Interior Design for Clean Freaks

The plight of the clean-freak is a sad one. Other people – people who are not obsessed with keeping their homes clean – always give the cleaners a bit of a strange look, as if there’s something wrong with them. Granted, this is usually in social or casual situations when one should accept the possibility of a spilled glass of wine or dripping hamburger on the floor, but it still seems unfair. Wanting to live in a clean home isn’t a disease, it’s common sense.

To minimize your exposure to the heartless jokes and comments of your friends and guests, one thing the Clean Freak can do is help themselves through the interior design they employ in their homes. There are numerous steps that can be taken that don’t harm the beauty of your home – in fact, they can enhance it – but that can also make it easier to keep your space as clean as you like it (which is, we’ll stipulate, very very clean).

Hardwoods

Your savior in many ways is hardwood flooring. Rugs and carpets are simply places that crumbs, fibers, and other bits of dirt get caught, and any true Clean Freak only needs to see a rug being beaten outdoors once to swear to never have one in their home again. The real win here is with spills. Red wine spilled on a carpet equals ten minutes on your knees scrubbing while your party guests try to pretend it’s not happening. With hardwood it equals a quick wipe up with some paper towels.

Walls, Not Surfaces

When it comes to the art and accessories that make your space, go for high-quality wall art instead of things on your shelves and table tops and other surfaces. All those bits of bling on surfaces make it much harder to dust and wipe them down. Keeping them clear makes keeping them clean much easier – and beautiful canvas prints or other forms of wall art can be just as effective in providing pops of color, texture, and lines for your interior design plan.

Wheels and Covers

The two biggest helps are, luckily, part of the modern home design that’s very in right now: Wheeled furniture and couch and sofa cushions with slipcovers. Wheeled furniture harkens back to 1950s and 1960s modernism – a wheeled bar and tables means you can clear out that living room or other entertaining space in no time to give those floors a thorough cleaning, and slipcovers mean you not only have the ability to change the color and texture of your upholstery any time you wish, you can also easily wash or replace that upholstery when it gets a little too ratty for your Clean Freak sensibilities.

None of these steps reduces your ability to be as creative as you like in making your interior living spaces as beautiful as you wish, in whatever style you wish. But what they do achieve is an easier way of cleaning, giving you back precious time to spend on other things – like actually talking to your guests instead of manically cleaning up after them at your next party. And if you need a little help decorating those walls to keep your surfaces clear, take some awesome photos and click here, and we’d be happy to be part of your next design plan.