If you’ve noticed your ceiling fan is less effective, it may be due for a cleaning. Dirty fan blades don’t move air as efficiently, as the extra weight can slow down the fan’s speed. Alongside other ...

When you’re taking a few minutes to quickly tidy up your home, you probably focus on what’s most visible—things like floors, countertops, and stuff at eye-level. Even when you’re doing more of a ...

Popcorn ceilings found their way into homes in the 1950s, and while they have definitely fallen out of favor, there are still millions of homes with textured ceilings that need to be cleaned. Follow ...

If you live in a house that’s more than a few decades old, you likely have popcorn ceilings, which rose in popularity in the mid-1900s. Contractors liked the spray-on texture because it was cheap and ...

Cleaning a ceiling fan can be a messy endeavor if you don’t have the right tricks of the trade on your side. If you’re only working with a duster, you can end up with dust bunnies falling on your ...

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Clean your ceiling fans about once a month to limit dust buildup. "The blowing of air one way draws air, dust, and other floating particles into the fan from the opposite direction," says Latoya ...

Installing an outdoor ceiling fan will provide breezy summer nights, make your outdoor space more comfortable, and help keep mosquitoes away. Ceiling fans with lights can also help illuminate your ...

A useful way to approach spring cleaning is to look up, then look down: Places in our home — like baseboards, moldings, window casings and ceiling fans — that fall outside our sightline are typically ...

If you've tried cleaning a ceiling fan, you know it's not an easy task with standard tools. As green living blog Re-Nest has discovered, it's actually really simple and hassle-free if you just use a ...

Warm weather and ceiling fans go hand-in-hand. The hotter the days, the longer the fans run — and the more that dust collects on the edges of the blades. Unless you want clumps to fling around every ...