The methods, practices, and routines for getting a clean home seem endless—and, truth be told, I’ve tried plenty of them. My regular cleaning routine tends to be a compilation of just about every ...

The method: Sprinkle 1 cup of baking soda around the bottom of the inside of your dishwasher and rinse on a hot water cycle.

Cleaning every room of your home can often be an arduous task. Even if you have the best intentions to tackle everything in one go, there just never seems to be enough time in the day. Which is why ...

The sandwich cleaning method involves repeating your initial cleaning step—like vacuuming—after your main cleaning task to catch leftover debris and boost sparkle. This method is especially helpful ...

Cleaning used to be an all-or-nothing proposition for me. I would tackle the whole house at once, for hours at a time until it was done. Everything looked glorious—well, at least for a few days, ...

I hate cleaning my baseboards. For nearly every other cleaning task you can think of, I have a reminder set on my phone so I never forget to do it. Clean the bathroom? Check. Wash the comforter? Yup.

As I’m Ideal Home’s editor for all things cleaning, you’d think that I love cleaning. But while I do love finding new cleaning hacks and enjoying a sparkling home by the time I’m done, I’ve often ...

We don’t always have the answers, but we have some people on speed dial who do — which is why we present to you our series FYI where we have experts explain if lip balm is actually bad, how often you ...

And maybe a tad less dreaded. The methods, practices, and routines for getting a clean home seem endless—and, truth be told, I’ve tried plenty of them. My regular cleaning routine tends to be a ...