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Ariel Scotti

How to properly clean your wood floors

Ty Mecham / Food52

After living with wall-to-wall carpeting, old laminate and chipped tiles, you're finally living in a new place with beautiful hardwood floors. Congrats! Or, you've been living there for a while and the fact that you're blessed with wood flooring hasn't occurred to you until now — the moment you've realized that you're not quite sure, exactly, how to clean wood floors.

There's vacuuming, of course, or sweeping if you're old school. But maybe your floors seem to have lost a bit of their brilliance and are looking a little dull these days. Or perhaps, like me, you're thinking that you own a bunch of different cleaning products and supplies (we like things tidy), but you're unsure what's safe to use on these natural beauties. No matter your particular predicament, you've come to the right place.

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