Spring Cleaning: 3 Tips for Your Cleanest Home Yet

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Nancy Mitchell
Nancy Mitchell
As a former Senior Writer at Apartment Therapy, Nancy split her time among looking at beautiful pictures, writing about design, and photographing stylish apartments in and around NYC.
updated Feb 24, 2019
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Spring is here! It’s the season of flowers and bunnies and new life, and it’s also the season for throwing open the windows and doors and giving your home a really deep clean. We’ve dug through our Apartment Therapy video archives for some of our best cleaning tips. Here are three solutions and shortcuts that will have your home gleaming in no time.

Here’s a tip from Maxwell about how to get the chrome in your bathroom super shiny. For the tip, jump ahead to 1:30, or start from the beginning of the video for some advice about how to involve young children in cleaning.

Jump ahead to 1:53 for a great tip for getting your windows super clean. Maxwell also shares a recipe for a DIY green window cleaner.

And finally — having a perfectly clean house won’t matter much if it doesn’t smell clean. Pet odors can be really tricky to get out of carpets and textiles, but John Gleeson Connolly has a really simple solution.

Thanks for watching, and happy cleaning!

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