Leave it to DWR to sell the Neuton Battery Powered Mower, a lawn mower that you won’t mind parking in the living room. It’s THAT attractive and CLEAN.
FACT: 800 million gallons of gas are used to fuel lawn mowers each year (@ $3.50 a gallon, that’s $2.8 Billion). Of that, about 17 million [...]
Clean+istry is doing some spring cleaning ourselves (check our spring cleaning: the 2008 list). Over the next several days we will be moving platforms and undergoing internal changes that will be transparent to you, but long-term will be good for Clean+istry’s growth and development. Sort of like pruning a tree.
Consequently, our posting [...]
The 2008 list of essential spring cleaning tasks is here for one final time.
The trees are budding. Flowers are blooming. You know the drill. So there’s precious little time left. Here’s the list for easy access:
Definitions: spring cleaning
make your rug and upholstery appointments
checking dates
the kitchen
general chores
living room and bedroom details
home [...]
The glass fronted refrigerator from Sub-Zero’s new 2008 BI series may be the ultimate motivator for maintaining a neat and tidy kitchen. Clean+istry is wary that even WE are up to the challenge.
But Sub-Zero is advancing food freshness even further in taking a cue from food wholesalers, and the medical and wine industries. Its [...]
The dominant theme at the just concluded Milan Furniture Fair has been described as “survivalist”. As The New York Times reports today:
“in piece after piece, designers explored how they can help us (and themselves) navigate the perils of contemporary life — in particular, the big problems of recession, environmental crisis and design’s neurosis about [...]
Oprah Winfrey went all out green on her show yesterday (which you realize was Earth Day, unless of course you’ve just landed from Mars). Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock and former Vice President/Academy Award Winner/Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore all stopped by for visits.
And of course greenie expert Sophie Uliano was in the house.
It [...]
Any casual reader of Clean+istry is well aware that we are HUGE fans of the designer Naoto Fukasawa (read his NYT’s profile) and the design house Plusminuszero, and particularly of the donut shaped humidifier that has transformed one of the single most ugly appliances in the home into an object deserving “placement”.
We’ve blogged the humidifier [...]
A member of Clean+istry’s family, scanning the May 2008 Men’s Health Magazine for the latest ab busting protocol, opened our eyes to the health hazards associated with the vacuum brush.
According to researchers at the University of Arizona, “50 percent of the vacuum brushes they tested contained fecal bacteria, including 13 percent with E. coli, and [...]
Early in our spring cleaning series (see definitions: spring cleaning) we mentioned that most of the original reasons for the annual ritual have been made void by modern heating and cooling systems. Clean+istry, of course, forgot to cover the one item in the home that requires the traditional spring cleaning treatment: [...]
Even the most amateur of housekeepers among us needs a good hand cream. This is what Clean+istry is using.
Heavy Duty Hand-Gear Hand Cream (it is what it is), is a blend of glycerin, antioxidant vitamins A, C
and E. Panthenol softens and protects dry, flaky skin. The fragrance is a citrus/vanilla combo–suitable for [...]