I absolutely colour code chests (and buildings to a certain extent), and I love themeatic decoration. I do like to balance pleasing visuals with convenient functionality though. My farm as a whole has a sort of loop setup for daily collection stuff; postbox, statues, fishponds, tapped trees etc and then ending up at the greenhouse. I do a quick run around first thing every day... well, after coffee and a kiss from my spouse.

It keeps production ticking along and then I have the rest of the day for whatever.
I have a set of chests near the house for quickly dropping off items, then every so often I'll go through them and put stuff away properly.
