The Dining Room

Your dining room – a place where your family may assemble for dinner and for any and all special occasions. Regardless of how often it may get used, you want it clean and looking its best at all times. So how should we properly and efficiently clean it?

1. First, you will need the same tools that we used in the previous post to clean the living room.

2. Upon entering the room if there is a doorway, make sure to dust the molding above the entrance. Next, as always, approach the room from top to bottom and left to right - catching those ceiling corner cobwebs, wall fixtures, drapery tops, window shelves, etc.

Next, move to the center of the room, get your duster in hand and dust off that chandelier. Your duster should be sufficient, but if your chandelier is really dirty, I will cover that as a segment by itself later on.

3. Proceed to clean the furniture in the dining room. The process of cleaning the furniture follows the same as you would in the living room, except for the dining table and chairs. Different dining table tops require different cleaning methods. If you have an all glass top - use your glass cleaner, if you have an all wood table – use your furniture polish and polish cloth (if this table doesn’t get a lot of use you won’t need to use the furniture polish each time, you can just wipe it down with just the polish cloth with nothing added to it.)

You will save a lot of time if you clean or polish half of the table at a time, and then dust the chairs closest to you. Next, wipe the arms, rungs (area underneath the chair that joins the legs together),  legs of the chairs, and legs and or pedestal of the table.  Oh, and don’t forget to brush off the seats. Now, move over to the other side and repeat. Look, you just saved yourself a lot of time by not retracing your steps.

4. Finally, vacuum your floors and carpets and you’re done.

Until the next time, today, and everyday put comfort in your life....Ciao!