General Home Cleaning

This is great general housekeeping advice that friends pass along to one another. Just general, good-to-know stuff about keeping house.

If you live in a house, you have greasy fingerprints on the wall. You can't avoid them.  And heck, you can't really figure out how to clean them off...until now! Greasy fingerprints happen everywhere.  For example, I use coconut oil as a post-shower moisturizer.  I also have allergies and sneeze about...
I'm not going to beat around the bush; I'm pretty into my hair. And I have a lot of it. And I have a lot of hair brushes. And my daughter Riley has a few hair brushes too. And my husband Chad has a couple of hair brushes. So...
Oh no! It’s noon and you just found out your guests will be arriving early. With no time to spare, you must get to cleaning! So what do you do when you are strapped for time and want to make a good impression? Focus on these 5 areas and...
Tis’ the season when glitter, tinsel, and holiday trees invade the homes of thousands. But what do you do when the glitter and glam starts falling faster than snow and makes it’s way onto your carpet and clothing? You clean it up using these handy tips. We’ll break it down...
One of the most common questions I get asked is how to clean a shower properly. This is definitely one of the jobs that seems harder than it is. If you have the right tools, products, and technique, and do it regularly, you will be in good shape. If your shower...
"How do I clean my kids' toys?" might be one of the questions I'm asked most often. Time and again, my friends (who used to ask me if their butts looked good in their tightest clubbing outfit) are now asking me how to clean toys.  Oh, friends, how the...
Whether you know it or not, your house has a unique smell. It can range from a light, fresh scent all the way to a musty, stale, wet dog kind of smell. The unfortunate part is, you get so used to this smell that you don't even recognize it...
Grunge was cool in the 90s, not in your shower.  Just sayin'. If you have a shower, there's a really good chance you have a shower mat and shower curtain liner.  And, there's a super good chance that you haven't washed them lately (or ever)! Why They Get So Grungy These...
How appropriate a blog topic. Let me break down what this past week has been like for us here at Clean My Space headquarters... On Monday morning, Chad woke up with a bad cold and because Chad is a giant baby, he proceeded to spend the next 2 days in bed...
We spend good money upgrading our homes. Gorgeously designed homes; sigh.  We dream about them, pin ideas about them to our most treasured Pinterest boards, gawk at our neighbors' renos and take an extra long time shuffling down the aisles of home renovation stores.  We are literally obsessed with beautifying...
It’s the one thing that you can find in almost every home. Wooden cutting boards have become a staple item in kitchens everywhere. They provide a hard, durable surface for all your chopping and dicing needs. But many people don’t know how to properly care for their cutting boards....
"Clean your rooooooom!" Man, if I had a dollar for every time my parents yelled this very phrase at me when I was growing up, I'd probably still be doing this but I'd be doing it from a big old beach house along the California coast. It seems most of...
My fridge is disgusting, help! That's a comment we get quite often, so often that we decided to make an in-depth tutorial on how to clean your fridge properly.  Now I'll warn you, it's not a quick job (if done properly).  You can do some quick little cheats which take...
Dishwashers are NOT self-cleaning, at all.  In fact, they are little storage containers for your dirty little secrets.  Further, you can't get a good clean load through when your dishwasher is dirty.  They are known to harbour fungus, along with old food and proliferate bad odours throughout your clean...
Bathrooms are such a hot topic with our community. I don't know many people that love cleaning bathrooms, and I'd have to say I don't really like the job myself (although it's vacuuming I dislike doing the most).  So, because of this, I have devised a strategy that helps me...
You can find a microwave in just about every kitchen these days, and a lot of those microwaves need a good cleaning! Because microwaves are used so often, they get dirty really fast. At my house, we use our microwave at least twice a day. That’s 14 times a...