Do More Than Just Spring Cleaning!

It’s that time of year where the clocks have gone forward, the nights and mornings aren’t so depressingly dark and we’re FINALLY starting to feel like we;re throwing off the blanket of Winter and saying hello to Spring. For many of us, this is when we start to think about spring cleaning, having a good sort-out, getting the garden usable after all the bad weather and all those other things that help us to shake of memories of dreary days. However, I’ve been thinking about other, bigger things I can do to get the house and garden back to looking their best and I thought I’d share them with you:

Tidy the Garden

Thanks to months of snow and wet weather, our lawns and flower beds have been totally neglected and need a really god tidy up. We invested in a petrol mower so that we could still mow on damp days but it’s still been far too wet, which is why we thought about hiring someone like https://www.lawncare.net/service-areas/florida/, as they’d have the right tools and expertise to get the job done. We get a lot of walkers going by our house and it must look such a mess!

Replace Curtains and Blinds

When we move in here, we didn’t have any coverings on any of the windows and I don’t know about you, but I hate that curtain-less, ‘living in a fish bowl’ feeling, so I went and bought cheap blinds to fill the gap. However, two and a half years on and the blinds are looking really tatty now, so I’m looking to upgrade to something a lot nicer. It will make the whole house look smarter and will hopefully help to keep the cold out if we choose thermal blinds. I’m a big fan of grey so will probably be opting for grey curtains or blinds.

Paint the Front Door

Our front door is wooden and painted gloss white, but it’s seen better days and is starting to look really tatty. As soon as we’re due to have a couple of nice days, I’ll be sanding the door, frame and doorstep and repainting the whole lot – I may even go for a colour instead of just stark white to give the house a bit of a brighter look.

Clean the Windows

I must admit, this is one that I probably leave far longer than I should, but because we’re surrounded by farmland we’re constantly getting dusty winds blown at us, so even if the windows have just been cleaned, they can look mucky again quite quickly. We’ve also got quite a lot of windows (I think I counted 15) so it’ll definitely be a case of getting someone in who’s got all the right tools and equipment to do it for us.

What jobs are you planning to do to get your house in order? Leave me a comment below.