Flawless Living Room – How to Achieve the Perfect Look

Beautiful places in homes are the living rooms. These rooms are most commonly the hosts of any guests and their looks are quite important for the impression you want to leave in a person. Maintaining a living room is fairly easy and requires certain cleaning and organising procedures, which need to be done regularly.

Depending on your preferences and needs, your living room can be quite different from your neighbour’s, so you need an individual cleaning and organising checklist, if you want to maintain its perfect looks. Although there might be differences, most living rooms are united by either the same or similar objects and interior pieces. Couches, sofas, stools, coffee tables, carpets, TV, curtains, shelves, books, magazines. If not all of the mentioned, at least the majority of them can be found in every living room. The cleaning procedures should be tailored more precisely for your different interior items, such as blinds, flowers, plants, bare floors, fireplace, ceiling fan, etc.

Just to make sure you know everything you should do, we will include the different types of living room interiors and the respective cleaning procedures. If you have pets, however, everything will change, because you will need to do more cleaning activities every day, because of pets’ fur and hairs. At the end, we will give you some organising tips.

Daily chores

Declutter surfaces. This is an important activity which contributes to the good looks of your living room. Piled mail and magazines, scattered books all over the place, socks and clothing items on the furniture. Does it sound familiar? If it does, make sure things change. For five minutes every evening, take care of scattered clothes; put books in one place; magazines, if not needed, should be thrown, or at least piled somewhere not so visible; mail is quite a problem for some people, so build the habit to take care of it right away, and newspapers as well.

If you have pets, dust every day and mop/vacuum floors/carpets. Pet hairs tend to go everywhere and stick to clothes, so you should take care of them daily.
Open windows to let fresh air in.
CDs, DVDs, games, toys and similar objects should be also put in their rightful places.
Clean spilled liquids right away.

Weekly duties

While daily living room maintenance is not that big of a deal and can be done quickly, especially with automated services that speed up the process, the weekly responsibilities you have are more and should be done attentively.

Remove cobwebs.
Dust blinds, furniture, curtains, shelves, etc.
Wipe glass surfaces, mirrors and picture frames.
Wipe surfaces with a damp cloth after removing interior pieces and taking care of them as well.
Wipe the TV screen and coffee table with a cleaning product and with a dry cloth afterwards.
Clean and disinfect light switches, remote controls, handles, etc.
Polish wooden furniture with a dry cloth and a few drops of olive oil.
Vacuum soft furniture and walls.
Mop floors/vacuum carpets.

Cleaning routines for every few months

Wipe windows
Deep clean carpets and rugs.
Deep clean upholstery.
Launder drapes/curtains, cushions and blankets.
Clean fireplace.

That’s not all

Regularly cleaning your living room is essential to its perfect looks, but it’s definitely not all that’s required. There are some important steps you need to do before you start using end of tenancy cleaners. The first one is when you move in. Whether you live under rent or you have your own place, the living room, just like any other room, must be furnished and decorated with taste. You cannot simply put various types of furniture with different shapes and colours, because it will not look tasteful. You have to match colours or have interesting contrasting combinations that somehow complete each other.

Some basic rules

The most proper colours for the walls of your living room vary a lot. You will not be sleeping in there, so you can make risky decisions, but remember to do it with taste. For example, if you want a red accent on your walls, you shouldn’t paint all of them in red, but only one. The other three can be in matching colours like pink or white. This way you will still have your red, but it will not be too much for the eyes. You can also put a red rug on the floor in the centre of the room. It will draw positive attention.

Another thing you should do is focus the attention at a certain part of the room. You can have spectacular French windows with beautiful curtains as your focal point, or you can put a big TV on one wall and put shelves all around it. It is important to remember that when the focus is at one part of the room it looks better and it’s not scattered around.

Keep in mind that all furniture should be pointed toward something. Whether it’s a TV or a large library, fireplace or windows, the furniture should have a certain direction.

Be careful with interior items like statuettes, paintings, pictures, souvenirs, flowers, candles, etc. if the whole room combines different bright colours, then it’s good to have something simple to draw attention and vice versa. If you want a white living room, with simple pastel colours, then you can safely put a brighter painting.