21 Ways To Make Your Home Smell Good (Okay, Amazing!)

Make Your Home Smell Amazing

Sometimes no matter how many times we clean, scrub or take out the garbage there is still lingering odors we just can’t get rid of. Discover 21 ways to make your home smell good including simple and easy ways to DIY on a budget.

How To Make Home Smell Good

Making your home smell amazing could just boil down to a good spring cleaning and scrubbing of all things grimy. Or if your like most families with active sports minded busy children, a family pet or two plus a busy schedule you may need some extra help in making your home smell good.

Household Odor

We have two very active boys, a dog, a busy household and we spend a lot of time both indoors and outdoors in the garden and playing.

Odors After Cleaning

Sometimes even after a heavy deep clean there are lingering odors in the kitchen, bathroom and the boys rooms. The mudroom well… when you gather up shoes, jackets, boots and sports equipment in one place, toss in gardening gloves you get a smell all it’s own.

Cleaning Tips & Tricks

I can proudly say that we have successful used the tips and tricks below to make our house smell amazing even on the busiest of days.

How To Make Your Room Smell Good

Each individual room in your home can produce it’s own odor. For example lingering garlic or onion smell coming from the kitchen. Dirty laundry can cause the kids rooms and the laundry room to smell a bit off.

DIY Cleaning Fix

Each one is an easy fix if you can pin point the smell and eliminate it. Also adding a room diffuser or an essential oil spray bottle to mist the area.

DIY Air Fresheners

This is our diffuser of choice it will make approximately 1000 sq. ft. smell amazing all day long and has numerous time settings. The Prairie Homestead has a great list of homemade air freshener recipes you can DIY to make your rooms smell great.

How To Make Your Home Smell Good Naturally

DIY Stovetop Room Scent Recipes – Hip2Save

DIY Gel Air Freshener – A Life Adjacent

Fabric Refresher – Far From Normal

Pine & Lemon Natural Cleaner – Simply Natural Sara

Cheap Way To Make Your Home Smell Good

To rid your house of lingering bad smells here are a few cheap and easy things you can do:

Take out the compost and garbage daily
Clean your garbage disposal by sending one lemon rind and a handful of ice cubes through the on cycle
Clean your house weekly using natural cleaners
Wash your clothes and linens regularly
Add a few lavender sachets to the linen drawers and broom closet

How To Make Your Home Smell Good For A Real Estate Showing

Selling a house can be stressful. Put your home buyers at ease and promote a possible sale by:

Ensuring the house and all rooms are thoroughly clean
Ask the seller to take all pets with them and put animal beds and toys in the garage or storage
Bake a tray of chocolate chip cookies before the sale and leave them on the counter
Add orange essential oil to a reed diffuser in the bathrooms or mudroom
Place an essential oil diffuser in the family room with a mild scent like vanilla or lavender

How To Make A Large Room Smell Good

Generally the largest rooms in a home are the kitchen, family room and the master bedroom.

Simmer pots are a great way to make your kitchen smell amazing. Learn how to here.
Create coffee bean votives to place in the family room to make your space smell like your favorite coffee shop. What’s Mary Doing has a great tutorial.
DIY and create your own potpourri with the uplifting smell of citrus. Turnip In The Oven created Homemade Dried Citrus Wheels.

How To Freshen Air In House

Add a room diffuser
Put scented dryer sheets over your air vents
Light a scented candle like this one
DIY your own reed diffuser to add a light scent to any room and freshen the air

How To Get An Amazing Smelling Home On A Budget

Create a Eucalyptus Wall Hanging – The Effortless Chic

Homemade Lavender Carpet Deodorizer – Life-N Reflection

DIY Fragrant Wax Melts – Hello Glow

Homemade Citrus Bowl Herbal Diffusers – Life-N Reflection

Common Household Smells

Common household odors include dirty laundry, garbage, sweaty gym equipment, pet accessories, shoes, carpeting and the little bits of grit and grime that get left behind.

DIY Household Deodorizer

Homemade Lavender Linen Spray – Freebie Finding Mom

DIY Essential Oils Air Freshener – A Life Adjacent

Lemon Lavender Carpet Powder – Modern Homestead Mama

DIY Fabric Deodorizer – Good Life Eats

Trash Can Tabs – A Retro Housewife Goes Green

Best Way To Deodorize House

The best way to deodorize your home is to keep it clean. Dump your garbage daily. Stay on top of the dirty laundry. Add an essential oils diffuser to every floor or area of the home like this one. Invest in natural based cleaners. And work to eliminate odors quickly as soon as they are noticed.

How To Keep Your Home Smelling Good All The Time

No matter how hard or how often you deep clean your home there will always be some form of odor. Simply cooking with onions or garlic can add a smell to a home.

Cleaning Schedule

Keeping a regular cleaning schedule. Staying on top of messes. Using natural cleaners and some of the amazing suggested DIY deodorizers plus essential oils will help you keep your home smelling great all the time.