5 Tips on How to Keep Your House Tidy

Everyone wants to keep a clean and tidy house but this is no easy task especially if you have kids and/or pets. It will require regular care and effort but read on for 5 tips which should help any homeowner to keep their home much neater and tidier:

1. Declutter

First, it is a good idea to go room by room and throw away anything that you no longer use or need. Decluttering can be highly therapeutic and free up a tremendous amount of space in each room of the house. People often hold onto possessions even when they no longer need them which will only make a house more cramped and un-tidy over the years.

2. Create A Schedule & Routine

It is much easier to keep a home looking tidy and to stop it from becoming unclean when you have a schedule and routine that the whole family sticks to. This might in-clude taking it in turns to carry out various household chores and having a routine in place, such as tempting the dishwasher after breakfast, putting on the laundry, running over the vacuum etc.

3. Make the Home Easy to Clean

If cleaning your home takes a huge amount of time and effort then it is easy to put it off but if it is quick and easy then you won’t mind performing regular cleans. A few effective ways to make your home easier to clean include having laminate flooring, leather sofas and blinds instead of curtains.

4. Storage Solutions

When you have storage solutions throughout the home it can help to declutter and keep each room looking neat and organised – it should also stop you from losing items too. A good example of this is having console tables in the lounge which can look fantastic and also provide space for keeping items stored.

5. Get People to Clean Up After Themselves

When everyone in the house cleans up after themselves it can make a huge difference and reduce the amount of work that you have to do. It is easy enough to clean up after yourself after making a quick snack in the kitchen, plus this should also encourage your children to be neat and tidy when they move out.

Hopefully, these 5 tips will help you to keep your home much neater and tidier. It can be difficult to unwind when your house is constantly untidy and it can also be embar-rassing when you have friends and family over. Implementing the above tips will make it much easier to keep on top of housework and allow you to keep a home that you can take pride in.

*This is a collaborative post and the photo is from Pexels*