Holiday Decorations Cleaning: Getting Your Home Back in Order

Few people in Manhattan, NYC, remember to add holiday cleaning to their wish list, but it’s something every house and host needs. After the gifts are opened, and the guests are gone, it’s time to put away the décor and start the new year with a clean space. Here are Deep Clean NYC’s recommended decoration cleaning and storage tips to do yourself, along with the best professional cleaning service suggestions to get your home in order. How you clean and store your ornaments depends on what they’re made from. Use hard-sided storage containers for delicate bulbs or ones with sentimental value. Shoe boxes or paper bags work well for durable plastic décor, and egg cartons are great for small, delicate items. Leftover tissue paper and gift boxes make excellent wrapping material for fragile ornaments, especially snow globes, candles, and nativity scenes. Before stashing them, use an appropriate cleaner and microfiber cloth to dust, spray, wipe, and dry them before putting them away for the season. Dried flower wreaths and decorations have a limited array of cleaning options. Instead of shaking them free of lint and fuzz, put the wreath in a trash bag and use a hair dryer to blow the dust off with a low, cool airstream. If they’ve accumulated some grease from touching or proximity to cooking, place them in a paper bag and sprinkle table salt over them. Close the bag and gently shake it for the salt and grease to bind in loose particles that are easy to dispose of. For plastic wreaths, simply bathe them or spray them with warm water, and let them air dry before hanging them on a hanger or laying them on a rack for storage.