Whether you’re relaxing in your bachelor pad or enjoying the space and comfort of your family home, you must ensure it is as safe and healthy as possible.
Vacuuming once a week isn’t always enough, especially if your home collects a lot of dust or has surfaces that are hard to reach and don’t get enough attention. Consider these tips if you want a healthy home that looks and feels good and will impress guests and even yourself.
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Fix Things Yourself
Learning basic do-it-yourself skills is a great way to keep your home in great shape. There are many small but important repairs and maintenance checks you need to do to maintain your home healthy, but you don’t always have the time to wait around for repair companies.
Some repairs may seem hard, but if you take the time to learn how to do them, you may find that they aren’t as hard as they seem. When it comes to appliances, you must look up your model number to find the right component to keep things running well.
Also, if you know how to fix a leaky tap, you can stop nasty mold and mildew from growing, which can make the air quality bad enough to hurt your health. For some issues, such as pests, you won’t be able to tackle yourself; instead, look for Pest Control Services.
Open Your Windows
If you’ve ever come home from vacation and thought your house smelled bad, you now know what other people think when they walk into your house.
Keeping your home well-ventilated will make it smell better because it lets air flow through and out, which helps get rid of bad smells.
Even though this isn’t ideal, especially if you live where it gets cold often, you should still open the windows for a few hours every morning to keep your home from having a constant smell.
Look After Your Own Mess
Cleaning up after yourself will make your home healthier, whether you leave food scraps on the counter after dinner or let your beard hair pile up around the bathroom sink. Pests like ants and roaches can be drawn to food scraps, and hair can clog the drain and cause damage to the pipes.
When you’re done, it doesn’t take long to quickly wipe down the counters and sink, which means you can keep your home looking nice and have less maintenance and bigger problems.
Create A Workout Zone
A healthy home isn’t just one that is clean and smells good. You should also think about how your body feels. Not everyone has room for a home gym, but that doesn’t mean you always have to join a gym.
No matter how much space you have in your home, making room for a small space workout can greatly improve your health and fitness. Yoga stretches and resistance band workouts are all inexpensive and good ways to keep your health in good shape. You only need about 30 minutes at the start of each day to make a difference.
Set Up A Home Working Space
Research shows that 48% of us now work from home, but 89% don’t have a space just for work. We don’t have to go to an office because of mobile technology, but work can easily spread to every room of the house and affect our family and social lives.
If you work from home, having a separate space where you can shut the door on your papers and files at the end of the day will help you find a better balance between your work and personal life.
This should ideally have a lot of natural light, a view of the garden, plants, or other greenery, a variety of storage options, work surfaces, the furniture you can adjust the height of, and doors you can shut for privacy.
But if you don’t have room in your house, you could get a garden office that stands on its own, is well insulated, and is wired to the mains. Or, if you don’t have much room, make a study area under the stairs, in a niche next to the fireplace, or even in a deep closet with a pull-out desk and shelves.
Home Sweet Home
After a long day at work, coming home to a healthy home will make you feel much better and make you want to spend time there. Whether you just got out of college or have a family to care for, these tips will help make your house as nice as possible.