How can I stop dust from accumulating around the edges of objects on the floor?

i think you might have to do some cleaning

I have wooden floors in some rooms in my house and they get more dust balls at the edges of the rooms. I think walking around makes the dust float off then settle on something else, dust will stick to rougher surfaces like fabric rather than smooth wooden floors.

Rooms that are more dusty are the bedroom (not sure why, maybe taking off clothes releases dust off clothes and skin?) and the living room which has a woodburner that fluffs out ash dust. Damp dusting (get a duster, put it in water, squeeze out really well then wipe the dusty surfaces) gets rid of the dust where as dry dusting tends to just move it about and it will resettle quite quickly

If you have a forced air furnace, make sure you use a better quality furnace filter, and change it monthly. If you have pets, you probably need to run a dust mop on your floor daily or every other day to keep it under control. I’m looking at tufts of cat hair on the kitchen floor as I type this; just swept 8 hours ago…

Nothing you can do but what has already been suggested.
You can minimize the amount of dust by not opening your windows too much.
Use carpets in the rooms so dust doesn’t blow so easily.
Damp mop.
Buy lots of lotion and exfoliate more often in the shower and then lotion up really well so you don’t shed skin cells everywhere so much. (most of dust is dead skin cells)
Change your sheets more often and be sure not to shake them out on the way to the washer.
Vacuum your sofa more often.
Drink plenty of water so you don’t need so much lotioning.
Clean your air vents more often
Groom your pets outside if possible.
Use a damp cloth when dusting your furniture. It will cut down the amount of dust flying back into the air. It can take a while for dust to settle back down. So no sooner you are done the dust that flew up into the air has settled back down again on your stuff.
Use hepa filter bags for your vacuum.
Buy a hepa filter.
Change all your filters often and be sure to either do it outside or at least have a plastic bag in which to dispose of the dusty filters into quickly and cover before the dust is released back into the air. Especially your vacuum bags.

Control the source of the dust, first. Most household dust is the result of wear of fabric and your own hair and skin cells. You can’t do much about shedding hair and skin cells except bathe frequently, but fabric wear can be minimized. Tear out your carpets, number one. If you have carpets in the house, then walking over them is probably the primary source of “dust” as the fabric wears minutely with every step that you take. Your clothing also abrades with everything it touches (and every wash and dry cycle, too) and that adds to the accumulation. Get rid of your pets, obviously (the ones on four feet or which have wings, anyway).

Dust from outside can be controlled by making sure that windows remain closed and well sealed, that outer clothing and shoes are removed in an enclosure and not brought inside the house, and any other way to control the ingress of unfiltered air and particles from outside.

Me? I just learn to live with some dust.

All of the things others have stated.
Cleaning and minimizing the entrance of dust and pollens from outisde is about all you can do.
Having screens in your window that are made up of micro-mesh screen are helpful too.
I have hardwood floors and leather furniture to help stop the trapping of it in fabric or carpets.
I have always had dogs, so I am on top of the dust & fur fluff anyway.

On the lighter side:
Dust Bunny Facts

The same thing happens to me with the fur shed by my kitties. I just use a dustbuster every other day or so to suck up the bunnies that accumulate.

If you’re used to having carpets and now have bare floors, you’ll notice it a lot more.

It’s like some kind of torture, isn’t it? I sweep daily and nothing helps. I’m blaming the cats.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir: Milo here: I beg your pardon? Gail is hoping that I will stop shedding, but I’d have to be completely bald first. The pleasure of the white fur on a yellow wide-board pine floor is very satisfying.

She has a Dust Buster, which is really annoying…plus the noise. Remember that cats have very acute hearing.

Hermetically seal your hlouse, have a forced reverse presure or vacuum airlock before entering the residence and wear a sealed haz-mat suit (head to toe) you won’t have any dust or any you will have to sweel up more than once a week or two. Just don’t blame the cats Inky, CK, and Splotch might have to come shread some furniture…they don’t because they are good cats but…....exceptions can be made.

You will definitely have to dust and clean more often, but in between, if you don’t already have one of those microfiber dusting thingees or one of these static dusters, get one. They make them with longer handles so you don’t have to scrunch down. But make sure that you take them outside with the door closed to “spin” the dust out of them. Then wash them fairly often.

As every one has mentioned there’s really no way to stop it completely. Your only choices are to try to minimize the amount of dust in the air with a good furnace filter and a hepa air filter, a good vacuum with a good filter so it doesn’t possibly send dust back into the air and then just vacuuming up the dust that does settle unless you want to reengineer and renovate your house to the standards of a “clean room” like the kind they make computer chips in, as @WasCy suggests. Dust happens. You can also find recommendations online in protocols for minimizing dust for people with dust mite allergies. Here’s an example and here’s another one. It’s a big effort; a lot of work. I was hoping to find, but couldn’t, the one I came across a couple of years ago that read like either a protocol for dust proofing your home or a description of a person with severe obsessive complulsive disorder.

Change the air filters monthly. Take a look at where the air intake is, on the floor, in the ceiling along a hallway, the front door entranceway?

In our house for example, the intake vent is in a hallway that leads to all bedrooms and one shared bathroom where the family cat has a litter box so we have massive amounts of shoes dust and animal dander to filter away. I reversed the intake vent cover to suck air from above rather than below, not only to suck more hot air away but to not suck directly from the stuff on the floor. We use a really tightly woven filter, almost like fabric and have cut up other filters into squares to place inside our output vents so the air directly into bedrooms goes through a piece of filter first before swooshing right into our noses and throats.

Definitely damp dust/mop and change the vaccum filters often. When I looked behind the vent cover of our intake then it’s just a big empty space that’s collected dust over the years so we’re bringing a shop vac in to suck that crap up otherwise it just goes round and round. Follow the source of your air into the house/apt and try different things to see what works.