How To Clean Water Spots Off Microfiber Couch

HI ALL! It's been a while! We have taken a summer hiatus around here. July was busy to say the least, full of reunions, vacations, swimming, hiking, camping, holidays, traveling, moving/helping move, and a big yard sale at the end to top it all off!! Well we are back, not so rested and relaxed, but we are full of new recipes and awesome ideas. This one today is both gross and amazing all in one!

I got these beautiful new microfiber couches a month before I had my twins. Microfiber wont stain they said, microfiber holds up to kids they said, it will always look new they said, WELL they obviously didn't have kids or family or pets or anything sitting on their microfiber couches! Because look what 4 years and tons of sippys of water, milk, juice and who knows what else has been in there can do! YUCK! (ps. the flash on my camera seriously makes it look more awful than just looking at it with your eyes! but still... gross!!)

So I did what any normal person would do, I got on pinterest and found so many amazing before and after pictures of couches that were nasty and then transformed into beauty!
They all used rubbing alcohol and so I got all the necessary scrubbies and spray bottles and worked away and they still looked like this.....

I thought that I must have done something wrong so I read and reread and found different posts and finally I found a post that said the alcohol is for dirt and grime but WILL NOT get out hard water stains... UGH! Hard water is all we have in Southern Utah. I figured I was doomed until my better half on this blog Donna was out looking at couches and told the salesman that she would not be getting microfiber because of how my couches have turned out. He then asked if I'd ever tried distilled water...?

I hadn't but I figured that they couldn't get any worse than they already were so I got out my daughters water bottle that I use for her hair and filled it with some distilled water that I already have on hand to use in my steam mop and sprayed my couch down... not to much but enough that it had an even soak.....