3 Tips For Cleaning Living Room Furniture

In your living room, your couch or sofa is likely the part of this room that gets the most use and abuse. Especially if you have kids or pets, there are probably more stains and smells on these surfaces than you’d like. However, cleaning living room furniture isn’t as easy as cleaning an article of clothing that gets messy. So to help ensure that you’re able to keep your couch or sofa as clean as possible without sacrificing the integrity of the furniture, here are three tips for cleaning your living room furniture. 

Put Your Vacuum To Work

The first step to cleaning living room furniture, or any kind of furniture that has some kind of upholstery on it, is to vacuum it. 

It’s usually not a good idea to put the large brush of the vacuum on the couch directly, as this can cause a lot more friction than your couch can stand up to. Rather, use a hose attachment that’s smaller and can be more easily maneuvered by you. Take off all of the cushions and vacuum them individually as well as the frame of the couch. If you can, use a smaller tool to get into the cracks and crevices of the couch to make sure you get every crumb off.  

Read The Tag

After you’ve vacuumed your couch and gotten all of the debris off of it, you can now move onto the cleaning portion. 

How you clean your couch or sofa is going to depend entirely upon the materials that your couch is upholstered with. You won’t clean a leather sofa the same way that you’d clean a fabric couch. 

To help you know how to clean the furniture you have, take a look at the frame of your couch and see if you can find a tag. Furniture should have tags on it like clothes do to help you know how to wash or clean them effectively. Some couches can be cleaned with a steam cleaner while others can only be cleaned with water. And some can’t have water used on them, so you’ll have to be even more careful with how you clean them. 

Be Careful With Spot Cleaning

If you’re not wanting to clean the entire piece of furniture in your living room but just have a spot somewhere that you’re needing to take care of, you should be careful with how you clean this spot. If the rest of your couch is a little dirty, this one clean spot can really stick out like a sore thumb.

Additionally, if you have to blot or rub a lot in one specific area, you can leave a mark on this one spot even if the spill or stain is no longer there. So when spot cleaning, make sure you do so carefully. 

If you’re wanting to clean the couch or sofa in your living room, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you with this.