Spring Cleaning Tips For Your Home

It’s that time of year again where every home requires a little refresh and a spring clean. Not only is this a great time to give your home a deep clean, it’s the perfect opportunity to change up your current home design. By altering your furniture layouts, giving walls a fresh lick of paint or simply re-organising your possessions, you can reveal a brand new home interior style, without much commitment or effort! Here at Black By Design we love offering our customers advice with their home, hoping to inspire you to explore new realms of home design, or providing suggestions on how to update your current situation. Here, we’d like to offer an overview on spring cleaning ideas suitable for all homes.

Step 1: Cleaning

We know that you will be aware of the usual and obvious cleaning solutions; hoovering all carpets, brushing wooden floors, using bleach in the bathroom and kitchen. But what about those places that you don’t consider cleaning during your weekly or daily cleaning routine? Places such as shelves, skirting boards, door handles, mirrors and even television screens are often neglected! A part of spring cleaning is treating your home to a thorough clean to get things shining again.

We’ve got some key tips on how to spring clean your home efficiently and effectively:

• Vacuum all rooms and consider throwing out any rugs that have seen better days, or revive them with a spin in the washing machine
• Wipe down any mirrors and the insides of windows to remove any condensation marks
• Make up a cleaning solution suitable for wooden floors (if applicable) and use a microfiber mop to get right into the corners
• Dust and polish coffee tables, shelves, televisions
• Air out mattresses or turn them over, and leave windows and doors open to allow air to circulate throughout the house
• If you’re keen to get the spring clean over with, set aside a day to do it and challenge yourself!

Step 2: Declutter!

A key element of conducting a spring clean is freeing yourself and your house from unnecessary clutter. You may even find the process of getting rid of unwanted things therapeutic! Repurpose homeware items or furniture, give to charity or offer them to family and friends before considering binning anything. You’d be surprised by what you can do with a few unwanted homeware pieces. Decluttering your wardrobe and installing some key seasonal clothing pieces whilst putting winter clothes away in storage can be a simple way to get your wardrobe more streamlined for the spring and summer months.

Step 3: Organise

Once you’ve tackled the cleaning and shed the excess clutter you no longer need, it’s time to get organised! Tidy shelves (whilst giving them a quick clean) and utilise your organisational skills to create a more thought-out approach to the way you treat your home storage solutions. With bookcases, why not order books in a colour coordinated fashion for a fun and aesthetically pleasing addition to a room? With shelves, use stylish ornaments to add decoration or to break up an otherwise ‘messy’ looking shelf. It could also be a simple case of setting yourself and your family some firm rules about keeping things in one place instead of scattered around in different rooms. An organised home is a happy home, and will help keep your daily life running smoothly in the long run! Let’s take a look at how to keep your home organised to get the most out of your living space.

Our Neat Freak gift range here at Black By Design is an excellent place to start when thinking about how to keep your home organised due to the various organisational items available.

When it comes to bedroom organising, it’s so easy to put things in drawers and the wardrobe, and not thinking about them until the time comes when you need them. To solve this, we love the Umbra little black tee and little black dress accessory organisers which are super convenient in their genius design. With individual compartments of various sizes, you’re able to store away cosmetics, jewellery and toiletries in one place. The coat hanger at the top of the accessory organiser is perfect for hanging in a wardrobe or on a door for easy access. This Umbra home organiser is an absolute must-have!

A place that can fall by the wayside when it comes to tidiness in the home is definitely the communal shoe rack or cupboard. Whether you keep your shoes in the hallway or in a utility room, we recommend a shoe locker from Garden Trading which will keep pairs of shoes together and keep these rooms looking more organised. No more wasting precious minutes on a morning trying to find the other shoe! The natural fir wood Garden Trading shoe racks with cubby holes also provide a convenient shelf top to place decorative ornaments, flowers or keys.

A fine way to keep your home organised in an aesthetically pleasing manner, is to take a look at our stylish ranges of storage solutions for the home, which includes some wonderful kitchen storage options and a collection of home organisers. Invest in a unique freestanding bookcase from Wireworks for a refreshed take on the classic bookcase look. Not only can it hold your favourite literature, you can adorn it with decorative ornaments or small succulents to make use of the shelves according to your personal home style. Update your storage solutions so that they provide a multifunctional use; practicality and style.

We hope that we’ve provided the right inspiration for you to feel ready to tackle a spring clean in your home! From bigger furniture changes to smaller things you can do, by reassessing your home interiors look you can create an entirely refreshed feel home, just in time for summer.