The kitchen is not only a place of attraction for the whole family for a delicious dinner or a light Saturday breakfast but also a room that gives the hostess the greatest difficulty in maintaining cleanliness in it. There are some easy ways to make your kitchen look tidy and look like it’s on the cover of a magazine.
How To Keep Your Kitchen Clean?
Here are some tips you need to follow to keep your kitchen neat and clean:
No extra items of utensils and household appliances
You should carefully inspect everything that is stored in the kitchen and ruthlessly get rid of all kinds of unused jars, boxes, and containers, and throw away all cracked plates, cups with broken handles, and a towel that has turned gray from numerous washes. You should also deal with all non-working household appliances – the fewer small items in the kitchen, the easier it is to clean.
Minimize open storage systems
Despite the attractive appearance of jars on the shelves, pans and spatulas suspended on the rails, they will always be a magnet for fat, which will definitely collect on these dishes during cooking. So it’s much more rational to put everything under closed cabinet doors. And if you want to put your grandmother’s service on public display, let the doors of the display cabinet be made of transparent glass.
Clean sink rule
This rule, which says that the sink should always be cleaned to a shine, was invented by American housewives of the early 20th century, but has not lost its relevance even now. Perhaps there is nothing untidier than the sight of dirty dishes with leftover food mixed with cutlery and glasses in the sink. Therefore, make it a rule to wash dishes immediately after cooking or immediately after eating.
The clean slab rule
Equally important in terms of maintaining the cleanliness of the kitchen space is the cleanliness of the stove. Only a clean stove with its mirror shine can give a feeling of cleanliness to the entire kitchen, even if you yourself see with the trained eye of the hostess that your kitchen is far from the concept of ideal cleanliness. Even if it’s a wooden stove that keeps your house warm, it must be kept clean. You can find a wood stove for sale online that will help you heat your apartment.
All surfaces in the kitchen should be easy to clean
It would seem that an elementary rule, which has recently been increasingly violated in interiors, the design of which can be seen on television or in magazines. Wallpaper on the walls, carpet tiles, curtains with an abundance of ruffles and assemblies, raw stone in the decoration of the kitchen backsplash will make the work of maintaining cleanliness truly slavish and endless.
Replace these impractical materials for the kitchen with ceramic tiles, linoleum, washable paint, and the time spent on cleaning will immediately be noticeably reduced. And hang floral curtains in your daughter’s room.
Use multiple light sources
To visually hide not very clean kitchen surfaces, turn off the overhead light, and instead turn on several side light sources – floor lamps, sconces, directional spots and use warm spectrum light. These light scenarios illuminate the furniture from an unusual angle, create softness and comfort, and also hide the lack of cleanliness in the room
Use a variety of cleaning products
Long gone are the days when housewives were content with one universal remedy for cleaning any surfaces. Now in all supermarkets, you can find a lot of detergents, and cleaning products for different types of dirt and various surfaces. It is worth taking a closer look at them because each of the products was specially developed for easy cleaning of some surfaces.
And the dishwashing detergent will not cope with the pollution of the stove and will leave indelible stains on the windows and glass doors of the cabinets. Do not forget also about melamine sponges, which housewives love, which easily copes with dirt on furniture facades, tiles, linoleum, laminate, and household appliances.