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17 places you're forgetting to dust at home

Don't compromise your health - by Rebecca Lowrey Boyd
  • 21 Aug 2018

Let's face it, dust doesn't do anyone any favours. It makes your home look unkempt and dust mites can make you sick.

Give your house a deep clean by targeting these trouble spots.

1. Plants

Use a damp cloth to gently wipe down leaves.

2. Inside drawers

Drawers can collect crumbs, dust and debris. Wipe them down with a damp cloth.

3. Pillows and blankets

Next time you’re washing your sheets, throw in the pillows and blankets too. They’re full of dead skin cells and dust mites.

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4. Lampshades

Use a vacuum with a brush attachment or wipe down with a clean damp cloth.

5. Light switches

Wipe them down and remove fingerprints at the same time.

6. Bookshelves

Use a dust cloth to wipe along the front of the books, as well as along the top.

7. Blinds and curtains

Use a vacuum to clean blinds and curtains, or use a damp cloth to wipe down blinds.

8. Cushions

Vacuum them regularly.

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9. TV

Use a damp cloth or microfibre cloth to wipe down the TV, running around the top, bottom and sides. Include speakers and remotes.

10. Underneath the table

Grab a dust cloth and wipe underneath the table for spider webs and other debris.

11. Air conditioning vents

Use a vacuum to clean them out

12. Sofa and armchairs

Use a vacuum and wipe down the arms and legs with a damp cloth.

13. Picture frames

Tackle dust along the top of picture frames.

14. Ceiling corners

Use a stick vacuum to reach tricky spots.

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15. Along the top of doors

Wipe down with a dust cloth or damp cloth.

16. Skirting boards

Wipe along the ledge with a damp cloth.

17. Toilet

Use a damp cloth to wipe along the top of the cistern, as well as any exposed pipes at the back of the toilet.

  

This article originally appeared on Better Homes and Gardens.

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Rebecca Lowrey Boyd is a former magazine editor and the founder of Wee Birdy, one of The Sunday Times’ Top 50 Blogs in the World. A design nerd and bird enthusiast, she can usually be found poring over Pinterest, knee-deep in Bunnings or sticky-beaking at modernist homes in Sydney’s bushburbia.

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