Readers Weigh In: This is the Room You Should Always Clean First -- Apartment Therapy Reader Month

Last year, we asked Durk Johnson, the executive director of Vacation Rental Housekeeping Professionals (VRHP), to share his simple, but fail-safe approach to quick and quality housecleaning: "Follow the Wall." His strategy suggests using your walls as a roadmap to guide your housekeeping as you move from room-to-room, cleaning each wall (and everything around it) of your home from top to bottom (so you don't miss a spot); saving the most arduous room--the kitchen--for last.