Maintaining your Cabinet

Now that you have your customized IKEA Greenhouse cabinet running, maintaining your cabinet is a very important task to keep in mind to keep the environment optimal and healthy for your plants! Here are some tips that we keep in mind when we refresh our cabinet. We try our best to clean about once a month.

Take out all of your Plants

Pressurized Sprayer can be helpful with cleaning your cabinet. Mix water and a gentle cleaning solution.

Removing all of your plants may be a bit of a hassle, but can be helpful to get all of the areas of your cabinet for a deep clean. We like to remove everything and spray down the cabinet with cleaning solution. Some people have shared that they use a pressurized spray (with water and soap) in order to spray down the entire cabinet. We often just use Windex for the windows and an All-Purpose cleaner, but we feel that if you have a lot of cabinets then this pressurized spray idea would be a great method.

Wipe down all areas of the Cabinet

Using cloth or paper towels, wipe down all areas of your cabinet. Depending on the levels of humidity in your cabinet, it can be important to clean your cabinet thoroughly to prevent mold.

Maintaining Acrylic Shelves

Taking extra steps for your acrylic shelves and accessories can also be helpful in maintaining and extending the longevity! We use this Acrylic Cleaner for our acrylic shelves. This can help clean, polish, and protect your acrylic shelves. It also helps with anti-static, preventing dust and debris from sticking to the shelves.

Return Plants into Cabinet

Dry completely or air out if you wish, and return all of the plants into the cabinet. We try to clean about once a month but of course, aren’t perfect and so some months are left untouched— that’s okay! We have never found any huge issues come up if you don’t clean it. It is more for how it looks and might be a nice opportunity to re-arrange your cabinet!

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