Simple Ways to Make Your Home Smell Fresh

_{It is time to eliminate the funk in your home and bring in the fresh-smelling air. Learn how to make your home smell fresh all the time.}

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Simple Ways to Make Your Home Smell Fresh

We all want our homes to smell, well, like home. When you walk through the door, you want it to smell fresh and comforting. And I love a good-smelling home. Especially when we have friends stopping by for dinner or our weekly bible study night.

Sometimes, often through no fault of our own, our home can have a not-so-fresh smell, but here you will learn how to fix that. Everyone will remember a stinky home and they will also remember a good-smelling home.

One will leave your guests feeling comforted, the other will have them gasping for good air. The secret to a nose-friendly space isn’t to spray fragrance on top of yucky stuff. You are just covering up the smell and not dealing with the problem. One big hint: It is time to find the culprit. A clean home shouldn’t smell.

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We all know we can use sprays and candles to eliminate odors. But really, they are only masking the problem. But you may not realize there are many other things you can easily do to make your home smell good. It isn’t hard to get your home smelling fantastic. It may take a little investigative work.

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Absorb Tough Smells with Baking Soda

Spots like litter boxes, garbage cans, pet beds, and diaper pails are all places that give off funky smells. Changing and washing these areas often will help. But you can also extend the freshness.

Baking soda is the cheapest and best odor eliminator. A box in the fridge will keep the smells gone for 3 months. Neutralizes odors in the air, and in your garbage disposal to keep your carpets smell-free. Baking soda does a wonderful job of absorbing, not masking the smells.

Fresh Smelling Disposal

That funky smell in your kitchen might be coming from your garbage disposal. Sometimes food trash can get stuck in your garbage disposal, leaving you with a not-so-pleasant smell in your kitchen. Not to worry though, because this is an easy fix, toss some orange or lemon peels and some ice down the disposal and turn it on.

The citrus and ice will clean your disposal and leave you a pleasant fresh scent! If you still notice a lingering odor, toss a tablespoon or so of baking soda down there as well.

Kitchen Trash Can

The kitchen trash can is often the source of unpleasant odors in the kitchen. You can easily remedy this by using dryer sheets or a deodorizing pack underneath the liner to absorb odors. The bottom of the trash can is also a great place for a sprinkle of baking soda.

But before you do any of this, it is important to give your trash can a great wash with warm soapy water. Make sure you remove any stuck food particles.

Household Carpets

Did you know that the carpet in your home can hold smells from spilled food, pet messes, and more even after you have cleaned it up? Plug-in air fresheners are pricey and unnatural. Instead, switch to an all-natural essential oil diffuser.

You can buy a diffuser for daily room freshening that’s chemical-free and safe for kids and pets. One simple way to keep your home smelling clean and fresh is to sprinkle baking soda on your carpets.

Let it sit for about an hour and then vacuum it up for a clean, fresh-smelling home.

Essential Oils

Many people use essential oils to help relieve aches and pains as well as to keep their homes scented in the smells that they find the most comforting. You can use essential oil diffusers around your home to keep it smelling amazing without it being overwhelming.

The diffuser creates a fine aromatic mist that gently wafts through your home. Lemon, lavender, and clove are just a few scents that will freshen your whole home plus provide benefits such as relaxation and cleansing qualities.

Place Candles Around Your Home

Scattering candles around your home is a simple way to make it smell amazing, but you don’t have to light the candles for them to work. Leave a candle in some not-so-obvious places like the linen closets. The smell of the candle will linger on the fabrics, infusing your home with your favorite scents.

Car Air Fresheners

Have you ever seen those little air fresheners that you clip to the air vents in your car? Well, they aren’t just for cars, you can also use them on the air vents in your home.

This can be a super simple and effective way to make your home smell great and have a continuity of smell throughout your whole home. Perfect for small spaces such as a coat closet.

Quick Odor Removal

Have an unexpected guest stopping by and your kitchen still smells like last night’s dinner? Not to worry, you can remove odors quickly in two ways. The first is to bake some cookies, seriously you will have fresh-from-the-oven cookies to serve your guests and your house will smell great too!

Don’t have any cookies to bake?

Put some water on the stove to simmer and add whatever good-smelling ingredients you have available. Citrus peels or orange slices, apple slices, cinnamon sticks, or a dash of vanilla. They will all make your house smell amazing, quickly.

There are tons of great recipes for stovetop pot-pourri.

Bottom Line – When accidents happen, clean them up as soon as they happen. You must stay on top of odors before they take over.

These simple ways will get and keep your home smelling clean and fresh all year long. Make sure that you open the windows from time to time to let a little fresh air blow through there, too.