You know how...

So you have one kitchen cupboard in which you have Macgyvered a number of small bins to hold your rubbish, recyclables, glass, soft plastics...the list goes on.

Maybe you've just made your way back inside from the rain and your jacket is soaking. Or you've hand-washed your shirt after dropping sauce on it. Or you've just returned from a quick dip in the swimming pool.

This gripe is so common that even comedians are using it as part of their routine. You step out of the shower, unable to reach your towel at the other end of the bathroom.

You were supposed to take the dirty clothes out to be washed days ago, but haven't got around to it. Your laundry hamper (or bathroom floor) is now overflowing with clothes.

After a long night making dinner, your back feels like you've been toiling away planting potatoes in a field instead of just cutting them on your bamboo chopping board. Life is tough.

You can't have a conversation or watch TV whilst cooking because some engineers somewhere decided "bigger is better" and now your rangehood sounds like a launching rocket whenever you turn it on.

You step out of the shower onto a partially-wet bath mat. The damn thing is always damp, because the towel rails are always full. So you end up hanging the mat over the top of the shower to dry, but it never seems to fully dry by the next morning.

You turn on the shower. And you wait. And wait. And wait some more. Annoyed and unclothed, you ponder how much of your water and time is being wasted each morning.

Maybe you got distracted by the latest episode of Desperate Housewives and the bath overflowed. Or maybe your dishwasher hose sprung a leak whilst you were at work. Some reasons for flooding the house are preventable, some aren't.

You're using the bathroom mirror whilst applying makeup or shaving. But no matter what time of the day you do this, you never seem to have quite enough light so see what you're doing.