How To Keep A Big House Clean (Secrets + Schedule)

If you’re looking for ideas, and the motivation, to keep a big house clean, you’re in the right place! Here are the best tips, secrets, and sample schedule to keep your house clean all year long.

First, cleaning a big house is a lot so don’t be so hard on yourself! Every family works differently when it comes to cleaning, but it can become exhausting if you seem to be the only one on board with the upkeep.

With these tips, you can create a cleaning schedule that remembers all the important cleaning points and helps to divide up the tasks among those in the family so that you can finally have the clean and self-sustainable home you have dreamed of.

CHORE CHARTS

The most widely used tool when coming up with a cleaning schedule is a chore chart. Chore charts are simple, and they list out chores and tasks that need to be done on a regular basis. You can create a daily, weekly, or monthly chore chart for you and your family to follow.

FAMILY MEETINGS

Having open and honest communication among your family is key for many reasons. It helps to foster discussions about things that they may be bothered by, and it also helps to get everyone on the same page when it comes to housework.

HAVE SET SPACES TO PUT AWAY ITEMS

This may seem like too simple of a solution but, especially when it comes to smaller children, the excuse of, “But I don’t know where it goes!” It likely gets thrown around a lot.

STAY AHEAD OF THE MESS

Just like I mentioned above, staying ahead of the mess is essential to maintaining cleanliness in a larger household. Whether that means assigning areas for regularly misplaced items, or cleaning as you go!

MAKE SURE EVERYONE DOES THEIR PART

It can be tempting to let members of your family slide and not do their part, but it doesn’t teach your children responsibility by watching you clean an entire house by yourself. You have to make sure everyone plays a part so that the chores are distributed fairly evenly.

The best way to get everyone on board is to have some input from everyone in the family. Everyone will have to do their part, so they should have a say in the creation of the cleaning schedule as well.