Clean Your Living Area's More Efficiently!

If you've been following along the past couple months, you’ll know we've gone over efficiently cleaning your Bathrooms (January) and efficiently cleaning your Kitchens (February). While Bathrooms and Kitchens tend to be at the top of the priority list for most people, we still have Living Areas to clean. Whether it be your Bedroom, Living Room, Dining Room, Family Room, Media Room, etc.; your biggest battle in these rooms is more than likely…DUST! Many people suffer from dust allergies so it is exceedingly important to make sure you keep your Living Areas dusted on a regular basis, especially in your Bedroom where you sleep at night. In rooms where you have TV’s and other electronics you will be fighting dust on a weekly basis because electronics attract dust like a magnet.

There are a couple tips that remain the same no matter which area you are cleaning:

-Always dust top to bottom to avoid dust and debris falling on an area you have already cleaned

-Work clockwise or counter clockwise, to avoid missing any areas

To begin in your Living Area’s complete all the dry dusting, top to bottom. Run a long handled duster along all wall/ceiling corners, around drapery rods, along baseboards, behind furniture, etc.

Next you will do all furniture polishing. Take a clean microfiber cloth and mist with furniture polish. Wipe down all wood furniture with your cloth, be sure to get UNDER lamps, alarm clocks, coasters, books and any other items. The most thorough way to dust a piece of furniture is to take everything off the surface. Polish the top, sides and lastly base of the furniture. This will give a much more even looking polish and will help to eliminate streaks. Wipe down each item you removed, as you replace it so as not to get dust on your clean surface.

The last step in dusting is sanitizing glass. Use the same process of removing all items off of any glass topped furniture. Spray the surface to be cleaned and wipe clean with a dry microfiber cloth, turning your cloth as necessary to buff out all streaks. Cleaning the glass wholly rather than trying to clean around things will give you an even, minimal streak finish. At this time you would also sanitize any glass mirrors in living areas, mirrored closet doors, glass in French doors, etc.

If you are cleaning your Bedroom(s) you would now make/straighten your bed and pillows. If you are cleaning Living room/Family room/Media room this is the time to vacuum all furniture and straighten blankets/pillows. If there is leather furniture present, wipe it down with a microfiber cloth dampened with water or a leather safe cleaner.

Lastly vacuum all carpet/area rugs, running the vacuum hose along baseboards for a detailed vacuuming job. Mop hard surface floors if applicable.