A cleaning and organizing guru has revealed five simple tricks to give your home a luxurious makeover with minimal effort.
Chantel Mila, known as Mama Mila on social media, is popular online for sharing easy and effective tips and tricks to keep your home spotless and tidy for longer.
The Melbourne mother-of-two shared tips on how to keep her home smelling nice, remove stains and rust from her kitchen appliances and fix raised corners on carpets.
Chantel was fed up with her house smelling like cleaning products when she discovered the perfect solution.
Mom has started putting a few teaspoons of vanilla essence in a glass container and putting it in the oven.
“Your whole house will smell like cookies,” he said in a video.
Chantel also frequently has to deal with rust on her steel appliances, a problem millions of Australians face every day.
She simply coats half a lemon with baking powder and uses the homemade solution to scrub her stovetops until they’re sparkling clean and looking like new in minutes.
Chantel Mila, known as Mama Mila on social media, is popular online for sharing easy and effective tips and tricks to keep your home sparkling and tidy for longer.
The acid in lemons is antibacterial and antiseptic and acts as a natural bleach, and the oils in lemon peel also help clean and brighten.
The mother also discovered that all the containers in her kitchen had sticky residue due to the hasty removal of store labels.
“Use a hair dryer to remove the stickers without leaving any residue,” Chantel recommended.
This trick will bring you one step closer to having your perfect kitchen.
Chantel then revealed an easy way to beautify your living spaces.
While rugs can tie an entire room together, this simple decorative element can also draw attention and make the space look cluttered if it has raised corners.
The Melbourne mother of two shared tips for keeping your home smelling nice, how to get rid of stains and rust on your kitchen appliances and how to fix raised corners on carpets.
Chantel’s secret tip is to place an ice cube in the corner and hold it down with a heavy object.
Once the ice cube melts and the water dries, your carpet should be back to normal.
The mom also revealed how to deter bugs when you have guests outdoors.
While the incessant buzzing of pests can put us on edge, there are many deterrents to keep them from entering our home.
Chantel uses a combination of lemon and rosemary (which gives off a pungent scent to insects and repels everything from spiders to flies) in her water when she’s outdoors.