Challenges of living in a large space – How to clean large areas quickly

6 tips for those who want cleaning to go quickly in a large home!

When you have a large apartment or a big house with many rooms, it can feel like a huge project just to get a weekly cleaning done. But there are some tricks you can use to make cleaning easier and not take more time than necessary. Here are some tips that really work!

Help each other in the family

Getting the children to help is of course not always easy, but try to establish a routine that doesn’t just mean they have to clean their own rooms. It’s good for children to learn that you are a team and help each other. After all, they also use the rest of the house!

Make little slips of paper with different tasks and put them in a bowl. For example, dust books, tidy the hall, clear away dishes or vacuum. Worried that the children won’t want to help clean the toilet, for example?

Include small secret rewards for the most boring tasks, such as taking a short break to play video games after completing the task or getting a sweet treat. Suddenly, the children will be fighting over who gets to clean the toilet!

Use every trick in the book

It’s not a bad idea to use modern aids to keep a large home clean. A robot vacuum cleaner is definitely a good idea if you live in a large home. Set the time for it to vacuum each day and forget about it until it’s time to empty it. Clean floors hardly get any easier!

We ourselves would buy a more exclusive robot vacuum cleaner that empties itself so you don’t have to empty the “vacuum bag” every day. Here is an example of a truly exclusive robot vacuum cleaner.

You can also use a robot mop for cleaning the floors. How effective this is is hard to say, but it will definitely be cleaner than without one.

A cleaning schedule on the fridge so that everyone knows which chores to do on which day is also effective, especially if gold stars are given out. If there are many in the family it’s also worth reviewing storage, especially in the hall where school bags, shoes and hats end up in a jumble if you don’t think one step ahead, and then it’s very difficult to keep clean.

You could say the best way to keep a large house clean is to plan so that it doesn’t get particularly dirty in the first place.

Make a checklist

Of course, there is a lot that needs cleaning, both daily and weekly in large homes. Therefore, it is good to have a checklist to follow so that everything gets done. This also makes it easier for the family to help out and know what needs doing. Organise your checklist so it’s divided into daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly. This way nothing gets excessively dirty in between.

This, combined with a good reward system, should get your home sparkling clean.

Tidy clutter efficiently

Especially when living in a large house on two or more floors, it can become really tiring running up and down stairs to put things back in the right place. Therefore, a classic tip is to have a basket or a bag with you where you can put things that need to go up or down. When you go up or down the stairs anyway, you can take the basket and put everything in the right place. If you have children, you can also use separate baskets for them and put them in their rooms when full, so they can tidy their own things.

Put away out-of-season items

When you have a large hall and lots of space, sometimes you might avoid tidying away clothes and sports equipment you won’t use for several months.

But even if there is space to have them out, it looks quite messy. It can also feel a bit depressing to see winter hats and skates in July and flip-flops and beach tennis rackets in December.

So make it a habit to put away out-of-season items, and the hall will feel much less cluttered. It’s also fun to bring the items out when the new season arrives, then it feels like you’ve got a lot of new things!