Do you want to host them in a clean house?
When a clean house is something that happens to you on a rare occasion, you tend to plan the visits of family members and friends to be able to clean your home up and save them from observing the disaster that’s happening in it. In other words, you like to know that someone’s going to come to visit beforehand. Preferably, at least a day or two in advance.
But, if the surprise guests decide to come over and call you to inform about their visit a few minutes prior to the arrival, there’re two things you may do to your messy house. You may either embrace the fact that you’ll have to host them in a mess of a home and hope for their understanding or make the full use of the precious minutes you have before the doorbell rings and make your house appear at least a bit cleaner and organized.
So, the next time that happens to you, move fast and use this speedy house cleaning tips to fake a clean home in 20 minutes or so.
How to make your home look clean in 20 minutes
- Concentrate on the opened areas and the rooms you’re going to host your guests in. set your priorities and create a cleaner area to keep the guests in. Your entryway, living room, kitchen, guest bathroom need to look put together. Your bedroom and other rooms can wait.
- Don’t shock them with the mess the second they enter your house. Organize the shoes at the doorway and the coats on the rack.
- Clean up your sink. It’s the first thing that will give away your attempts to make the house look clean in a rush. Thus, attach those dishes and shove them into the dishwasher and get it going. If you don’t have a dishwasher (poor you!) try to pile the dishes in your sink so that they don’t stick out of it too much. Wipe down the counters along the way.
- Deal with the clutter. Run through your home and pick up random clothes scattered all over the place, fold the blankets on the couches, arrange the pillows and stuff on the coffee table and pick up the rubbish. Throw the kids’ and pets’ toys in their toy baskets to clear out the floor. This way even if you don’t manage to vacuum the living room area before the guests come, your place won’t look like it never gets cleaned.
- While decluttering, keep a microfiber cloth and cleaning spray in your hands to dust the surfaces in the areas your guests will see to make your house appear freshly cleaned.
- Concentrate on getting the things off the surfaces they don’t belong to and removing stuff that will take too much time to put in order (like books, blankets, etc.). Don’t think about the where to put them away when you’re in a desperate rush. Just shove them in somewhere, so that no one is able to see them. Your guests won’t be opening the doors of your storage closets or peek into your cabinets, will they?
- If you don’t live alone, ask your roommates or family members to help you out. Give them the guidelines regarding which areas to clean to get the things going faster and finish in time.
- Clean floors = clean house. Thus, save at least 5 minutes for vacuuming, especially if you have carpets. It will make a huge difference in the way your home looks and feels, as the guests’ feet will ‘pick up’ that the floors are dirty the second they take their shoes off.
- If you’re going to have a company over for an hour or longer, the chances that someone will have to use the bathroom are pretty high. Thus, give your guest bathroom sink a quick wipe, ‘brush’ the toilet a few times and close the shower/bathtub curtain if that area is quite messy.
- Have an extra minute left – make your bed. It’s unlikely that you’ll be able to tidy the bedroom in the limited time conditions. Just try to make your bed in order to make the room appear semi-organized in case if someone decides to pop in it or if you’ll have to open the bedroom door to get something.
So, that’s how you can fake a clean house just in 20 minutes. But, if you don’t want to go through such stressful situations on a regular basis, don’t be ashamed enlist the house cleaners’ assistance every once in a while, especially if you’re too busy to be able to maintain a clean home without extra help. When it comes to tidying, it doesn’t matter how you get it done if it eventually gets done. Thus, go to HireRush.com to find professional cleaners at your local area not to worry about surprise visits and enjoy the feeling of living in a constantly clean house.
