Ready to give your home a top-to-bottom buffing? Focusing on furnishings, appliances, and carpeting. Once you’ve covered these major tasks, you’ll have your home spring-cleaned in no time.

Make doormats welcoming

Shake 'em, wash 'em, swat 'em with a broom. Give them the toughest cleaning they can take. They’re your front line against tracked-in dirt—so keep them clean enough to function at peak efficiency.

Finish your floors

To protect the floors in your kitchen from another year of wear and tear, wax or apply a sealer following label directions.

When the house does get smelly, the natural reaction is to use some Febreeze or scented air freshening clips, like AirWick. While those products work well and affectively ward off that scent (for a little while, anyways) those sprays and clips tend to get expensive.

If you're looking to get that clean, Febreeze smell but you don't want to spend that kind of cash, we've got the perfect DIY project for you! It's a homemade air freshener and it's incredibly easy and cheap to make.

Here's what you'll need:

• 1/4 cup of Downy Unstoppables in your preferred scent
• 4 teaspoons of baking soda
• 1 cup boiling water
• 14-oz spray bottle

Downy Unstoppables come in a million great scents, too, so feel free to get whichever one you like best!

To start, combine your Downy Unstoppables and your baking soda in a bowl.

If you have hay fever or allergic asthma, take a few steps to reduce allergens in your home. Some steps to reduce indoor allergens are complicated and time-consuming, but there are some easy things you can do that may help. Some steps may be more effective than others, depending on what particular allergy or allergies you have.

Bedroom

• Bed and bedding - Encase pillows, mattresses and box springs in dust-mite-proof covers. Wash sheets, pillowcases and blankets at least once a week in water heated to at least 130 F (54 C).

Duct cleaning is one of those tasks that it's easy to forget about. Since ducts and vents are often overlooked, many homeowners might not even remember the last time they had them attended to. The fact is, however, that duct and vent cleaning may have health advantages, and might even reduce your energy bills and extend the life of your forced air system.

Vent and Duct Cleaning and Indoor Air Quality

One thing to consider when you're thinking about vent and duct cleaning is the fact that indoor air quality is decreasing.

Revitalize your hibernating home with simple suggestions.

1. Work from the top down, inside to outside, to avoid getting what you just cleaned dirty again.
2. Do one room, even one area of one room, at a time to avoid unfinished jobs. The satisfaction of seeing one room sparkle will make the hard work feel like it's worth the effort.
3. When tidying, reduce trips around the house by temporarily depositing items in one spot en route to but not at their final destination.
4. Do two things at once. While laundry is going, scrub the shower stall.