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Spring Cleaning – Dining Room

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Wax and Polish Your Furniture: Several times a year, it’s a good idea to wax or polish all of your wooden furniture. Done too often, and you’ll cause too much waxy build-up. Too infrequently and you’re depriving your furniture from a layer of protection. Oils and waxes of all kinds work well on your wooden furniture. Which one you choose is up to you. The most important thing to remember is to do a thorough buffing job so that you won’t leave a sticky, filmy residue.

Uphpolstery: If you have upholstered dining room chairs ,thoroughly vacuum and at the least, use a store-bought upholstery cleaner. To really clean those seats, steam clean.

Credenzas, Sideboards and Hutches: If you have any kind of storage unit in your dining room, spring cleaning is a great time to go though the cupboards and drawers and decide if you really use all of the items that you’re storing here. Over the years, It’s easy to shove things into these storage units that don’t actually belong in the dining room. Do a clear-out of all of the drawers and re-organize so that you’re only storing what you actually use.

Spring Cleaning – Bedroom

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The Bedding: Wash bedding, comforters, mattress pads and pillows. Most polyester filled pillows can be washed. Others can not. Read the labels to see care instructions and if you can’t wash your pillows, take them outside and “beat” them, then leave to air out for several hours.

The Mattress: You should flip your mattress every 6 months, so spring cleaning is the ideal time for a flip. Next, vacuum it , and if necessary, use an upholstery shampoo for tough stains. Before re-making the bed, allow the mattress to thoroughly air dry for at least 12 hours.

Dressers, Chests and Nightstands: Dust off dressers, chests and nightstands.

Mirrors: Use a glass cleaner to thoroughly clean all bedroom mirrors.

Closets and Drawers: Use the four-bin method to go through closets and drawers and decide what you need and what you can get rid of. Toss any socks with holes, underwear that’s seen better days, bras that no longer lift. It’s about clean out as well as cleaning up!

Tip: Don’t forget to clean and vacuum under the bed!

Spring Cleaning – The Bathroom

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Shower and Tub: Scrub as you normally do, this time also removing your shower curtain to launder or use a heavy duty soap scum remover to get the grime off of shower doors.

Toilet: Get into all of those nooks and crannies, and that includes the parts that no one sees behind the porcelain throne and underneath.

Medicine Cabinet: Remove everything from your medicine cabinet and any other cupboards or cabinets you use to store bathroom products and thoroughly clean all surfaces. You’ll be surprised at how much soapy residue or old shampoo – or just plain dust – has accumulated in there. This is a great time to throw stuff out- and don’t be bashful! If you feel bad about throwing away half-full cosmetics or shampoos, put them in a yard sale. People will buy them.

Sinks and Mirrors: Follow your usual routine, but this time, add q-tips to your arsenal to really get into each crevice of your mirror and bathroom fixtures.

Bathroom Trash Can: Can liners only can do so much from keeping dirt and germs from the surface of your trash can. Spring cleaning is a great time to actually clean and deoderize this container. Hint: the tub is a good place to do the cleaning, before you scrub the tub.