Here’s my problem with cleaning. One, I hate it. Two, I hate it. And three, did I mention I hate cleaning? But when the dust bunnies grow into the size of tumbleweeds, it’s a sign that it’s time to clean. Sigh….. One of the best ways I find to tackle my house? Deep clean my bedroom in under 2-hours strategy.
Recently I tackled deep cleaning my upstairs bedrooms. They had been ignored for quite some time. To the point where when guests come over I do all that I can to avoid them going upstairs.
But now that are deep cleaned, I rest just a bit more soundly at night.
Just a note on the size of my rooms and how long they take to deep clean. Our bedrooms are medium sized. They run around 12 feet x 12 feet and have about 2 windows each. So if you have a much bigger bedroom, it’s possible that it could take you over 2 hours. I don’t want to promise something I can’t deliver!
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Equipment/ Tools
Gather these cleaning tools to deep clean your bedroom before you start your 2 hour timer. Best to collect all these either the day before or the morning before you start cleaning. Otherwise if you are like me, you will be spending half your time trying to find your cleaning tools. The trick is to cleaning your room quickly is to be organized from the get-go.
- Deep Clean Your Bedroom in Under 2 Hours! Checklist (see below)
- Old bed sheet or towels
- Swiffer Duster with Extended Handle
- Swiffer Sweeper
- Ladder or step stool (optional)
- Old pillowcase
- Glass cleaner
- Paper towels or clean cloths
- Murphy’s Oil Soap diluted with water in a bucket
- Sponge
- Furniture polish
- Vacuum with attachments
- Mop (for hardwood floors)
You can shop some of these products at the bottom of this post.
Tips
- Print the Deep Clean Your Bedroom in Under 2 Hours! checklist to keep track of your progress as well as a handy section for notes. Notes? Notes for what you ask? To jot down things that you notice while deep cleaning your bedroom that need to be attended to later. For example, chipped paint around a window sill, or a bookcase that needs re-organizing, or light bulbs that need to be changed.
- Keep a 1) garbage bag nearby to discard trash and 2) basket for items you encounter that you want to keep but don’t belong in the room or items that are broken that need to be fixed. For example, I’ll find toys in my children’s bedroom (usually under the bed) that belong in the toy room. After you have finished cleaning the room, you can tackle the items in the basket. This method will stop you for getting sidetracked from leaving the bedroom that you re deep cleaning and stay focused on the deep cleaning the bedroom room in under 2 hours.
Instructions for Deep Cleaning Your Bedroom
Step 1
Completely cover your bed with an old sheet or blanket. This protects the bed, and provides a staging area for cleaning products.
Time Needed: 3 minutes
Step 2
If applicable, remove window treatments for washing. I have curtains shades so I remove the curtains from their rods and throw into the washer. Dust the rods and set aside.
If your window treatments are not washable, give a quick dust using the Swiffer Duster.
Alternatively if you are not washing window treatments, you could wash your bed linens instead. But if you are following my Simple Laundry Schedule, the blankets and bedspreads are washed on “Fill-in Friday” while the sheets are done on “Sheet Saturday”.
Time Needed: 10 minutes
Step 3
Extend the handle on the Swiffer Duster (or use the Swiffer Sweeper) and run back and forth along the ceiling and (if applicable the crown moldings) to capture cobwebs and dust bunnies.
Time Needed: 5 minutes
Step 4
Run the Swiffer Duster along the crown moldings, followed by the top of the door frames. Then open the doors and dust the tops of doors. If your house is anything like mine, the Swiffer Duster will be dirty and disgusting at this point. Go ahead and change it out to a new duster.
Time needed: 5 minutes
Step 5
Time to clean any ceiling lights and fans. Using a ladder, step stool (or even your bed if it’s in the right spot) reach up to clean the ceiling light and fan.
Depending on the brightness of your light, you might want to consider turning off the light first before you get up close and personal with it.
For the light, dust first with the Swiffer Duster. Then give a squirt of glass cleaner onto a paper towel or cleaning cloth and wipe any glass parts. If you are not a fan of store-bought glass cleaners like Windex and looking for a homemade window cleaner, check out Bren’s It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere Homemade Glass Cleaner (it uses vodka!).
To dust the fan, I found a great cleaning tip from Mrs Happy Homemaker. Insert the fan blade completely into the pillowcase. Press the fabric tightly around the blades, and pull outwards. What’s great about this cleaning hack? The pillowcase catches all that dust leaving no mess on the floor!
Once complete, turn your light on and then check the light bulbs. Are they all working? If not, make a note to fix later.
Time needed: 10 minutes
Step 6
Dust blinds or shades. I have cellular shades so the Swiffer Duster works well to grab accumulated dust. Swiffer Dusters work well with blinds as well, but you might want to first check out this post by One Good Thing by Jillee that has a variety of cleaning methods organized by type of binds.
Time needed: 5 minutes
Step 7
Wipe the inside of windows with glass cleaner and a paper towel or cleaning cloth. No time for the outside – deep cleaning of the exterior side of the windows will be completed another day.
Time needed: 5 minutes
Step 8
Run the Swiffer Duster with the handle extended up and down the easily-accessible portions of the walls to capture cobwebs. If you come across hung artwork or pictures, dust along the way, especially along the tops where dust collects.
Time needed: 5 minutes
Step 9
It’s almost been an hour. Take a break! It’s a BIG job to deep clean your bedroom quickly. Grab some water – you’ve worked hard so far!
If you have window treatment like curtains in the wash, change them over to the dryer and take a 5 minute break. If you don’t have any window treatments in the wash, take the full 10 minutes for a well-deserved break.
Time needed: 5-10 minutes
Step 10
Dust the wood door frames (you already did the tops of the door frame) and easily-accessible floor baseboards and radiators. (If you have cast iron radiators, like me, do a quick version of Steps 4 and 5 of How to Clean a Cast Iron Radiator).
Then go back and wash the wood door frames and easily-accessible baseboards and radiators with a cleaning cloth dampened with Murphy’s Oil Soap to wash. I love the smell of Murphy’s Oil Soap. To me, it makes a room smell so clean and fresh.
Time needed: 10 minutes
Step 11
Dust the walls behind the less-accessible walls and furniture (including bed frame) and radiators with the Swiffer Duster with the extended handle. These hard-to-reach areas are probably dusty and dirty, so you will likely need to change out the Swiffer Duster afterwards.
Time Needed: 5 minutes
Step 12
Wipe down light switches and plug covers with glass cleaner and paper towel or cleaning cloth.
Time Needed: 2 minutes
Step 13
Using a Swiffer Duster (without the handle extended), dust floor and desk lamps. Don’t forget to dust the light bulbs, followed by glass cleaner, which helps bring more light into the room. Last, don’t forget to run the Duster down the lamp cord as far as possible.
Time Needed: 5 minutes
Step 14
Using the Swiffer Duster (without the handle extended), dust room furniture (i.e. bed frame, bureau) followed by polishing with soft cloth. For furniture polish, I use Pledge Lemon, but if you are looking for a homemade alternative, check out Housewife How-To’s Homemade Furniture Polish recipe using jojoba oil and white vinegar.
Don’t open any drawers – it’s not time to declutter. Also, don’t forget to dust and polish the bed frame (for some reason I tend to forget that piece of furniture).
Time Needed: 10 minutes
Step 15
Vacuum floors. Vacuum your floors, getting under the bed and furniture. Then change out the floor attachment to the long crevice tool and vacuum in the crevices. The main crevices to hit? Right where the baseboard meets the floor and around any furniture that the floor vacuum attachment can’t reach.
Time Needed: 8 minutes
Step 16
If you have hardwoods floors, use the Swiffer Sweeper to dust the floors under furniture.
Then go back and using the same bucket of Murphy’s Oil Soap diluted with water, wash all the hardwood floors in the room with a mop. I’ve added my favorite mop to the Shop This Post section at the bottom of this post – Libman’s Tornado twist mop. It’s incredibly durable (I’ve had mine for a few years), lightweight, and comes with easily detachable, washable mop heads.
Time Needed: 8 minutes
Step 17
If you washed any window treatments, retrieve from the dryer and hang back up.
Time Needed: 10 minutes
Wah-la! A deep clean your bedroom in under 120 minutes (i.e. 2 hours) is pretty impressive. And, if you don’t have hardwood floors, you can complete in even less time!
Don’t you feel a sense of accomplishment now?
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