Cleaning a messy house or room can feel overwhelming. In fact, it can cause you to feel completely paralyzed, with no strength at all to clean up the mess because you don’t know where to start. The truth is that everyone will have their own idea on how to tackle the mess and clean it up, but for those who simply don’t know where to start this step by step guide will help you get the job the done.
If you are not used to cleaning up a really messy house then you are going to need to set aside a day when you can be free for a few hours to tackle that house cleaning.
Grab a garbage bag and start at one end of your house and work your way through every room picking up all of those items that need to be thrown away.
Once you have collected all the trash and disposed of it go back through the house and pick up the piles of laundry and get your first load of washing started.
Once the laundry is started, start from one end of your house and clean one room at a time. Leave the kitchen for last so that you can leave cleaning supplies out on the cabinets and have access to water when needed without messing up the area you have already cleaned.
When cleaning the bedrooms in your home, start by making the bed. If sheets need to be changed then do so, otherwise just make the bed since making the bed makes the entire room look neater almost instantly. Any items that don’t belong in the room, remove and either put away or take to the room the objects belong in.
Straighten up all the stands in your living room removing and putting away any items that belong to other rooms. Vacuum any overstuffed furniture making sure to remove the cushions and vacuum both sides of the cushions. Dust all of the furniture from top to bottom.
Your dining room can become a catch-all for opened mail, and other small items, so you need to spend a few minutes picking up and putting objects where they belong. Then go through and dust the room from top to bottom including the table and chair legs.
Clean off all of your bathroom countertops, putting away items as you pick them up. Spray down your tub with a spray cleaner and then put toilet bowl cleaner into the toilet bowl. Now would be a good time to take care of some of that laundry you have been doing as you cleaned your home.
Start cleaning the kitchen by emptying the dishwasher and putting away the clean dishes. Then clean off your countertops, putting any used dishes in the dishwashers as you go.