Just because a home is small, doesn’t necessarily make it any easier to keep clean than a bigger home. In fact, some smaller properties can quickly become overwhelmed with clutter, giving dust and debris plenty of places to settle, and making cleaning that bit harder.
If you’d like to learn how to keep your bijous home clean and tidy, here are some top tips:
Be ruthless with your decluttering efforts
A small home has no room for anything that doesn’t need to be in it. If you want to keep any decorative items on display in your small home, keep them in cabinets where possible, or limit them to one area where they will be easier to clean.
If something doesn’t add value to your home, get rid of it!
Make use of vertical space
In a home in which floor space is limited, try making use of vertical storage options, which can go as high as the ceiling should they need to. This will give you a lot more floor space, while still keeping things tidily stored away where they won’t gather so much dust, or become trip hazards.
Choose furniture that’s multipurpose
Sofa beds and tables with storage under them are just two of the many items that can help bring peace and tidiness to a small home. By minimizing clutter while preventing small spaces from looking and feeling, cramped and crowded, multipurpose furniture works wonder in petite properties.
Clean little and often
By cleaning up spillages as soon as they occur, and making sure that you put things back where they belong after each use, you can help keep any small space cleaner and tidier, for longer. Plus, the more often you clean (and this need only be for 10 minutes each day), the less you’ll find yourselves lumbered with at the end of the week or on your day off, when you least want to be doing it.
Hire a professional cleaning service
Many cleaning companies offer decluttering and storage solutions, too, and provided you let them know exactly what you want to keep and what you want to recycle or sell, and which things can be placed in storage, you could walk out of your small home with a headache from all of the clutter, dust and grime, but return to such a neat and tidy space that all of your troubles seem to melt away! You might think this to be an exaggeration, but a messy home in which items jostle for space and dust abounds, can hamper your efforts to think straight, feel positive, and even be happy.
Professional cleaners will also ensure that your small home is hygienically clean, which can be just as much of an issue as it can be in bigger homes. Whether you love alone, or with others, it’s all too easy to neglect cleaning because it doesn’t feel so necessary (or easy) in a small home, but in many instances, it’s even more necessary. Clutter builds up quickly in little homes, and dust, allergens and bacteria love nothing more than plenty of surfaces to rest on, and breed on!
There’s absolutely no reason why your small home can’t be clean and tidy, most of the time. And if you hire a cleaning service on a regular basis, you’ll find that decluttering and cleaning up after yourself in between their visits, soon becomes second nature to you, and doesn’t take up much of your time.
