Maintaining a fresh and clean home with contractors everywhere and dust all over is a lot of work😩
Over the last year, we’ve been on a declutter journey alongside the renovations and keeping things at minimal in our home.
We’ve done the following to limit dust and clutter in our home:
1. Recycle paper, newspaper, boxes etc and keep them outside your home. They gather so much dust!
We have officially moved our work to the offices and all boxes and deliveries are done there to limit dust and maintain cleanliness (and order) – thank goodness! Hopefully we don’t have to deal with another hard lockdown again! *touch wood*
2. We change all sheets and deep clean pillows weekly. We store clean sheets in airtight containers.
3. We’ve introduced air purifiers (available on shop.artofsuperwoman.com) into our home.
4. We got rid of most wardrobes and introduced drawers and rails into our home (will share final product once complete. (This was hard for my old school hubby to wrap his mind around)
5. Line surfaces that tend to gather a lot of dust – especially those hard to reach surfaces – with some long tissue paper (baking paper works too) and Prestik it down (book selves, too of wardrobes etc)
6. Cut back on clothing (clutter = unnecessary dirt clinging onto stuff)
7. Washing the dogs regularly and brushing them as often as possible
8. Vacuum with a HEPA filter vacuum
9. We’ve also reduced the amount of washing hang time by using our Spindel and draining alot mroe water out and hanging the laundry on an indoor rail. This is mostly because of the amout of outdoor dusk and bugs there’ve been lately… This is amazing during rainy seasons too!
PS. A good vacuum should keep the dust trapped inside and not scatter it back into the air in the room you’re vacuuming.
I have asthmatic and allergy prone kids… so we can’t risk the dust settling back into the rooms we’re cleaning.
As we complete the renovation journey, I’ll share more of these details and the products with you, for now check out the below.
Partnered: Design Joburg – 8 Must Sees & Do’s at Design Joburg 2022
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Water Filtration In Your Home
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Burglar Proof Your Home With Builders Warehouse This Festive Season
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Making Space At The Table
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Give-Away | We’re Giving Away A Rust-Oleum Busy Box
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Home Is A Journey, Not A Destination
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Home Is A Price To Be Paid
We continue Part 2 of our Troubling Home Series, looking at the complicated relationship that those who break with tradition have with home. Critical Diversity scholar and multi-award-winning author, Jamil F. Khan shares reflections on the difficulties with finding belonging in family and home while not conforming to cultural and societal norms.
Let’s Talk About Water Scarcity & Water Harvesting with JoJo
With the rising cost and looming water scarcity in South Africa , rainwater harvesting is becoming vital.
Aos has partnered with JoJo, to raise awareness, and provide you with the necessary information and solutions around this issue.
I’m Never Going Back Home – Even For The Holidays
For many of us the holiday season is a time of joyous reunions with our relatives, but have you ever stopped to consider that for some the holidays might not be a joyous season?In this 4 part series about the complexities of home and the holidays, award-winning author Jamil F Kahn, draws parallels between queer people, victims of domestic violence, immigrants and wanderers who brave the brutality of strange newness in search of a home that is not enforced but created.
Our Journey of Making Our Home JoJo
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