Daily Maintenance (at least once a day, preferably after each meal)
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Clear off the table
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Using a spray-cleaner, wipe off the table and the tops of the chairs. Hit the legs as well if your kids have messed them up
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Sweep, spot clean dirty spots on the floor
Weekly Maintenance (What to do when Dining Room is the Lucky Room of the Day)
This is as comprehensive list as I can make it. It will change and grow. Pick and choose what you are capable of doing, but try hard to at least do the daily maintenance chores. This list is based on my current (in 2001) dining room.
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Clear off the table
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If you have any laundry in your dining room, get it out of there. The dining room isn’t a good place for laundry for us messies, because we tend to leave the laundry on the table for days. Try to fold your laundry in the laundry room and then put it away right away.
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Using a spray-cleaner, wipe off the table and the tops of the chairs. Hit the legs as well if your kids have messed them up
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If the dining room is where your papers gather, get them all in one spot. Throw away the junk mail. You don’t need it. Really.
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If you have shelves in your dining room, today is the day to dust them and the stuff on them. Pick one shelf and clean it off completely.
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Sweep, spot clean dirty spots, mop the whole floor.
Monica
February 17th, 2004 at 8:05 pmI think that when the dining room is the lucky room of the day it should get a boquet of flowers for the table…there’s nothing like fresh flowers to motivate me to cleaning!
Jennifer Lavender
March 20th, 2006 at 11:50 amOur “Dining Room” is not used for dining. It has become more of an office for me to work on my craft and business stuff. Do you have any tips for keeping an office area cleaned/organized, or did I just miss those mixed in with other rooms?