“Wanted: Compulsively neat, highly organized people to live in houses being marketed for sale. Must keep house suitable for showing at all times. Dirty dishes, used bath towels and stray newspapers strictly prohibited.”
When Clean+istry read this opening paragraph, we thought we’d stumbled onto our ‘dream’ job.
While not exactly a paid position, neatniks (Clean+istry’s tribe) are [...]
Results for the MUJI Award 3 were recently announced. This year’s theme was MUJI Found. Contestants were challenged with exploring products having a long tradition and adapting them for today.
Taking silver was Ken Sugimoto and Eri Sugimoto (USA) for Trash Pack for Outdoors.
“A trash bag that easily stands up by itself. By taking advantage of [...]
A few articles of note that are worth your time: Marianne Rohrlich curates 25 gifts for under $25 in NYT Home & Garden. Many are perfect for the tidy person in your life, including the Tokey dustpan and brush at Unica Home.
And ‘brought to you first by Clean+istry but who’s counting’ plastic household cleaning brushes [...]
Marla Cilley is the FlyLady and FlyLady is a 500K member self-help group who receives up to 15 e-mails a day from Ms. Cilley helping them to establish the patterns and routines to keep a tidy house. Of Yahoo!’s 9 million groups, Ms. Cilley’s is the largest.
Ms. Cilley is a passionate flyfisher, but the FLY in flylady stands [...]
Stefan Buchberger, from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, has been chosen winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2008 competition for inventing Flatshare.
Someday, in the not-so-distant-future, there is hope that one person’s spoiled milk or stinky cheese may not have to be endured by others under shared circumstances. “Flatshare” consists of a base station [...]
A recent Consumer Reports investigation into the E.P.A./Department of Energy’s home appliance energy efficiency rating system raises the question of whether the Energy Star’s “star” has fallen (Energy Star Has Lost Some Luster).
Many issues are involved. Chief among them are claims of testing loopholes and procedures that lag current technology and testing standards. As evidence, [...]
For more on the radon and granite countertop controversy, read Consumer Reports’ blog posting.
CR is mostly skeptical regarding the issue’s scale, which might result in a massive run on CeasarStone (CeasarStone Blizzard pictured). Their review of the research uncovers a tangled array of special interests behind the research.
Still, testing is the ultimate step for [...]
The New York Times greeted us this morning with ominous warnings about potentially elevated levels of radon lurking within our granite countertops. Great.
Depending on which expert you choose to believe, the risk has either “always been there and it’s no big deal” OR preparing your morning coffee poses identical hazards to a half-pack-a-day cigarette [...]
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 [...]