The Entry: The Floor

At least three or four times a week, you will need to run a broom or vacuum over the entryway floor. This quickly will keep the dirt from traveling further into your home, and it will prevent soil from getting too deep in the carpet if you have carpet in the entry.

Keeping your entryway clean, dust free, and dirt clear is going to be the every day task that you are going to be faced with. This is what your guests are going to see first when entering your home. Organizing coats, shoes, book bags, toys and the umbrellas or other goodies that come and go from the house often, will only enhance the clean you have achieved in this room!

The entire family can pitch in by keeping their shoes, bags, umbrellas, and toys put where they need to be ‘right’ from the point of when they enter your house. Not doing for your family, but ‘making’ them remember to do it their selves can be difficult but very helpful to you in the end for a gleaming house.

In your entryway, your daily or weekly tasks will include keeping the shoes, coats, and the floors clean. Wiping down the door weekly may be needed if you always find company or children touching the door.

Your entryway heavy cleaning will include scrubbing the floor to get that deep down dirt out. Washing the windows on the door, scrubbing the walls and light fixtures as needed, and washing the curtains that hang on the door as needed will keep your entry way looking fresh, organized and clean all the time.