Today’s q&a…
Question: What do you call friends that spill red wine on your B&B Charles Sofa?
Answer: Ex-Friends
Not so fast… Simply Spray Fabric Paint is paint that can be sprayed onto soiled furniture transforming the disfigured into something, well, “different”. According to the The New York Times, it is specially formulated not to rub off on [...]
Very nice road testing for outdoor fabrics in last week’s NYT Home & Garden.
20 swatches tested in all. ’tis the season.
related posts:
deneb teak table facelift
cb2 cares
best of 2008: pressure washer
more tubtrug love
in the beginning there was the bubble chair
Fresh from one of Clean+istry’s favorite designers, Naoto Fukasawa, is the Grande Papilio Lounge Chair.
This is not your grandmother’s wingback.
It swivels.
Because during the course of sitting in a chair, people tend to shift to the left and to the right, Fukasawa opened the back of the chair to curved sides. Papilio means butterfly in Italian. [...]
The Electrolux Versatility is the first bagless upright from Electrolux, but that’s not even half the story.
The Quick-Release Wand has a unique buckle that when pulled releases it and the hose system from the vacuum for cleaning high and down low (up to 14 feet).
Bagless cyclonic technology with a 12 Amp motor is designed to [...]
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 [...]
Core77’s greener gadgets winners were announced and guess who made it into the top 4?
Yes, the drying rack, was awarded 3rd place.
And, the laundry pod came in a close 4th.
See? Cleaning devices always capture hearts and minds and awards.
via core77
Related post:
core77’s greener gadget competition
There’s quite a groovy post at yatzer covering the exhibit Fashioning Felt at the Cooper-Hewitt. Felt is a durable, tough, stain resistant material that we enthusiastically support for the making of stools…
And rugs…
and walls…
learn more about the magic of felt in these earlier posts:
what is felt?
stock back
indoor/outdoor rugs by liora manne
table slice trivet
little field of [...]
Clean+istry woke up this morning and asked ourselves “what is the most obvious thing we can write about today?” Why, removing chocolate stains, of course. Because it’s valentine’s day. Get it?
Valentine’s day is not Clean+istry’s favorite commercially-driven holiday and not simply because it tends to skew messy with, sometimes, irreversible consequences.
Although it is always [...]
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 [...]
Just in time for the holidays, Real Simple online has introduced a new, interative guide to common stains and how to remove them. Stains are organized as follows:
Arts & Crafts
Beauty & Health
Home & Nature
Sauce & Condiment
Drink & Dessert
Simply click on the stain and steps for removing them appear. The guidelines look a bit “sponsor” driven, [...]