This post is sponsored by HomeRight but all ideas and opinions are my own :)
It is that time of year when we get to trim our trees, hang lights, and pull out our holiday decor from storage. There's a new steam machine in town that will help you freshen up your home for the holidays!
The new machine, called the SteamMachine Elite comes with pretty much everything. A mop, extensions, tons of attachments and an accessory bag that can fold up or hang. My favorite thing is to steam up our rugs. If you live with boys and a dog, you may notice your rugs can start to smell like corn chips. Eww. Add the carpet glide (the black triangle) over the mop head and it easily glides over rugs and freshens them up!
HomeRight SteamMachine Elite Steam Cleaner
Take the glide off and mop your floors!
I keep my holiday pillows in totes out in the garage. They also smell stale and sometimes are wrinkled from being smoothed. Add the fabric steamer attachment with the cloth bonnet and steam your pillows! It works great on upholstery too.
TIPS for Freshening Up Your Home For The Holidays
Tablecloths
If you are like me, the only time the tablecloths see the light of day is during the holidays. They have almost permanent creases from being folded for the whole year. I hate ironing clothes but huge table cloths are the worst. If you have an indoor clothes line, it is easy to hang the table cloth up and steam away or steam it while it is on the table before you set it.
Holiday Pillows
Even though I keep my holiday throw pillows in plastic totes in the garage I still feel like they need to be freshened up. At the very least they are stale (for lack of a better word). Most of the time holiday pillows are adorned with sequins, jingle bells, pompoms and other things that make us hesitate to throw them in the washing machine. The steamer is perfect for killing germs and refreshing those pretty pillows without harming them.
Tree Skirts
Tree skirts fall into the same category as throw pillows as far as not wanting to throw them in the wash. But they need to be cleaned up too. The hand held steamer is perfect!
Floors
Do you want to know what I look forward to the LEAST when hosting a dinner or party? The fact that I have to mop before AND after the party. Make that task easier with the steam mop!
GIVEAWAY!
HomeRight is offering the chance to win one of their NEW SteamMachine Elites! Enter below using the rafflecopter widget.
You must be at least 18 years old to enter. You must be a resident of the USA to enter. The giveaway will go from December 1, 2018 to December 8, 2018. A winner will be chosen by random.org and will be notified by email. The winner will have 48 hours to respond before a new winner will be chosen. The shipping of the prize is the responsibility of the company, in this case, HomeRight.
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My tile floors would be the first on my list to use the steamer on. My daughter has one, but she lives on the coast. Not close by at all.
I would steam clean my living room sofa and chair.
I would like to steam clean my foyer tile.
Definitely cleaning the kitchen floor first!
I would clean my carpeted steps. I do not enjoy hauling out the big carpet cleaner for those steps! Thanks for the chance to win!
Living room floor would be the first thing tackled with this!
Love to use the steam machine on my kitchen floors tiles. Lots of cooking in my kitchen means the floor takes a beating.
I would go steam crazy on every inch of my kitchen!
Wow! So awesome! I think this thing coukd actually get me excited about cleaning! I have a dog and a teenage boy.....and I'm not sure which smells worse!!! The first thing I would tackle would be my couch and recliner!
My wood floors.
The first thing I would clean is my stovetop! Thanks for the awesome giveaway :)
I would definitely steam clean my couch! The kids and the dog give it no mercy!
The first thing I would steam clean is the couch - ad the bathrooms.
I have 3 cats. Need I say more? Looks great! Merry Christmas!
I would steam clean my throw pillows and sofa cushions.
Wow! Thanks home right and you, Stacy for the chance to get in on this steamer?
It works on so many things, I'm not sure what i would clean first.
I smiled when I got to your pet peeve comment about steaming your floors before and after a get together,because it made me think of this past Thanksgiving when Turkey dropped on my floor and I said to my sister in law... "Man, I just cleaned my floors!!' and she looks at me and said..." well,you know they'll need it again! "
Ah, the holidays. So much work and then more after! Hahaha?
Happy Holidays everyone! Good luck and happy steaming?
Wow I would love to try this! With 3 stray cats thatbare in and out all day my carpets are ready! Thank you!
I would steam clean my kitchen floor first.
I need to freshen up my rug and sofa. Thank you!
The first item I would steam clean would be my couch.
My floors would be first. The grout gets so dingy and a mop just doesn’t get it clean.
I have two huskies, a cat and a husband...every morning neck of our home could use steaming...LOL. Though I’d probably start with the bathroom.
First on my list would be all the furniture in my Living Room.
I would go crazy on all the bathrooms in my house with this machine.
I'd love to use this first in my kitchen. It would look amazing especially for everyone coming over on Christmas Eve.
I would clean all the pillows in my house and my reading chair.
SOunds like an awesome machine! Would love to try it on my hardwood floors!!
I would steam our stairs to freshen them up.
HomeRight makes really wonderful products, this would be great for cleaning floors.
wow using the steam machine seems like an easy peasy way to freshen the whole house, thank you for the chance to win one xx
I would definitely freshen up the couch!
I would start with my holiday linens. I hate ironing them!
i would clean my floor, of course! At 73, I am findings housework rather hard, and after the floor, I would do the furniture, the the walls for cobwebs, the curtains, in fact I could use it throughout my whole house.
I would definitely steam clean my large braided rug in the middle of my living room. It really needs a freshening up! Thanks for the chance to win.
I would clean my kitchen floor.
I would do my floors!
I would steam clean the couch
I would deep clean my wood floors!
looks very easy to use, not heavy to move around.
At my age and with all the grandchildren, I need all the help I can get when it comes to cleaning. As far as what would be the first thing to clean-----my floors. I always feel as if they aren't a clean as they should be.
The carpet - especially the stair carpet!! It was light tan ( in the house when we bought it), but now is just very dirty looking. And no one wants to be constantly scrubbing it!!! Your tree is beautiful!
I would steam clean my carpet
This would be great for furniture!
I would steam clean my bathroom, the chrome the floors around the toilets, all of it.
My bathroom floor
My furniture. I have cats and they climb on everything.
Wonderful, especially for those of us with pets!
I would steam clean the wood floor in my kitchen. Then my livingroom rug. Thank you for the opportunity
I want to try steam cleaning my car...we bought a bissel vacuum but it didn't accomplish all I thought it would.
I would start with our kitchen floor!
Stacy,
I agree with you about tablecloths and the holiday pillows. They could use a good one of steam to fresh them up.
What a great multipurpose machine!
Carpet...without doubt! Then furniture a close second!
My husband! Ha!
Oh, Staci, the floor by the back door where all the 'winter' is coming in! Thanks.
My kitchen floor!
I would steam clean my kitchen tile floors first. Thank you for the amazing giveaway!
Hugs,
Erin
I would love to have a great smelling house I would steam clean everything!. Your tree is beautiful as is your house.
I would steam clean my kitchen floors. They really need it.
Definitely my hard wood floor, we have 2 dogs and when it's rain, our floor got so dirty! Thank you for the chance!!! :-)
I would definitely clean the floors first!
My kitchen floors
Our mattress!
And oh so much more...top to bottom.
YES! Thanks.
My couch
Hard floors and the bathroom!
My couch!
My floors
I'd go right after our sofa!
With 2 dogs and 5 cats the first thing I would clean is all the floors in my house. Then on to the area rugs and finally the upholstery. I'm sure it could use it. :)
First thing I would steam clean is definitely my kitchen floor! I feel like no matter what I do, it's never really clean.
I would go absolutely bananas crazy and steam clean everything!!!!!! We just ended a long home addition and renovation and everything could use a real good clean!
I would freshen up my sofa and stairs. They could use a good steaming. Then I’d probably get carried away and do the whole house ?
My floors, with four kids they get so dirty!
I would love a superb machine like that and the first thing that I would clean would be I would sanitize my kitchen and my cabinets and the top of my refrigerator! And then I'd move on to freshen up the carpeting from having dogs! And three cats! And an adult son! And grandchildren... You get the idea
Oh my goodness, the first thing I would steam clean are my carpeted stairs! They are such a pain to clean!!
All great tips, especially the pillows.! Thanks for the giveaway!
Steam cleaning my wood floors sounds like a great idea. What about area rugs?!!
My elderly cat did a number on the carpet so I would clean the carpet in the entire house, then I would clean all of the tile.
I would clean my floors!!!! Or couch! Or chairs...mattresses? I don't know what I would clean first, hahaha!!!
Kitchen!
My kitchen floor! My mop broke and it needs to be cleaned!
What an awesome and compact steam cleaner! First thing I’d clean is the rug under our dining room table!
The entire floor of my house!
I would love to steam clean my range hood.
My carpet!
OMG! I would use this all over my house! (Even freshen up my beds!!)
Thanks for sharing and hosting this giveaway!
I would steam clean my tile kitchen floor and then the bathroom floors.
the kitchen floors would be first
My floors for sure would be the first!!
I very much need to clean the rugs! I've tried before with a cloth, but it didn't help much. This would be so useful for that :)
Great tips! I'd definitely love to tackle the kitchen first - all the nooks & crannies & window runners/seals, plus the kitchen floor!