With the feelings of resolutions and starting over in the air; for the first week of the new year, Clearlice is sharing tips on giving your home a Fresh Start as well.
In Part 1, we shared tips on freshening up the outside of your home. In this post – Part 2 – we will share tips to help you freshen up the inside of your home.
Here is to your Fresh Start in 2012!
A Fresh Look
Inside the Home
- Hold a garage sale! De-clutter the house and garage to turn trash into cash.
- Changing seasons = changing clothes. Hold a family wardrobe check as you bring out warm-weather clothing.
- Sort winter clothing for discards and donations before you store.
- Pick a weekend and enlist the family for Spring cleaning. Many hands make light work! Reward the team with dinner at a pizza parlor.
- Wash windows inside and out.
- Treat any wood furniture/flooring/shelves inside the house.
- While at the window area, check drapes and window treatments. Vacuum any dust; send dirtier drapes to the cleaners.
- Move furniture and vacuum beneath it.
- Dust, EVERYTHING!
- Arrange for a spring inspection of cooling systems. Air conditioning firms will give better service when they’re not busy so don’t wait for the first hot day!
- Drain sediment from hot water heaters.
Following these tips will not only help keep the feeling of a fresh start going into the New Year, but it will also ensure your spring – fall goes smoothly as well!
Happy 2012! To a clean year…
p.s. For the best in freshness and the surest way to be lice/nit/bed-bug free in 2012… Start the year with fresh linens as well!