YOUR SQUEAKY ‒ CLEAN GUIDE TO... A healthy, happy home

Create a home that’s as healthy as can be with our faff-free, non-toxic tips and simple, safe swap

Feature Abbi Henderson

DUST FREE FLOORING

Allergy suff erers, listen up! It’s time to ditch the dust-sucking carpet and sooth your sneezing with an easy-to-clean fl oor. Wood, laminate, lino and tiles are ideal, and can be super-easy to fi t – these hardwood planks from QuickStep cost £58.99 per sqm. If you can’t come to terms with the thought of life without a cosy cream carpet, opt for a low-cost rug that can be deepcleaned and replaced every so often to keep the dust particles (and mites) to a minimum

Furniture for life

Eco-friendly furniture is ideal, but can be costly – luckily, there are more affordable options. Recycling second-hand pieces, something we regularly champion, is an easy – not to mention cheap – way to clean up the planet (your home, after all) and keep unloved yet fully functional items from clogging up landfills.

We don’t know about you, but we can’t remember the last time we scrolled the length of our Instagram feeds without seeing Lycra-clad fitties and semi-famous food gurus hashtagging #avotoast and #fitfam. What started as a ‘clean’ eating experiment with almond milk and medjool dates has spawned into, for lack of a better analogy, an octopus with many, many tentacles. Freefrom beauty products are big sellers, as is organic clothing, so it’s fitting that our homes are next in line for a scrub-up. New to clean living? Here’s what you need to know.