Cleaning Your Living Room

Written by Jill Culley (last updated July 27, 2020)

Whether you live in an apartment or a house, your household probably contains one main room such as the living room. This is the room with all of the activity and, hence, the room that gets dirty and cluttered the easiest. Between the foot paths and entertaining with food, your living room gets dirty pretty fast.

Because it does get dirty so fast, that means you should clean your living room more regularly than you do other rooms in the house, especially if you have guests over frequently. I clean my living room once per week and I get medium traffic through there weekly. My cleaning routine includes dusting, vacuuming/mopping, polishing and using disinfectant on surfaces. My routine is fairly automatic now that I've done it for so many years but there is a particular way this room should be cleaned.

  1. Always dust first. You should always dust your room first. This includes dusting pictures, sculptures, television sets and other consoles, coffee tables, bookshelves and window sills. The reason why you dust first is to move all of the large particles off of the surfaces that either a mop, broom or vacuum cleaner can't get to on their own. I like to use Swiffers to collect the dust with. It captures the smaller particles in the fibers and moves the larger particles onto the floor for later pick up.
  2. Clean the glass. I clean anything glass next for the same reason I dust first: it shifts large particles downwards for pick up with mops, brooms and vacuums. Windex is a simple enough cleaner for the job.
  3. Polish. Always polish your wood furniture weekly if you can. My coffee table is solid wood and I use End Dust to remove dust particles and keep the surface clean. The polish also helps keep particles off of the surface better than if you didn't polish at all.
  4. Vacuum, mop or sweep. The last step to cleaning any room is to always vacuum, mop or sweep. Since you've pushed all of the larger particles onto the floor, you want to pick them up and throw them out.

Cleaning your living room is a fairly important task to accomplish weekly because it is the entryway to your household. Simple steps like those listed above are a great way to help keep your living room in tip top shape for your family and your guests.

Author Bio

Jill Culley

MORE FROM JILL

Cleaning Silverware

Silverware should be cleaned fairly regularly, at least 3 times per year. It doesn't take very much time to keep your ...

Discover More

Finding the Best Laundry Detergent

Finding the right laundry detergent is important for your machine and your clothes but picking the right one can seem ...

Discover More

Cleaning Living Room Furniture

From hardwood to soft cloth, a living room has a lot of different surface types to keep clean. A methodical approach to ...

Discover More

The Power of Microfiber! Zwipes Microfiber Cleaning Cloths will become your favorite tool for every cleaning task. This 36-cloth package is perfect for hundreds of uses in the garage, kitchen, bathroom, laundry, and all around the house. Each cloth is tough, streak-free, lint-free, reusable, and washable. Check out Microfiber Cleaning Cloths today!

More Cleaning Tips

Does Oxygen Bleach Remove Creosote Stains?

If you have a fireplace and ever watched those oxygen bleach commercials, then chances are you have asked yourself a ...

Discover More

Grand Piano Care

Grand pianos are a wonderful piece of musical equipment that can add elegance to just about any home. However, if you ...

Discover More

Clean Up Soot and Your Fireplace

These neat tricks allow you to easily remove soot and ash from the inner surfaces of your fireplace. If you add salt to ...

Discover More
Subscribe

FREE SERVICE: Get tips like this every week in Cleaning Tips from Tips.Net. Enter your address and click "Subscribe."

View most recent newsletter.

Comments

If you would like to add an image to your comment (not an avatar, but an image to help in making the point of your comment), include the characters [{fig}] (all 7 characters, in the sequence shown) in your comment text. You’ll be prompted to upload your image when you submit the comment. Maximum image size is 6Mpixels. Images larger than 600px wide or 1000px tall will be reduced. Up to three images may be included in a comment. All images are subject to review. Commenting privileges may be curtailed if inappropriate images are posted.

What is nine minus 4?

There are currently no comments for this tip. (Be the first to leave your comment—just use the simple form above!)


Newest Tips
Subscribe

FREE SERVICE: Get tips like this every week in Cleaning Tips from Tips.Net. Enter your address and click "Subscribe."

(Your e-mail address is not shared with anyone, ever.)

View the most recent newsletter.