How to Keep Your Apartment Clean on an Everyday Basis
Cleaning is one of those household duties that few enjoy yet needs to be done regularly. For some, Saturday mornings are spent hoovering, washing, dusting and washing down surfaces, while for others, even that is too much to face. Once you’ve found your ideal apartment on Rentola, there’s no reason why cleaning should become an impossible chore. By following these steps, you can keep your new apartment looking clean and loved all week long.
Make your Bed Every Morning
Your bed is the centrepiece of your bedroom, and an unmade bed can make the whole space look untidy and messy.
Simply puffing out your pillows, straightening your duvet and pulling it up can transform the feel of your bedroom from a chaotic space into a room created for calmness and stillness. This simple two-minute job keeps your room looking clean and tidy and sets you up to begin your day in a positive and calm frame of mind.
Empty the Dishwasher Every Morning
Dishwashers are amongst the best labour-saving devices created. Not only do they take the pain out of washing up, but they can also help you hide a multitude of sins during the day.
Running your dishwasher once a day overnight minimises the impact on the environment as it uses less energy and allows you to begin each day positively.
Taking five minutes each morning before breakfast to empty the dishwasher and put things in their rightful place will help you start each day as you mean to go on.
Tidy the Kitchen as You Go
Dirty kitchen countertops can create several problems for you. They attract insects and household pests, they smell, and the longer they’re left, the more difficult they are to clean.
If wiping down as you go is difficult, make it your number one task after you’ve finished your meal. Stack the dirty dishes and crockery in the dishwasher, ready for its overnight run, then clean down any mucky surfaces and splashbacks.
Not only will this keep your kitchen nice and tidy for when visitors come over, but it’ll also be a space you want to spend time and create some culinary masterpieces.
Wipe Bathroom Sinks and Taps
Like it or not, the bathroom is a room that collects the most debris in the house. Soap scum, toothpaste stains and water marks gather quickly on sink surfaces and, if left uncleaned, harden to become hard-to-shift stains and limescale.
Keep some wipes within easy reach of the bathroom sink and bathtub and after you’ve cleaned your teeth every morning and before bed, take a moment to wipe down the bathroom enamel and taps to get rid of stains and stop them from becoming stubborn.
Sort the Mail as it Arrives
The daily mail delivery often contains as much junk as items of importance. The temptation to put it all to one side and deal with it again is overwhelming. However, before you know it, the pile has grown and is infinitely more daunting than it was before.
Take two minutes to sort through the mail you receive each day, open everything, put anything urgent in a prominent place, and immediately put any junk in the recycling pile.
This will help with prioritisation, ensuring you don’t miss anything urgent and stop the constant build-up of unsightly paper from building up and making your apartment look untidy.
Use Doormats
The entrance to your apartment will likely be where the most dirt will collect and congregate as muddy shoes and boots are removed after a long walk or hard day at work.
Using doormats by the front door can significantly reduce the amount of vacuuming that’s required. Ask visitors to remove their dirty footwear at the door.
Not only do doormats reduce the amount of cleaning of carpets or laminate flooring, but they also provide a welcoming and homely touch to welcome people to your apartment.
Take your Mess With You
It’s been a long day at work, and all you want to do is to relax in front of a film with your feet up, a glass of wine and a takeaway.
The temptation when tiredness overtakes you is to leave the tidying up until the following morning. Yet, planning ahead and not waking up to the sight of empty bottles, half-drunk glasses of wine, and smelly takeaway containers isn’t going to put you in a good mood.
Clearing up before you head to bed, ensuring the empties are rinsed out and recycled, and dirty plates and glasses in the dishwasher load will kick your weekend off in style.
Make sure family members do the same with toys, books and devices they might have been using during the day.
Return Things to Where They Belong
We’re all guilty of picking something up and not returning it to where it lives. Perhaps you’ve become distracted by a phone call or the front door and put a book down on a side table before forgetting all about it.
Before you know it, surfaces that look great when clear are covered in half-opened mail, toys, dirty cups and other things.
Doing a regular sweep of room surfaces and taking a moment to put things back where they return will stop things from mounting up and become an overwhelming and time-consuming chore when it doesn’t need to.
