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How to Clean a White Farmhouse Sink

May 14, 2014 By: Stephanie11 Comments

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how to clean a white sink

One of my must-haves when we designed our kitchen was a double bowl, white farmhouse-style sink.

I love my sink. It holds a ton of dishes, it’s the perfect depth for me not to be constantly bending over, it holds large pots, and the double bowl makes it easy to have a “clean side” and a “dirty side” when I’m washing pots and pans. Plus, it was really affordable. Our sink is from IKEA.  It’s the DOMSJO Double Bowl. It cost about $300, which is insanely cheap if you have ever tried pricing out other apron front double bowl sinks.

The only downside to having this type of sink is that it can be kind of a pain to keep clean.

I learned how to clean a white farmhouse sink a few years ago from my friend Liz’s mom, Ms. Jeannie. We had a white sink in our last house as well. I’ve been cleaning my sink this way ever since I saw Ms. Jeannie do it to hers.

It really does eliminate the gross ring that can sometimes form around the bottom of the bowl and it has even gotten off a ring rust that was left by the bottom of a pot. 

All you need is baking soda and lemon juice. (You can use vinegar instead, but I prefer lemon juice because vinegar smells awful.) I use the fake stuff in the bottle from the grocery store because I hate to waste a real lemon every time I want to clean my sink.

I do this as often as I do dishes. Every time I load this dishwasher, I clean my sink too. I just consider it to be part of doing the dishes. Don’t let that fool you into thinking I’m some sort of clean freak who does this every day, because my poor sink sometimes sits with dirty dishes in it forever.

Before:

how to clean a white sink

Once the sink is empty, sprinkle baking soda liberally inside of it. Then squeeze a little lemon juice onto the baking soda and use a scrub brush to work it together into kind of a paste. Just use the scrub brush to work the baking soda/lemon juice mixture all around and rinse with hot water.

(I forgot to take a real “before” photo, so I had already sprinkled in the baking soda. My bad.)

During:

 clean a white sink with baking soda and lemon juice

After:

 

how to clean a farmhouse sink

Ta-da!

 

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  1. Meredith says

    May 14, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    So smart! I grew up with a sink like this and we could never get it clean. My dad still loves there and will be a big fan of this solution đŸ™‚

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  2. franceshanlonFrances Hanlon says

    May 14, 2014 at 10:49 pm

    Hi I had the same sink for year. Loved it,but, there was these light grey sort of scratches on the finish that always made it seem dull. Not the beautiful white like when I first started. I’m on an iPad and it kind of looks like yours might be the same.
    One day on a blog I discovered a cleaner they sell at Home Depot. Probably lowes too.
    Bar Keepers friend. It works awesome, made my sink look like new again. If you should decide to try it get the powder. It cleans chrome taps to shining like you have never seen. Just a little FYI if your interested.
    Cheers Frances

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  3. aly says

    November 2, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    This really works! I just tried it and my sink looks brand new! It had icky brownish staining all over and I would use heavy detergents on it and nothing worked. I also hate using chemicals. Thanks for the tip!!

    Reply
  4. Tina Bone says

    December 11, 2014 at 10:25 am

    Thank you so much for sharing this! I’m trying to reduce the chemicals in my cleaning routine!

    Reply
  5. celestial says

    April 26, 2016 at 1:25 pm

    You ARE using chemicals with this method. Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate and lemon juice contains citric acid. This is basically the same as the classic science fair volcano; an acid reacting with a base (the foaming usually associated with the classic pairing of vinegar (acetic acid) and a base (sodium bicarbonate)). They are relatively weak chemicals, but they are chemicals!

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    • Rosanna Harvey says

      January 19, 2017 at 6:39 am

      Thank you for that clarification

      Reply
  6. Christy says

    February 3, 2017 at 7:16 pm

    Thank you so much! Worked great. I was so worried as my parents just bought me this sink and I couldn’t get it clean

    Reply
  7. Cherie Doherty says

    September 10, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    Vigo should publish this on their site. Vigo is no help whatsoever. Thank you for sharing!

    Reply

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