Are you preparing to build or remodel a home in Boise, Idaho? You've come to the right place! Read on to learn about how you can design your home to be easier to clean. This article is an effort to rescue the homemaker. Every room in your home can be changed to cut some need for cleaning. Following are six suggestions from Happy Homes Maids in Boise, Idaho, to make your home easier to maintain:
1. Use medium colors. Medium colors don't show dust and dirt as easily. Dust a black piece of furniture, and you can watch it fill up with dust again nearly immediately! Black sinks and black refrigerators start getting white build up on them from hard water. Use patterns with multi-colors in your flooring, carpet and countertops; they are great at camouflaging dust, dirt and fingerprints.
2. Install easy-to-clean materials. Use smooth materials and paint that is easy to wash. Rough materials, such as rock, are tough to dust, and tougher to wash. Install carpets in your bedrooms, living rooms and family rooms. Carpets are easier to clean than hard floors, because they only require one step to clean them. Install hard floors in your high traffic areas.
3. Build in fewer shelves. Short walls built for plant shelves are very difficult to clean, and are dust collectors. Cabinets should be built all the way to the ceiling so dust cannot collect on top. The bonus is more cabinet space for storage. Have you ever tried to clean on top of kitchen or other cabinets that do not go to the ceiling? Happy Homes Maids does it all the time, and there is no easy way to do it. Every shelf in your house collects dust. We have had to clean log homes before, and they are neat looking, but every single log has to be dusted because they are each like a shelf.
4. Use less grout. Never put tile countertops in a kitchen! Grout is porous and hard-to-clean. Tile in a shower is very difficult to keep clean from growing mold. The best product for showers and tubs is solid molded plastic, or shower walls that are one solid piece cut from granite, quartz, or pro marble (never use real marble because you can't clean it...or use it...without it getting scratched and stained).
5. De-clutter. About half of housework is caused by junk, litter, and clutter - having things around that we don't need and never use. Design and decorate your home with simplicity in mind. The less you have to pick up and dust under or pick up and vacuum under, the faster it will be to clean your home. Keep your furnishings simple as well; excess furniture can turn your home into an obstacle course for vacuuming, and give you a lot of extra surfaces to dust. Be a minimalist - decorate with fewer items, and keep the clutter out.
6. Size & height. Stairs are difficult to vacuum and bring cleaning supplies up and down, so building a single level home makes cleaning easier. Single level homes have fewer windows to wash and less siding to maintain. One story homes are far easier to clean. If you are building a new home, keep this tip in mind. Every square foot of your house has to be vacuumed, swept, dusted, painted, furnished, etc. For obvious reasons, smaller homes are easier to clean.
Every room in your house can be changed to cut some need for cleaning. The more you have to spend your time cleaning, the less you have to just sit down with a good book, or hang out with your family. Design with less in mind and have more time for living.
1. Use medium colors. Medium colors don't show dust and dirt as easily. Dust a black piece of furniture, and you can watch it fill up with dust again nearly immediately! Black sinks and black refrigerators start getting white build up on them from hard water. Use patterns with multi-colors in your flooring, carpet and countertops; they are great at camouflaging dust, dirt and fingerprints.
2. Install easy-to-clean materials. Use smooth materials and paint that is easy to wash. Rough materials, such as rock, are tough to dust, and tougher to wash. Install carpets in your bedrooms, living rooms and family rooms. Carpets are easier to clean than hard floors, because they only require one step to clean them. Install hard floors in your high traffic areas.
3. Build in fewer shelves. Short walls built for plant shelves are very difficult to clean, and are dust collectors. Cabinets should be built all the way to the ceiling so dust cannot collect on top. The bonus is more cabinet space for storage. Have you ever tried to clean on top of kitchen or other cabinets that do not go to the ceiling? Happy Homes Maids does it all the time, and there is no easy way to do it. Every shelf in your house collects dust. We have had to clean log homes before, and they are neat looking, but every single log has to be dusted because they are each like a shelf.
4. Use less grout. Never put tile countertops in a kitchen! Grout is porous and hard-to-clean. Tile in a shower is very difficult to keep clean from growing mold. The best product for showers and tubs is solid molded plastic, or shower walls that are one solid piece cut from granite, quartz, or pro marble (never use real marble because you can't clean it...or use it...without it getting scratched and stained).
5. De-clutter. About half of housework is caused by junk, litter, and clutter - having things around that we don't need and never use. Design and decorate your home with simplicity in mind. The less you have to pick up and dust under or pick up and vacuum under, the faster it will be to clean your home. Keep your furnishings simple as well; excess furniture can turn your home into an obstacle course for vacuuming, and give you a lot of extra surfaces to dust. Be a minimalist - decorate with fewer items, and keep the clutter out.
6. Size & height. Stairs are difficult to vacuum and bring cleaning supplies up and down, so building a single level home makes cleaning easier. Single level homes have fewer windows to wash and less siding to maintain. One story homes are far easier to clean. If you are building a new home, keep this tip in mind. Every square foot of your house has to be vacuumed, swept, dusted, painted, furnished, etc. For obvious reasons, smaller homes are easier to clean.
Every room in your house can be changed to cut some need for cleaning. The more you have to spend your time cleaning, the less you have to just sit down with a good book, or hang out with your family. Design with less in mind and have more time for living.
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