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Home inventory checklist, room by room

Print it, walk the house with a pen, and fill in what you find. Nothing here needs an app, an account or an address to send it to.

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Or print this page — it is laid out for paper as well as for a screen.

Four things worth knowing first

Photograph the thing, not the room: A wide shot of a living room proves a living room existed. A photograph of the television, close enough to read the badge, proves the television did.
The serial number is usually on a plate: Back or underside for televisions and monitors; underneath for laptops; inside the door for refrigerators and washing machines; on the motor housing for power tools; stamped under the bottom bracket for bicycles.
Write down what you paid, not what you think it is worth now: The figure you can support is the one you have a receipt or a bank line for. Guesses are still worth writing down — mark them as guesses.
Do it in passes: One room an evening is a week for a house. Trying to do all of it at once is how these lists end up half finished in a drawer.

Living room

Television and whatever it is mounted on
Sound system, speakers, games console
Sofa, armchairs, coffee table
Rugs, curtains and blinds
Pictures, prints and anything framed
Lamps and light fittings you paid for

Blank rows to write in for the living room
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

Kitchen

Refrigerator, cooker, oven, extractor
Dishwasher, washing machine, dryer
Microwave, kettle, toaster, coffee machine, mixer
Pans, knives and anything bought as a set
Dinner service, glassware, cutlery

Blank rows to write in for the kitchen
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

Dining room

Table and chairs
Sideboard, dresser, cabinets
China, crystal, silver
Light fitting over the table

Blank rows to write in for the dining room
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

Bedrooms

Bed, mattress, wardrobe, chest of drawers
Jewellery and watches — item by item, not "jewellery"
Clothing by category, and coats separately
Shoes, handbags, luggage
Televisions and anything else plugged in

Blank rows to write in for the bedrooms
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

Home office or study

Computers, monitors, printer, network kit
Desk, chair, shelving, filing
Cameras, lenses, microphones, instruments
Books, if there are enough of them to matter

Blank rows to write in for the home office or study
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

Bathroom and utility

Cabinets, mirrors, heated rails
Electric toothbrushes, shavers, hair tools
Scales, air purifiers, dehumidifiers
Towels and linen as a set

Blank rows to write in for the bathroom and utility
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

Garage, shed and outbuildings

Bicycles — make, model and frame number
Power tools and hand tools
Lawnmower, strimmer, pressure washer, ladders
Sports and camping equipment
Spare tyres, roof boxes, car kit

Blank rows to write in for the garage, shed and outbuildings
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

Loft, basement and storage

Suitcases and trunks
Seasonal decorations
Furniture kept in reserve
Photograph albums, archives, keepsakes
Hobby and craft equipment

Blank rows to write in for the loft, basement and storage
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

Outdoors

Garden furniture and parasols
Barbecue, fire pit, heaters
Planters, statuary, water features
Play equipment and trampolines

Blank rows to write in for the outdoors
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

Anywhere in the house

Musical instruments
Artwork and anything inherited
Collections — stamps, coins, records, models
Rugs that move between rooms
Tools and kit borrowed from nobody in particular

Blank rows to write in for the anywhere in the house
Item	Make, model, serial number	What you paid	Photo	Receipt

When the sheet is full

A filled-in checklist is already worth more than nothing, and it is enough on its own — keep it somewhere that is not the house it describes.

What it cannot do is carry the photographs and the receipts, and those are the parts that turn a list into evidence. That is the job Roomkeep does: the same walk through the house, with a camera, ending in a printable report that keeps the pictures and the paperwork attached to the things they belong to.