Have you ever just been sitting down, and then suddenly your eye catches something you have never noticed below? Like a huge amount of dust on a light, or a picture frame, marks or smudges on a wall, dog hair along the baseboards, dirty light switch plates, etc..? All of these have happened to me, and all quite recently. And I consider myself quite neat. But dust does not wait in the background, or dirt or finger smudges, they are always looming around every corner!
If you are up for some detail cleaning, here is what you should do.
Pick a room, or even a section of a room
Look at things that you might normally breeze over--the light switch plates, along the baseboards, picture frames, lights--like overhead bathroom lights, door knobs, all the knick knacks, just let your eye slowly wander and you will be amazed at what you find.
Clean it then and there, or you will just forget about it. Today I was sitting in the living room during my daughter's Christmas party, and there it was, like smudges--but only in a certain light, on the mill work between the living room and the dining room. So I cleaned it. I never saw it before. That is often how it is--details will just suddenly present themselves to you.
There is nothing wrong with surface cleaning, even speed cleaning when needed. Sometimes I really breeze by stuff or do it quickly myself. But I can tell the difference when I spend time on the details, it is kind of like things emerge from the shadows and really stand out--details do matter.
If you are up for some detail cleaning, here is what you should do.
Pick a room, or even a section of a room
Look at things that you might normally breeze over--the light switch plates, along the baseboards, picture frames, lights--like overhead bathroom lights, door knobs, all the knick knacks, just let your eye slowly wander and you will be amazed at what you find.
Clean it then and there, or you will just forget about it. Today I was sitting in the living room during my daughter's Christmas party, and there it was, like smudges--but only in a certain light, on the mill work between the living room and the dining room. So I cleaned it. I never saw it before. That is often how it is--details will just suddenly present themselves to you.
There is nothing wrong with surface cleaning, even speed cleaning when needed. Sometimes I really breeze by stuff or do it quickly myself. But I can tell the difference when I spend time on the details, it is kind of like things emerge from the shadows and really stand out--details do matter.
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