Pretty Ugly: Dish Racks + Toilet Brushes

Pretty Ugly: Spring Cleaning Edition was originally published in Trim Design Co.

We’re back with the third installment of Pretty Ugly where we round up pretty options for ugly things! If you missed our previous Pretty Ugly roundups, you can find them here and here.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably familiar with a little show on Netflix called Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. On the show, Kondo helps people tackle their clutter problem by leading them through her special tidying process.

To make a long story extremely short, her basic system is: Only keep items that spark joy. So instead of having lots of things, have a tightly curated collection of things you love. This has been my own process for my entire adult life (my own mother approaches housekeeping and organization in an extremely Kondo-like manner) which is why I’ve turned finding attractive and joy-sparking options for even the most mundane household items into a personal Olympic sport.

Nothing sucks the joy out of my sails faster than an ugly old dish rack sabotaging the atmosphere of a beautiful kitchen, so this week I decided to tackle dish drying racks as well as (shudder) toilet brushes. Keep scrolling for my clean-chic picks!