Now that you’ve organized your home, don’t spend all your time cleaning it! Use this checklist as a quick guide for maintenance housecleaning.
Living Room
- Vacuum
- Dust furniture, lighting and accessories
- Remove cobwebs from ceiling and corners
- Dust window sills and blinds
Dining Room
- Vacuum
- Dust furniture, lighting and accessories
- Remove cobwebs from ceilings and corners
- Dust window sills and blinds
Kitchen
- Spot clean cabinets and knobs
- Dust light fixtures
- Clean outside of all appliances
- Stovetop
- Countertops
- Backsplash
- Sinks
- Polish faucets and fixtures
- Dust furniture
- Dust window sills and blinds
- Floors
Bathrooms
- Mirrors polished
- Toilets cleaned top to bottom
- Showers
- Tub
- Vanities
- Sinks
- Polish faucets and fixtures
- Dust light fixtures
- Spot clean cabinets and knobs
- Dust towel racks
- Dust paper holder
Bedrooms
- Vacuum
- Dust
- Remove cobwebs from ceiling and corners
- Clean mirrors
- Dust window sills and blinds
- Change sheets
Laundry Room
- Clean top of washer and dryer
- Floor
- Sink and fixture
- Dust
- Remove cobwebs
Hardwoods
- Vacuum
- Dry Swiffer
- Mop with wood floor cleaner
Hallway
- Vacuum
- Dust
- Remove cobwebs
- Dust window sills and blinds
Stairs
- Vacuum
- Wipe railings
- Clean switch plates
General
- Empty trash and replace liners
- Dust picture frames
- Remove fingerprints from doors, moldings and switch plates
- Dust window sills and blinds
- Remove cobwebs
- Floors
Thanks for the list.
Sometimes making sure that you have all the right *tools* for the job is more time consuming than the actual cleaning process itself.
By: Are steam cleaners worth it? on May 23, 2011
at 11:28 pm
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By: Blinds installation on August 5, 2011
at 5:27 am
This is such a great list for making sure you covered all areas of house cleaning – thank you so much for this!
I always wondered if there was such a checklist as you can easily miss key areas in your house and they can require extra cleaning over time.
By: Window Cleaning Rounds on September 25, 2011
at 8:13 am