Reset Your Home in 4 Weeks - Week 3: The Living Areas

It’s week 3 of our Reset Challenge! This week we are focusing on our Living Areas. You can choose just one room of your house, or multiple rooms. For this challenge I will be doing our main living room and then 2 other rooms on our main floor. 

Let’s get started!

Day 1: Declutter

• Clear off your surfaces. Be sure only the things that are useful or important remain.

• Make it easy on yourself to clean your living areas.

• In one of our rooms we have bookshelves. I will quickly look through and take out the books we no longer need, but I will also use this time to straighten them and get books that are out of place back where they belong.

Day 2: Baseboard, Blinds, Woodwork

• Dust or vacuum and then wipe down your baseboards, blinds, and woodwork - for me this includes the chair rail in one of my rooms.

Day 3: Furniture

• Vacuum your furniture. Wipe down all the wooden/solid surfaces.

• If you want to go an extra step, wash your blankets and throw pillow covers.

Day 4: Lights, Ceiling Fans, Vents, Etc.

• Look up! Sometimes we neglect to dust our lamps and lightbulbs.

• Using an extendable duster like THIS makes it really easy to dust your celling fans and vents.

Day 5: Accessories/Decor

• On this day we are cleaning all of the accessories and decorations.

• Take this time to be sure you aren’t trying to fit too much on your mantle or coffee table.

• Dust those mirrors and frames.

• If it’s been a while since you’ve dusted some of your pieces you might need to use warm soapy water to get them really clean.

Be ok with living with blank spaces. I have left areas blank for months until I determine exactly what I want in that space. Sometimes we feel the need to fill up a space and that can lead to clutter.

Your home should really begin to look different by this point! Enjoy that fact that you can clean your space quickly now that it has been minimized and deep cleaned!