Small Apartment Cleaning Schedule

Who this is for

Singles or couples in <50m² apartments who keep finding cleaning advice designed for houses they don't have.

Cleaning advice on the internet assumes you have a 3-bed house. If you live in a studio, almost everything is overkill. You don't have a guest bathroom. You don't have a dining room. You barely have a living room.

Strip the schedule back to your actual rooms (often: bathroom, kitchen, the one main room). Thirty minutes a week, possibly less, keeps a small apartment fully functional.

The studio paradox

Small apartments feel cleaner faster but also feel dirtier faster — there's nowhere for mess to hide. The fix is high- frequency, low-effort: 5 minutes of tidy a day matters more in a studio than a weekly hour ever will. The chart should reflect that — daily 5-minute resets, weekly 20-minute clean.

How fairness is calculated

Behind the scenes, every chore gets a numeric weight from its effort (small / medium / large), frequency, and a difficulty modifier for the genuinely unpleasant tasks. The algorithm distributes weight across people, not chore counts — three counter wipes do not equal one toilet scrub, and the schedule respects that. Annoying tasks rotate separately so the same person never gets the bin two weeks running. Full details on the methodology page.

How to use it

1. Add only the rooms you actually have. Don't add a 'living room' if it's the same space as the bedroom.
2. Skip categories that don't apply. No hallway? Skip hallway chores.
3. Generate weekly. 30 minutes Sunday is enough for most studios.

FAQ