Spring Cleaning: 7 Steps to Completely Reset Your Home

Spring is in the air, and there’s no better time to give your home a full reset. After a long winter spent getting cozy indoors, our houses can accumulate a lot of clutter and grime, and starting fresh for the warmer months is a surefire way to get you feeling excited.

Coming up, we’ll explore the seven spring cleaning steps to take to completely reset your home and have everything feeling fresh and brand new again.

Remember, you don’t need to do all of these tasks in one day or even one week! Take it all one step at a time so you don’t get burned out or overwhelmed. 

Make a Plan and Schedule Services

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail! Before getting started and impulsively ripping clothes out of your wardrobe, make a plan of everything that will need to be done to reset your home, how long it will take, and when to schedule it in. 

Consider which rooms need makeovers, how many closets need to be decluttered, and whether any furniture needs fixing. You might need to get in touch with residential pest control services or professional carpet cleaners. These are good tasks to get out of the way first. Make your plans, book your services, and then get stuck into it. 

Declutter and Donate

Next up, it’s time to get rid of everything that doesn’t need to be there. Decluttering is often the step that people struggle with the most because it’s tough to part with the things in our homes. 

However, if you really want a thorough reset, you need to get a little ruthless. Go through each room of the house and assess the cupboards, drawers, and even items standing out in the open. Assess what you own and take an especially close look at items that haven’t been worn or used in the past year. If it’s not useful, it needs to go! 

Deep Cleaning

Once you’ve lightened your load and reduced the amount of stuff in your home, it’s a good time to start getting into the serious nitty-gritty cleaning that we avoid all year long. It might not be the most exciting part, but giving your house a good deep clean is one of the most important steps of your spring cleaning routine.

This is where you need to take a day to move all the furniture away from the walls and scrub everything from top to bottom. Get rid of the grease in your kitchen, the dust on your ceiling fans, and the dirt behind the bathroom sink. Of course when you are doing a deep clean it’s important to use eco cleaning products, so we reduce plastic wastage through cleaner, greener alternatives. 

Organise With Purpose

Next, it’s time to organise your space. Getting your home organized isn’t something that should be done on a whim or at random – proper organisation requires thought and even some planning.

Use a pen and paper to allocate specific categories or “jobs” to each cupboard, drawer, or area in your home, and begin to organise those spaces. Once you know exactly where all your items are to live, you can start incorporating storage boxes, baskets, and other items to assist you in neatening things up and keeping everything in place. 

Refresh Your Décor 

Now that the hard work is done and your home is neat, clean, and organised, you can move on to a little spring fun. You’ve earned the right to give your space a little bit of a makeover by refreshing your décor. 

Take a look at your space and consider which aspects you’re not completely in love with anymore, and decide what you can do to breathe new life into those areas. Sometimes, you might want to rearrange the entire room, and other times, a simple piece of wall art can change the game completely. 

Do a Digital Declutter

We all know that a cluttered environment leads to a cluttered mind, but have you ever thought about how this applies to our digital environments too? Our phones and laptops take up a lot of our attention. 

This is why a thorough digital declutter is another great step to add to your spring-cleaning routine. Delete unused files, useless apps, and blurry photographs, and reset your devices to feel clean and new, just like your home. 

Create a Cleaning Routine

Finally, if you noticed that your spring cleaning was far more hard work than it should have been, then you might use this as a sign to create a cleaning routine.

A weekly and monthly cleaning routine will help ensure that dirt and clutter don’t build up too much and will keep your home in good nick all year round.