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We have a system of daily and weekly duties to keep our house clean. Our house has 25 single rooms, a large kitchen, a large lounge/lobby/dining area, and 3 bathrooms. Even though it's a house full of girls, the house gets really dirty, really quick. We have cleaning people that come 3 times a week to do the floors and take out the trash, and clean the bathrooms. Even with that, we have a big problem with keeping our kitchen clean and people leaving their shit in common areas. Last semester there were 4 daily duties and 5 weekly duties.
The four daily duties were kitchen, lobby, 1st floor bathrooms, 3rd floor bathrooms. People signed-up for 14 duties per semenster, on they day they had a duty the house manager would put a door tag with her duty on her door first thing in the morning.
The kitchen duty involved cleaning the counters/stove/appliances and putting any dirty dishes/pots/utensils in a bin (and everything in the bin is thrown out at the end of the week). The bin used to be emptied every day, but there was a lot of hostility in the house.
The lobby duty involved straightening up the furniture, smoothingout the sofa covers, cleaning the tables, throwing away trash, and then putting misc crap that people left in a bin in our mail room (again, emptied at the end of the week).
The bathroom duties are pretty self explanitory, replace the tp, lysol the stalls, clean the mirrors, etc.
The weekly duties are vacuuming (1st&2nd floors, 3rd &4th floors), cleaning the laundry room (and doing a load of house laundry), and something else which escapes me.
It works pretty well all in all, having door tags to remind people helps a *lot*. Also, there is a fine for missed duties, 3$ for daily, 5$ for weekly.
Next semester we're trying out a system that has 23 weekly duties (all much smaller than the previous). The smaller suties would be cleaning out the ashtray in front of the house, vacuuming one floor, cleaning just mirrors, etc.
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