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The weekend has arrived and by Sunday the cobwebs of the previous six days have been erased. We are relaxed. We are ready to plunge into a small cleaning task [...]
A shoe “pile-up” near your front door hopefully means that the great “outdoors” are not being distributed throughout the house by a pair of menacing Pumas.
Clean+istry loves the horizontal shoe rack by the brothers Mark and Jamie, founders of the London-based design studio j-me. Shoes float in the air, giving you easy access to [...]
It may at first appear that we have chosen to pick on the wheel this week. We have not. When accurately steered and controlled, certain applications are perfectly acceptable. Taxis, for instance, we enjoy. Buses…not so much.
Other situations must be strictly monitored.
The canister of the Miele Vacuum resides on a set of [...]
Clean+istry apologizes for our light posting last week. We made a last minute trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico and West Texas. As guests in a private home for part of the week, we reflected on what it meant to be a clean guest. Naturally, over the coming days we will share our [...]
Upholstered furniture should be vacuumed once a week. Sorry but you must. Use the upholstery attachment of the vacuum.
Beautiful furniture demands rigorous maintenance. With storm clouds swirling about Wall Street, you may need to hang onto your Italian friend a year or two longer than planned.
Think about it. Your couch has [...]
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Jasper, Clean+istry’s Lakeland Terrier, is a very clean pooch. He does not shed (hair, not fur) and upon returning home from the street, his paws receive a thorough wipe. Still, in addition to his [...]
Here at Clean+istry, we are preservationists. Why create a problem, when it can be avoided in the first place?
Over the next several days, perhaps weeks, we will consider the art of vacuuming.
Of course we will cover the basics: frequency, technique, and models that best suit a modern life. Our guess is that [...]
Clean+istry made two trips to Japan in the past year and almost never left the bathroom either time.
No, the sushi agreed with us just fine.
Clean+istry is drawn to Japan for many reasons…the architecture, the food, bullet trains that run on time and, of course, a national obsession with personal hygiene.
Each morning and evening we skipped [...]