When dealing with aging furniture, many people are tempted to throw out the old and buy new. Sometimes, this is the most effective way to go. However, fine quality furniture isn’t meant to simply be replaced! Deciding whether furniture refurbishing is the best option for your situation can be difficult.
Indoor air quality may be invisible, but it still has an impact on your family’s health and your home safety. Levels of many pollutants can be far higher indoors than they are outdoors — and indoor pollutants can seriously affect your health. Major factors impacting indoor air quality and home safety are air circulation and moisture levels.
Just because you don’t have room in your kitchens for a six-burner stove, double-bowl sink or Sub-Zero fridge, it doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice function or style. Here are 10 ways to max out space in your kitchens, from chic small-scale appliances to innovative storage options and details that make all the difference.
As a place to relax, socialize and have family time, the living room is a space we take a lot of pride in. But when it comes to decorating there are common mistakes we all need to avoid.
Say you’ve got a big mess on your hands. You’ve had some food spill in your kitchen, and you need to decide on a product and method to clean up so you get rid of any potentially hazardous germs. Should you sanitize or disinfect? What’s the difference between the two anyway?
‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’, is a very famous saying. It instantly connects the word cleanliness into something religious, pure, sacred and divine. But it is not so, in this modern era cleanliness has got several different interpretation to it. It is not merely a religious deed anymore. With the emergence of more and more inventions and industrializations, there have been significant rise in germs, diseases, and resultant deaths.
When you’re faced with a tough cleaning job, it’s easy to get frustrated — and tempting to get creative with how you combat it. But before you reach for every cleaning product under your sink and start playing chemist, please just don’t.
“People often think that if one product works, mixing it with another one will make it even better,” says Carolyn Forte, director of the Cleaning Lab at the Good Housekeeping Institute.
Remember about a year ago, when your cubicle neighbor Cathy caught a cold? And soon Steve in sales was sneezing. And then Harold in HR was hacking. Within a few weeks, your once chipper office mates were either surrendering to sick days or showing up for work while fighting fevers.
Sounds like the makings a productive workplace!
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” —Dale Carnegie
The idea of living a simplified, uncluttered life with less stuff sounds attractive to many. They have considered the benefits of owning fewer possessions: less to clean, less debt, less to organize, less stress, more money and energy for their greatest passions. They are ready to declutter but some get quickly tripped up by the very next question… where in the world do I begin?
How often do you launder your linens? According to a 2015 Women’s Health poll, most people wash towels and sheets fairly often—though perhaps, not as habitually as they should. “Just like with our clothes, actively used linens, especially those that touch food or skin, should be washed more frequently, while less actively used linens, like decorative hand towels or seasonal comforters, can go a bit longer,” says Maeve Richmond, founder and head coach of home organizing company Maeve’s Method.
Curious about the best cleaning practices? Read on for a few common guidelines about how regularly you should wash those oft-used fabrics.