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House Cleaning Checklist by Room: Kitchen, Bathroom, Bedroom & Living Room

A whole-house list is noise; a room list is a plan. Here's a complete checklist for each room with realistic time estimates — use them as-is, or as the template for your own.

Kitchen (worst-case total: ~75m — never do it all at once)

Bathroom (~60m worst case)

Bedroom (~45m worst case)

Living room (~50m worst case)

How to actually use these lists

Print-and-laminate works until the third week, when the list stops matching reality — you did the floors Tuesday, skipped the shower, and now the paper is lying to you. Whatever tool you use, the checklist needs three properties: tasks stay small (one action, one checkmark), each has a time estimate so you can fill a spare 15 minutes honestly, and done items come back on their own schedule instead of relying on your memory. The schedule half of that is covered in our daily/weekly/monthly schedule.

🫧 How Bubbles ships these lists

Every room above exists in Bubbles as a preset library — the same tasks, times, and sensible frequencies, one tap to add. Rooms track their own cleanliness score, so the app always knows (and shows) which list deserves your next 15 minutes. Odd room the presets don’t cover? Photograph it and the AI scan writes the checklist for you.

Build your rooms in Bubbles (5 minutes)

  1. Add your rooms — defaults cover the four above; custom rooms get their own icon and color.
  2. Open each room → add presets. Skip what doesn’t apply to your home.
  3. Let the Daily tab split the load so no single day ever holds a 75-minute kitchen.

These checklists, prebuilt

Every list on this page ships inside Bubbles as room presets — with time estimates, difficulties, and schedules already attached.

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