The web has how-to instructions for everything...even things you didn't know required directions. Most people know how to clean a bedroom, but to learn the secret to cleaning it in 10 minutes, we turned to WikiHow:
How To: Clean the Bedroom in 10 Minutes
WikiHow's tips for cleaning the bedroom in under 10 minutes:
• Get your cleaning supplies together: garbage bag, surface cleaner, broom, dustpan, etc.
• Give yourself a set amount of time for each task. For example, 1-2 minutes per step.
• Pick up anything that's not in its proper place.
• Gather all of the misplaced items on the top of your dresser or on your bed.
• Pick up each item and put it where it belongs.
• If there's no specific place for an item, put it in a separate pile.
• Make your bed, dust the furniture surfaces, and sweep or vacuum.
• Find a spot for each of the items in your misplaced pile.
If you want to be more thorough, give yourself 20 or 30 minutes, but try not to get stuck on any one step. Keep moving and you'll be finished faster.
Image via Living Etc.
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huh? this was worth posting? Great picture tho! :)
view E.M.H's profile
lovely bedroom! However, I certainly hope that people already know how to clean.
view twenty twenty-one's profile
Alternative - everything in a laundry basket, basket in the tub, curtain drawn, skip the vacuuming, make the bed. Time for guests!
view cakekick's profile
Even better alternative: keep the door closed.
view SFGail's profile
This presupposes the bedroom is in reasonably good condition to begin with.
Head/desk, head/desk. I have to get to work on decluttering.
view Aldyth's profile
Or, like my parents taught me from a very young age, once you're done with it, put it back. Because guests in 10 minutes? Who cares, the place already looks put together.
Channeling my mom, "Where do dirty clothes go? In the dirty clothes hamper; which is not the floor nor the chair."
view gretchen's profile
pick up dust bunnies with your socks! Feet are great dusters
view revolution9's profile
I love that little table. Any guesses on where it's from?
view Pixie's profile
My cat once got into my ventilation system and fell through the duct system into the furnace (thankfully it was summer and the furnace was off). It occurred to me later that I could spray her with Endust or Pledge and clean out my duct work.
view kimg924's profile
That bedroom is perfect.
view trygve's profile
kimg924...LOL
view IdRatherBeDesigning's profile
"This presupposes the bedroom is in reasonably good condition to begin with."
Which is generally not saying much. If any room is kept in reasonably good condition it's easy to tidy it up with these steps or your own. The hard part is making sure each room is in that condition, and that can take hours or days! In my experience all the music in the world doesn't make a difference.
view Gravity's Rainbow's profile
kimg924 That is an image that will stay with me for a long time. Maybe you could even rent her out and call her "Kitty Kleaner".
view SFGail's profile
Wow I love that chair. Can anyone source it?
view duckumu's profile
I love that gray!
view Laura's profile
Ditto on the gray. First person who sources that wall color (or something insanely close) gets a cookie.
view freneticfloetry's profile
duckumu
According to Living ect "Elsie armchair, designed by Russell Pinch for SCP"
http://www.scp.co.uk/
They don't mention the paint though :(
view Gravity's Rainbow's profile
Thanks, GR. Gorgeous chair. Too bad it costs two month's rent.
view duckumu's profile
Looooving that gray, no idea what it is though.
view jennyy's profile
I'm liking cement gray from Benjamin Moore, as seen in this bedroom:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/jan-jumpstart-2008-east/east-10-robin-sams-bedroom-reboot-041451
I know it's not an exact match...
view ace's profile