Until research uncovers a vaccine to prevent the invasion of unwanted visitors, we must prepare for the onslaught of guest season, which officially begins Memorial Day (Monday, May 25). Guest rooms are typically modest in size, otherwise “they” might choose to stay (and stay). This clever application for storing luggage racks and trays at Remodelista [...]
We’re not sending you away because we don’t love you, but we’ve got some clean links that you’ll like. They don’t involve a lot of money. They all take the spring cleaning thought one step further. And they all make sense.
storing out of season clothing, from the unclutterer
spring into tidy, courtesy of SF Chronicle
stretching out [...]
Here, in all its glory, is the spring cleaning 2009 guide.
Spring-cleaning as you all know is the Olympics of cleaning. We’re reviewing our past posts on the subject and updating them. Although we’re not quite done (we should be by week’s end) the old guidance is still valid. Some of the links, however, may be [...]
Clean+istry awoke this past Sunday morning to find no internet connection (thank you, Time Warner Cable) and so for inspiration we pulled a beautiful book from our cleaning shelf, “A Well-Kept Home: Household Traditions and Simple Secrets from a French Grandmother” by Lara Fronty & Yves Duronsoy. We hadn’t spent much time with it and [...]
A very rigorous article in today’s New York Times about the difficulty in finding a green mattress reminded us that mattress care and maintenance is too often ignored.
In the battle against dust mites (contributors to allergens and no friends of asthmatics) the mattress should be vacuumed regularly. Dust mites are microscopic beasts that feed on [...]
What would vacuums be without vacuum attachments? What would vacuums or vacuum attachments be without tips for using them? Our favorite attachment for the year was the Miele CarClean Set Plus. The turbo head does double duty when cleaning upholstery indoors.
The soft vacuum hose sock has answered the question: how do I use my central [...]
Picking up on yesterday’s “no wire hangers, ever” theme, the “Lean-On” self-standing closet rod, designed by Peter Van de Water for Cascando, seems like the perfect closet solution if you happen to be a minimalist who dresses in a single color. But wait, we can think of more applications…
Perhaps it is the perfect solution for [...]
Today, more coat hooks from Sea Stones–a New Hampshire company that harvests stones from New England beaches and rivers and makes coat racks, door knobs and stoppers from them. (another “wished we’d thought of that” idea)
If you are worried that New England beaches and rivers will soon run a deficit of stones resulting from the [...]
If the differences between an air purifier and an air humidifier seem vague meet the Hitachi Cleair 7. Yes, that’s a new word: clear+air=cleair.
In this instance “7″ represents the number of tasks this machine is capable of handling: air purifying, deodorizing, humidification, dehumidification, skin moisturizing, clothes drying and condensation control. [...]
Welcome to Clean+istry’s first guest post, featuring organizing expert Jeni Aron (aka the Clutter Cowgirl). We know Jeni. We know her work. She’s actually performed magic with an organizationally-challenged member of Clean+istry’s own family, perhaps saving a relationship in the process. Jeni specializes in infusing energy, order and focus into “stuck” [...]