Q&A for How to Clean a Girl's Room

Organize your desk and straighten up any items on it so it doesn't look cluttered or messy. You can also dust your desk or wipe it down with some furniture polish (depending on what it's made of).

Just pick a day or night of each month and do it. We're only talking 10 to 15 minutes for the room itself. For example, make it every first Saturday of the month. Do it before noon (after breakfast), so you're not rushing to make a TV show or ruining pool or sunbathing times.

You could add artwork or posters of your choice, but try to keep it simple and neat. Maybe add flowers or a lamp for decoration, some colorful throw pillows, etc. Make sure to keep up with the cleaning by tidying up a little every day.

Yes, you can clean a boy's room the same as a girl's room and be successful with it.

It depends on the size and messiness of the room. Put everything back in it's place, then sweep/vaccuum and make the bed.

Clean your own space first, and then you can offer to help the other girls with their spaces.

I would suggest building or buying a toy chest or chest of drawers to put your toys in.You could also use plastic bins that can be stored either in your closet or under your bed.

You'll find good tips in Clean Painted Walls .

Try creating a playlist of motivational songs to motivate yourself, you can also set a challenge too finish cleaning your room before the playlist finishes.

Add something new! You can get new posters, paintings, etc. Or try a new coat of paint if your parents will let you but that's a bigger project. Update your decorations to reflect your current interests and donate or recycle the old things.

Have a calm conversation with them about this. Tell them you're trying to keep your room clean and ask them to be more respectful of your space and your things. If you share the room with them, ask them to keep their things/their mess on their side of the room. If it keeps happening, ask a parent to talk to them.

When they're out of the room, you could clean it for them. You could encourage them to be more neat with their things, or just reward them when their area is clean.

If you don't have a loft bed or a bed with slide-out drawers under it, install boxes so you can store things like clothes you don't use in the current season, old books you don't want to get rid of yet, and anything else that you don't want to see cluttering up your room but could be useful. You can also make sure that the positioning of your furniture is good: don't put the bed in the middle of the room; place it in a corner. Use the space on top of your dresser and in drawers. Go through your things. Maybe you don't need it all right now, and you could store it somewhere else.

Get a small dresser for your closet so you can store things on top of it. If you're willing, install a loft bed so you can have a closet/desk/couch/bookshelf underneath your bed. Don't have a lot of furniture in your room, so it doesn't look overcrowded. You can get really cheap furniture from IKEA. You can put a KALLAX bookshelf next to your bed. Use IKEA boxes to store books/speakers/technology under the bed.

Put your current sheets through the wash and wait until they are clean and dry to put them back on your bed. Do this in the morning so that you don't have to rush around trying to put the sheets on when they are still wet.

Hang all t-shirts, jumpers, jeans, and sports uniforms so that they don't get wrinkled and so you can see them and get them out of the way. If you have a dresser, use it for underclothes, socks and pants. If you have heaps of shoes, use transparent shoe boxes for an affordable option. Make sure that all clothes that aren't hanged are folded neatly. Make sure your clothes are all ironed.

It's really not that different. Clean your room however you like. That's always going to be the best way, because only you know what you're looking for.

If it's a sibling, talk about it with them and your parents. If worse comes to worst, you could place tape on the floor showing that person's side and yours. If it irks you that you can see their side, you could install a curtain between. Ask them politely if you could come up with some solution, like that they don't have to make their bed, but you want them to put their dirty clothes in a bag or hamper. You could ask if it's okay if you clean the room and tidy their stuff.

Start by picking up anything green or blue. Next just pick up 10 random things. Next pick up shoes, paper and anything that has to do with food. Then put away 10 pieces of clothing. Then pick up anything red, pink or purple. Then put all extra clothes away. (It shouldn't look as bad now.) Then make your bed and fix up anything that is left!

Remove the clutter and rubbish or get more storage space. Decide whether you really need all of the things you have.

You could put on some music that you like and make a checklist. Checklists help a lot! Use a stopwatch each time you clean, and keep trying to beat your best time.

Playing music is often distracting and can lead you to focusing on the music, rather than your tidying. Unless you are doing a repetitive task that doesn't require any thinking, the only music you should play is songs without words.

Pick which posters are most important to you. Posters can be hung on doors and inside wardrobes too. Start by hanging up the larger posters and working the smaller ones around it. If you have too many posters, you can swap them around regularly.

You can either go find a bookshelf at a thrift shop or even you own house or you can make your own bookshelf, for example from bricks and planks. Then place all the books on it.

If your new favorite color is purple, try painting the walls lavender and change up the decor and furniture. For example, your desk, lights or maybe even DI. Or, build something you know will match with your new layout. Try changing the layout such as moving the bed to the left wall or move your desk closer to the windows.

Take everything out of your closet, and throw what you don't need. Choose how you would like to organize your closet, and then put everything where you want it. Keep checking it regularly, like every two weeks, and don't just throw random things in it. Now you're done!

Think about all the things that attract ants (like food, etc.) and get rid of that stuff from your room. Do not get any air freshener that smells like food, because that may attract ants too. Interrupt the ant's chemical trail with some peppermint oil or just by vacuuming the area and removing all ants, crumbs, food, and the like. Your carpet may need a shampoo to be effective.