Inviting House Pests: Snacking in the Living Room

Homes are getting cozier and lifestyle centric, all thanks to today’s creative interior designers sprucing up homes in a conducive and luxurious manner. For some homes, due to space constraints, space layout is constructed creatively to suit multiple purposes and activities. Here are some common home habits that might be inviting house pests to your living or bedroom.

Open concept 2-in-1 Living & Dining Area

For smaller apartments, the living and dining area is usually integrated to utilize the minimal space effectively. As a result, we tend to do many things in the common space including snacking tea breaks and meals while working or watching TV. House Pest Danger: Food crumbs and sugared drinks may drop onto your fabric sofa, rug/carpet, trapped between gaps and corners of your furniture. Too tiny to be seen and these leftovers are excellent meals for ants and cockroaches.

Overly cluttered with furniture & fixtures

Another common home challenge is the overly cluttered living hall area with furniture, book shelves, TV entertainment and artefacts that creates more blind spots and potential habourage area for pests. House Pest Danger: dropping food bits or beverage spilling among these clutter makes it harder to spot and clutters hinder adequate and thorough domestic cleaning. Find out where are cockroaches favourite hiding spot in a home.

Bedroom is transformed into entertainment space

Let’s face it, we all love our comforting and cozy bedroom and tend to spend a lot of time engaging in personal activities within the room. For instance, reading, watching TV, drinking, working on laptop, snacking and drinking as well. House Pest Danger: dropping food traces on the bed increases attractant risks of pests such as cockroaches and ants. Cockroaches are nocturnal pests and are active at night.

Study corner are designed within bedroom

In today’s busy work environment, and the work flexibility trends, we all bring work back home. Rushing deadlines and clearing outstanding would also mean working at home over the night and weekends.