One of the first things guests notice when they enter your home is the smell.
Irrespective of how good your interior décor looks, bad odor emanating from your home can overshadow the beauty of your home because it is too difficult to ignore a bad smell.
There are several simple ways to make your home smell nice and welcoming to guests; in this post, we shall explore nine DIY hacks to give your home a pleasant fragrance.
Benefits of Having a Pleasant-Smelling Home
Cigarette can make you feel warm and improve your mood during the winter season, but it makes your home smells awful, and it is a big turn-off for family and guests who are nonsmokers.
To eradicate the smell of cigarettes from your home, fill a small bowl three-quarter way with apple cider vinegar and leave it in a corner.
The apple cider vinegar will absorb the odor of cigarettes from the room within 24 hours.
If the cigarette smell is fresh, wave a piece of cotton cloth dipped in vinegar to rid your home of the smell of fresh cigarette smoke.
The smell of baking pastries is welcoming, but you don’t need a pastry recipe to fill your home with a pleasant fragrance.
Fill your room with a lovely smell by mixing a teaspoon of ground cinnamon and cloves on a baking sheet, leave in the oven at 2000F for 30 minutes with the oven door ajar and let the sweet fragrance of baked cinnamon and clove fill your home all day long.
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Simmer orange peels with cloves in a pot of water for 30 minutes, turn off the heat and leave the pot open and standing on the stove.
You will smell the sweet fragrance of orange and clove diffusing from your kitchen into every space in your home.
Who says you can’t make your diffuser at home? Get a jar, water, essential oils (lavender, cinnamon, and peppermint essential oils), and 7 bamboo skewers with the pointed edges cut off.
Add water to the jar three-quarter ways, and add a few two drops each of lavender, cinnamon, and peppermint essential oils to the water.
Add the skewers to the jar (the skewers must be twice the height of the jar), set the jar in your room, and let sweet scents from essential oils fill up your space.
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Painting your room yourself gives it a personal touch, but fresh paint gives off a sickly smelling and toxic gas that pollutes the air in your room, especially when using VOC paint.
The smell of fresh paint can last for months after renovation; to eliminate this nauseating and dangerous smell, mix two tablespoons of vanilla extract into your paint to kill the sickly smell of fresh paint and give your room a pleasant, after-paint smell.
Odors from trashcans sitting in your kitchen can fill up the atmosphere in your home with a foul smell and attract house and fruit flies and rodents.
Hence, it is essential that you deodorize your trashcans weekly after disposing of your trash. Baking soda is excellent for scrubbing and removing stains and neutralizing foul odors from your trashcan.
Sprinkle one cup of baking soda at the bottom of your trashcan after it has been emptied, washed, and dried to absorb moisture and odor until the next time you take out the trashcans.
You can also spray your trash with ¼ cup of baking soda every morning to prevent it from giving off a foul odor.
Regularly vacuuming your home benefits your family healthwise; it eliminates pollutants and particles like hairs from pets, dust mites, pollens, microscopic particles, etc., that can trigger allergic reactions or irritate your mucus lining.
However, vacuuming won’t remove foul odors from water, coffee, tea, or other liquid spillages from the rug; to neutralize all bad smell from your rug or floor, soak up a ball of cotton in a nice-smelling perfume or essential oil and put it in your vacuum cleaner bag.
The vacuum cleaner releases fragrance from the scented cotton ball to neutralize foul smells as you vacuum your home.
Using pure and distilled water free from minerals in your humidifier can make it function effectively and last longer; however, it doesn’t add any fragrance to the atmosphere in your home.
Adding lemon juice to your humidifier water scents your space and prevents your humidifier from spreading mold spores and other microbial particles, which can pose serious health problems, and also prevent bacteria, mold, and mildew from growing and clogging up your humidifier.
Add 4 tablespoons of lemon juice to your humidifier water to fill your home with a pleasant, lemony fragrance.
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Angel’s trumpets, Hyacinth, Lilac, Gardenia, Carnation, Stock, Queen of the night, Muraya, Rose, Chinese rose, and Tuberose are some plants you can have in and around your home.
These plants produce flowers that give off pleasant scents. Cultivate these plants around your home and indoors to release sweet, natural fragrance into your home.
Making your home smell nice and attractive following the DIY methods listed above saves you from so much cost.
Asides from practicing any or a combination of the above DIY; opening your windows for natural ventilation, keeping your blinds and spreads clean, doing your dishes regularly, keeping your freezer free of bad smell, and keeping your environment clean can eliminate possible sources of bad odor, and also make good sweet-smelling fragrances in your home last longer.
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