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15+ Best Diwali Home Cleaning Tips: Get Your Home Festive Ready!!!
October 27, 2021
Last updated on January 16th, 2023 at 05:34 am
The popular festival of Diwali is just about a week away and you all must be busy prepping up your homes for this grand Indian festival.
As Indians strongly believed that it is on Diwali that Goddess Lakshmi enters their homes and bless them with happiness and prosperity, they begin cleaning their homes with good dedication.
But sometimes, people also feel fretful seeing their entire house to be cleaned in front of them. With every passing day, they tend to lose their energies with such a mammoth amount of work to be completed in such a short span of time. So, it is always better to create a plan for Diwali house cleaning so that everything goes the way as it is planned. You definitely don’t want to exhaust yourself or fall sick just before this fantastic festival and therefore, we brought an amazing list of Diwali cleaning hacks or tips for your home.
Table of Contents
Much-Needed Diwali Cleaning Supplies
Before you practically begin the Diwali cleaning of your home, you should gather the below supplies…
- Lemon
- Soft clothes, scrubs, and brushes
- Disinfectant liquids
- White vinegar
- Baking soda
- Lemon
- Fabric softener
- Stain removers
- Microfiber cloth
- Garbage bags
- Gloves
Useful Tips for Diwali Cleaning
1. Division of your home
Making your entire house Diwali ready is not a single day job. You have to be extremely systematic and organized in making your home look ravishing for the upcoming festive occasion. So, you can allot your days for different sections of your house such as bedroom, kitchen toilet and bathroom, living room, and puja room. Prepare a schedule for deep cleaning of your home for Diwali as per your convenience and time availability. Dividing your house for cleaning will save your time and do not overload you with work.
2. De-clutter your home
Purging your home of the unwanted items is the foremost task to be performed during the home cleaning for Diwali. What to keep and what to dispose are hard to decide but you have to do it anyways! Get rid of all the trash and unnecessary items from your house to make space for the new ones for the festival. You can also donate your old clothes, books, or furniture to charitable trusts or NGOs and bring a smile on someone’s faces. Decluttering your home will make your home look spacious and vibrant.
3. Painting your house
People painting their houses are a common sight during the festival of Diwali. This not just cleans the entire house deeply but also bring a new and festive appeal to it. White washing your house during Diwali cleans your house and blesses it with positivity and good luck. Paint your house with pastel shades as they illuminate the house really well.
4. Wash your curtains, covers and carpets
Washing curtains, sofa and cushion covers, and carpets is not a regular job and often left unattended during the routine cleaning. Diwali is the best time to get them washed or dry cleaned for that fresh look to your home. In order to clean all the dust and dirt from them, you can use a stain remover and fabric softener to keep them soft and stain-free.
5. Kitchen Cleaning
Kitchen is the most important place in a home. It should be the first one to start your home cleaning for Diwali with. You can use baking soda, dishwashing liquid, vinegar, and some warm water for the cleaning. You can clear the kitchen racks from all the boxes and utensils and start wiping the racks. You can also use warm water to wipe the containers. You can use a duster cloth to clean the glassware.
6. Floor cleaning
Use good quality floor cleaner to clean the floors for that perfect finish and shine. Sweepers, brooms, mops, vacuum cleaners, and old clothes can be used to wipe the flooring. You can use bathroom cleaners and baking soda to clean the floor of the toilets and washroom.
7. Cleaning bed boxes
As we usually keep those items in a bed box that are not be used on a regular basis, sometimes it remains closed for a long time. This can lead to dust, dirt and insects in it. Therefore, you should keep cleaning of the need boxes on a priority list for Diwali home cleaning. You can use detergent powders or just a dry cloth to clean the bed boxes. You can also keep your blankets and cushions in your bed boxes in sunlight to kill germs.
8. Cleaning electrical appliances
People can use glassware cleaners to clean electrical appliances such as music players, television sets, refrigerators, and washing machines. You can first remove the dust using a dry cloth and then you can use liquid spray cleaners to wipe them clean avoiding scratches.
9. Clean the mattress
Mattresses are prone to dust and dirt and therefore, should be cleaned in a routine. Vacuuming the mattresses to remove the dirt stuck in the ends is the right way to clean them. You can also use a mattress using vinegar and baking soda. Spray some vinegar on the mattress and then sprinkle some baking soda to leave it for some hours. You can either brush or vacuum it to finally remove the bad smell and dust mites.
10. Use disinfectants
Once your house is Diwali ready, don’t forget to wipe everything with a mild disinfectant to clean the surfaces from all the germs. Ensure you don’t use excessive disinfectants on electrical appliances.
11. Clean living room
As people spend most of their time in the living room, it is the place that gets most cluttered. Dispose the items that you no longer use. Wash curtains, drapes and blinds. Clean the windows from the insides and outsides. Use a soft and damp cloth to clean TV, coffee tables, shelves, and more. Clean the ceiling fans, photo frames, lampshades, lamps, decorative pieces using a vacuum cleaner.
12. Bathroom cleaning
Remove shampoos, soaps, face and body washes, buckets, etc. from the bathroom and scrub the shelves with a good liquid cleaner. Toilet cleaner is the best to clean the WC from the inside. The faucets, mirrors, taps and shower heads should be cleaned and scrubbed with a disinfectant.
Diwali House Cleaning Tips for Beginners
One of the biggest mistakes that people actually make while cleaning their homes for Diwali is using the inappropriate material or liquid to clean particular household items and damaging them. So, here we have brought a detailed list of what to use on what household items so that they remain intact and in good condition.
| 1. | Glass | White Vinegar | Clean your window glasses and table glasses with a concoction prepared with equal parts of vinegar and water. Spray it on the glass and then wipe it with a squeegee. After that, you can use a dry soft microfiber cloth for a perfect shine and finish. |
| 2. | Brass ornaments | Vinegar, salt and flour/Brasso | As brass gets tarnished easily, so you use a paste made with half a cup of vinegar, flour, and a teaspoon of salt to treat your brass ornaments. Brasso, a chemical based liquid can also be used to clean the tarnished brass products. |
| 3. | Microwave/Oven | Lemon juice | As lemon has acidic properties, it makes a great cleaning agent. Just squeeze a lemon in a bowl of water and boil it in a microwave. Let it remain in the microwave or oven for about 15 minutes and then clean it with a dry tissue or cloth. Lemon also reduces odor from the microwave. |
| 4. | Hard water stains | Lemon and apple cider vinegar | Hard water stains on the utensils, taps, buckets, etc. are hard to remove with just hands. So, spraying liquid made from the lemon and apple cider vinegar on the surfaces and leaving it on for 20 minutes will remove those tough stains of water from them. |
| 5. | Ceiling fans | Pillow covers and soap water | The dust and dirt collected on the ceiling fan can be cleaned using a pillow cover. Cover the blades of the fans with it and then wipe the blades. The dust and dirt will get collected in the pillowcase rather than falling down. Then you can use a cloth dipped in soap water to wipe the fans for a gleaming finish. |
| 6. | Dish Soap & baking soda | Bathroom | The bathroom fittings made with ceramic or white marble accumulate germs and dirt on them. You can clean the wash basin using baking soda and dish soap. You can sprinkle some baking soda on the bathroom fittings and then scrub them using dish soap. |
| 7. | Hydrogen Peroxide & baking soda | Grout between tiles | The grout between the tiles is made of oil, grime, and dirt that is hard to get rid of. Take a tablespoon of baking soda and some hydrogen peroxide to make a paste. Now with the help of an old toothbrush, scrub between the tiles. |
The Ending Note
So, after you are done with your Diwali cleaning of your home, it’s time for Diwali decorations. Illuminate your homes with bright string lights to remove darkness and bring in happiness and prosperity. Hang lanterns on the doors and windows and spruce up your living room with some scented candles and lamps for that perfect festive décor. A rangoli is a must on Diwali and don’t forget to brighten up your homes with good luck houseplants.
We hope that you and your family have a great and safe Diwali 2021 with your near and dear ones.
Happy Diwali!!!
