Should you clean before your house cleaner arrives? This question sparks debate in households everywhere. While some argue that the very point of hiring a professional is to avoid the hassle, others ...

You might think that if you hire a cleaning service to come and deal with your mess, you can promptly ignore the whole subject and let the housecleaners deal with everything—after all, that’s the ...

If you want to have a nice place, you need to look after it—and not everyone knows the right way to do so. Luckily, in a ...

Key Takeaways With some planning and prioritizing, you can tackle every room in your home for a deep clean.Declutter to put ...

After cleaning homes for 24 years, Faith Horsman has learned that houses that look the tidiest aren’t always the cleanest— they are just better at hiding the mess. In fact, Horsman admits her own home ...

The pandemic inspired new vigilance about germs, including more frequent and thorough house cleaning—changes that stuck with many of us years later. But while cleanliness is a virtue, germ fixation is ...

In the six years since I published Maid, almost every person who’s interviewed me has asked me the same question: Do I, a person who became kind of famous for writing about cleaning people’s houses, ...