Tips for Making Your Home Smell Fresh

Every home may get an odor from time to time. It can be disturbing to come home and walk into a smelly house. Deodorizing your home in an inexpensive way can be a challenge. There are many things that you can do to freshen up your home.

First, I will go over some of the obvious ways to freshen the home. You can start by opening up your windows, cleaning with lemon, use candles or scented oils. This can temporarily help the situation for a while. A lot of smells come from the obvious places like kitchen sinks or bathroom sinks. A good way to get rid of smells that come up from pipes would be to clean them. I like using a concoction of baking soda and vinegar. Sprinkle the baking soda down the drain and pour the vinegar on top of that. This will cause a bubbly reaction. It cleans your drain and freshens it at the same time. This can also be used on fabrics and it cleans just as well. Another obvious place that can smell is the toilet if it is not constantly clean. One item I find really useful is an automatic toilet bowl cleaner. It is a drop in for your tank and it deodorizes and cleans every time you flush.

Fabrics can also store and hold odor like pillows, curtains, rugs, or carpet. Steam cleaning your carpet once or twice a year can also drive out odor. This is especially helpful if you have pets. Carpet freshener that is safe around animals is a good buy.

One idea you may or may not have heard is to put leftover dryer sheets into a sachet. Place these sachets in drawers and in linen closets. Even placing cedar chips in a sachet can minimize odor in the home. Using reed diffusers can also freshen the air. How about using those car fresheners that hang off your rear view mirror. Instead hang one of these in each closet in your home. This helps freshen each room in the house.

Using scented air filters for your central heat and air is another way of keeping your whole house fresh. You just replace your regular filter with a scented air filter. They filter your A/C system while providing a fresh scent. They also carry a product called Fan Fresh. These products contain an urethane foam adhesive strip that attachs to your ceiling fans. When the ceiling fans are turned on this product provides a scent that circulates throughout the room. Looking for a way to keep odors out of your home is a challenge, but hopefully these techniques will help.

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