Guidelines to Maintain Your Decorative Cabinet Wreaths

Without a doubt, lovely cabinet wreaths bring a unique charm and warmth to your kitchen and serve to highlight your individual style. Nevertheless, maintaining and keeping their beauty is important. Your kitchen is one of the busiest rooms within your home and, with added activities of cooking, the presence of oils and humidity, and the everyday movement around the room, wreaths can become neglected and dusty, losing their beauty. With a little work and routine care, you can keep your wreaths looking good. Here are a few suggestions to help you keep your cabinet wreaths looking good for a long time.

Dust Your Wreaths First

Dust is the enemy of all home decorations and dusting is one of the chores that no one is looking forward to. Cabinet wreaths can be quickly and easily dusted with a soft cloth. For gentle dusting, you can try microfiber cloths, feather dusters, or even a small brush.

A tiny detail of the wreath can be cleaned with a make-up brush to clear the dust.

Wreaths located above stove tops and coffee makers are likely to acquire extra moisture and dust. Use the cool setting on your blow dryer to remove dust particles from the arrangement, in such cases.

Safest methods to clean faux greenery.

In the event that your cabinet wreaths need more than a dusting, there is a way to clean them without fading the wreath colors. Take a damp cloth that has been dipped in a soapy water mixture and wipe the foliage, but be cautious not to soak the wreath, and do not spray it with water, as this will loosen the glue and warp the wreath.

Store bought wreaths which include fabric such as ribbons, bows and felt will need the fabric pieces to be spot cleaned. Excess moisture will either run the dyes or change the texture of the fabric. It is also important to make sure that the stems that have wire are dry in order to avoid rusting.

Preventing Damage from Kitchen Heat to Wreaths

Hanging cabinet decor is one of the most vulnerable types of home decor because they experience constant indirect heat and are screened from view. When hanging cabinet wreaths, be sure to place them further away from steam sources like kettles, stovetops, and dishwashers. Since heat and moisture are the main causes of wreath deterioration, be sure to position the wreath so that it is far from these appliances if possible.

If you are performing some meal prep that is likely to release steam and oily vapor into the air, it is recommended that you try to keep the air as clean as possible by operating the stove vent and/or opening a window. Wreaths that have been hanging for some time and are subsequently cleaned from dust will be much more difficult to clean, but this task will be simplified with proper ventilation.

The Change of Seasons

Cabinet wreaths can be designed to give the illusion of being new for each season byReplacing wreaths on a seasonal basis. This has the added benefit of protecting the wreaths as well. Once wreaths get switched out, the wreaths can be cleaned and stored away to take a multi-season break from hanging. Providing wreaths a hanging ‘break’ protects them from gaining dust and oils and exposure to sunlight.

How to Safely Store Your Wreaths Between Holidays

For wreaths, maintenance starts by appropriately storing wreaths over the holiday season break. It is optimal to individually bag each wreath for best protection into large ziplock bags labeled for each wreath, or store them into a small plastic tote and label each wreath for organization and efficiency. To help wreaths keep the branch shape, tissue paper can be used to line the inside of each wreath as a cushion. To keep the plastic from fading or warping as a result of sunlight exposure, store the wreaths in a cool, dark, and dry place.

Strategies To Maintain Your Decorations For Years

With only a minimal time commitment every season, your cabinet dust wreaths will look gorgeous, clean, and cheerful year-round. Getting your wreaths back to their former glory requires you to reset, dust, and clean them with intention every season, and to store them properly afterward. Your kitchen will every season easily acquire the charm that comes with your kitchen dust wreaths.