Happy New Year! You're probably putting away all of your Holiday décor for the season. We want to give you some tips to clean and organize your home office. Here are things you can do in January:
Here are 7 Steps to a Clutter-Free Home:
- Pick up things that you use daily but don’t have a home. One of the biggest rules of an organized home: Everything should have a place.
- Take everything out of all of your closet and dresser drawers. If you haven’t used it, read it, or worn it in a year, donate it.
- In the kitchen, throw away every container that doesn’t have a matching lid, and every lid that doesn’t have a matching container. Abandon your useless appliances. If it doesn’t work or if you haven’t used it in over a year, throw it away or donate it.
- Dust the ceiling, crown molding, light fixtures, ceiling fan, around the windows, walls, corners and baseboards.
- Clean picture frames using a micro-fiber cloth. After dusting, spray glass cleaner onto the cloth and wipe the glass in the frames.
- Wipe the windows and mirrors with glass cleaner and a cloth. Then, clean any other glass surfaces and decorative items in the room. Remove lamp shades and clean the bulb and base of each.
- Declutter all of your bathrooms at once, so you can take an accurate inventory of all of those long-lost soaps and lotions you forgot existed. Empty and wipe down all of your drawers, shower caddy’s, cabinets, etc. Throw away what’s expired, what’s nearly empty (that you don’t use). The same goes for medicine and makeup.
Here are some other items we recommend monthly:
- Trash cans: bleach outside trash cans and recycle bins, disinfect inside trash cans (monthly)
- Garbage disposal: run baking soda and citrus fruit rinds through the disposal to freshen the lines and crushed ice to sharpen the blades (monthly)
Want some ideas for decorating your home this month? Our Pinterest board "Home Decorating for Every Occasion" has ideas for ways to decorate your home each month of the year.
Keeping up maintenance on your home is the best way to keep the value of your biggest investment. We put these lists together monthly based on what we see in the real estate market and home inspections. Taking the time to do these things each month can keep you from feeling overwhelmed when you think of selling, and give you peace of mind.
If you need a vendor to help, like a home cleaner, window cleaner, professional organizer, or any others, give us a call for a referral 904.826.3690.