1. Dry clean your prized draperies. I’m not kidding. Your draperies are dirty. You may not realize it because you live with them every day. You don’t see how tired looking they have become or how they have lost their luster and vibrancy. Do you entertain? Believe me when I tell you that your guests are judging you by your draperies. A professional cleaning will restore your window treatments and make those colors really pop. Window treatment should be cleaned annually. This includes shades.

2. Dry clean your upholstery. Your upholstery collects the same airborne contaminants, which attack your draperies. Not to mention that they are sat on and more easily soiled. Like your draperies, dry cleaning will make your beloved upholstery smell better and look brighter. The effect is just compelling. You may even think you walked into the wrong home. Upholstery should be professionally cleaned followed by fabric protection application annually.

3. Stop sleeping with the enemy and clean your mattresses. Mattresses contain hundreds of thousands of microscopic, asthma causing, varmints (dust mites), which live off of the dead skin cells you shed while sleeping. These dust mites are harmful to your health. The best, proven method is to kill these offenders by soaking the mattresses with heated, industrial strength hydrogen peroxide and immediately extracting (vacuuming) the hydrogen peroxide containing the dead dust mites out of your mattresses. After your mattresses have dried, your family will have their best night of sleep in years, I promise. Clean those mattresses twice per year and you won’t miss a beat.

4-10. Once you have taken care of Resolutions 1 through 3, all of your other new year’s wishes should come true.