Cleaning the Living Areas

Cleaning the living area is not a pleasant task but somebody has to do it. When cleaning do not forget that there are it could be worse - at least you are not cleaning the bathroom. Here are several tips for better cleaning services.

The lounge/living room/family room

This varies enormously from home to home. Some areas are kept fastidiously clean, tidy and junk-free so that they are always presentable when visitors call. Others look permanently like a hurricane just swept through. The important thing is that your home has a 'heart', where people naturally feel drawn to spend time and hang out with each other. Even if you live alone, there still needs to be a place where you do this with yourself. A house without a heart is not a home.


Sometimes the lounge or family room becomes the gathering point of this energy, or it may be the kitchen table or dining room. Wherever it is, it's important that the energy doesn't whiz through the space too quickly. It needs to be able to collect and blend before moving on its way. So this is one instance where a few well-placed ornaments can be placed to anchor the energy and create a homely atmosphere. Make it as inviting as possible, and it is particularly important to have an attractive centrepiece that symbolizes something relevant and inspiring to the people who live there. But if you have too much junk, the heart of your home will become stagnant, so it's important to get the balance right.

The kitchen

What is lurking in your kitchen cupboards? A man who came to one of my workshops shared with the group that after reading one of my articles he decided to eat his way through all the food he had and not go shopping again until he had consumed the lot. He said he managed to live like this for nearly eight weeks. In the end he was down to ten cans of food he didn't like, so he threw them out and went shopping!

Have a major clear-out of all your cupboards, and don't forget your fridge and freezer.