Tips to make your home smell lovely

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Any tips to make your house have a lovely smell when you walk in?
My house doesn’t stink but it doesn’t have the lovely clean fresh smell some houses have.
Two teen boys and pets don’t help that.
Nice diffuser recommendations? Bin scent liners? Just any tips beyond usual cleaning would be so welcome. I’m not keen on plug in air fresheners.

@dillydallydollydaydream7

If I can jump I'm with a question about cooker hoods - how does everyone remove the stickiness? I soak mine regularly and have used dishwasher tablets, zoflora, alsorts, and although grease comes off them I always feel like they're still slightly tacky

I use bio washing powder and it works a treat! I also use it to soak the oven racks.

Washing powder and washing up liquid makes the pink stuff

Washing powder on its own even is great for cleaning a stainless sink and then pour over boiling water - leaves the sink smelling great

@dillydallydollydaydream7

If I can jump I'm with a question about cooker hoods - how does everyone remove the stickiness? I soak mine regularly and have used dishwasher tablets, zoflora, alsorts, and although grease comes off them I always feel like they're still slightly tacky

I used lemon juice when I lived in as it was thick with grease. Now I just use white vinegar spray.

👆👆👆’moved in’

I’m another for opening windows, I have mine open as much as possible. It’s the best way to keep on top of damp in winter too. Fresh air in and stale air out.

I spray the beds/bedrooms and furniture daily with dettol and fabric sprays and have diffusers in each room. Shoes packed away and also sprayed regularly or in a closed off area.

I don’t tend to notice my house smell until I go away for a few days, it’s so nice coming home to a nice smelling house. I’ve definitely found investing in the better quality diffusers are worth it too.

We have our bedroom windows open over night.
And upstair windows open during the day too.
Downstairs windows are on the latch so open a couple of centimetres in the rooms while in use.
I have 3 teenage boys and 2 dogs. Also decent extractor fans in the bathrooms and kitchen have helped too. Then I have reed diffuser in the boys bathroom and hall. I can't smell them now but everyone always comments on the smell when they arrive in the house.

Do a zoflora steam.

Put a few caps of your fave zoflora smell in a glass jar and put some boiling hot water in it, pop jar on a windowsill. Guaranteed flood of the room with gorgeousness!

I spray the beds/bedrooms and furniture daily with dettol and fabric sprays and have diffusers in each room.

Diffusers and fabric sprays are really bad for you though.

Diffusers and fabric sprays are really bad for you though.

neither is using floral as a steam bath, is it? isn't it supposed to be a cleaning product

Plug ins and neom Reed diffusers. X

@ivykaty44 not from the uk so not sure what floral is, was your comment meant for me?

@ParadiseLaundry @Yellow85 thank you both! I'll give these a try