchen looked like this, as well as my towels, sheets, cleaners, and spice rack. Having everything ordered took away the mental load, 8 identical towels is one load a week on Sunday plus a spare if something interrupts the schedule. I never had to consider a sensory issue because they're all the exact same towel. Same for dishes, all my cups held the same amount and felt the same in hand. All my plates and bowls were identical so I couldn't have a preferred one. All of them were dishwashers safe and dishwasher design friendly so I never needed to consider if they needed special treatment.
Taking away that thing to think about made a huge difference in clarity of mind because I could then use that energy for other things.
Yes! Absolutely the same for me. I also have ADHD and when living alone I had only one type of everything. Since my now wife and me live together, this it not the case anymore and, if I'm being honest, it sometimes stresses me out. It leads to so much distraction for me, that it makes cleaning and tidying up even harder for me than it already is.
Absolutely the same. I grew up in a messy and unregulated environment and the first coping skill I learned was object blindness. If it causes distress and I can't fix it immediately, my mind simply refuses to acknowledge it from that point on which is a point of contention in the house because it leads to me simply ignoring a lot of things.
100% this is my struggle.
I want things to be orderly because walking into a chaotic place is mentally stressing for me. I feel overwhelmed by things in the way, I am stressed when trying to find things, and I feel like all the things left out are just more things that need to be done when I already have a lot of things to do. This overstimulation causes my brain to just short circuit and shutdown.....
For me I respond to stress with object blindness. If I can't immediately fix something my mind Will literally redact it away to the point that inconveniently places boxes on the floor will be stepped over for weeks until I eventually trip on it and it becomes relevant again.
I always find it odd that people use a new towel every day but don't change their bed sheets every day.
My parents and my partner’s parents are BOTH! Regular stuff cupboards are the left image, and fancy stuff that never gets used goes in clear glass displays sorted like the right image.
Only IKEA and Pottery Barn photographers I think.
Normal human and hotel
This just looks like my shelves. One side has the store bought glasses; the other has all the novelty/gas station refillable cups.
i’m both - dishes I use on the right the ones I don’t on the left
I have one super small section that looks like the left, everything else looks like the right.
It’s only like a single 12x12 space in one cabinet, but this post is making me awkwardly uncomfortable about it. And it’s making me want to do something about it. But they are my most commonly used cups. So functionally it would be counter productive to get rid of them.
I need to leave this thread before my head explodes.
The right side is when you first get a place and start with nothing, the left side is after living there for years.
I’m in between the two. Organized, but all my coffee cups are different. And my cabinets stay closed.