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 [...]
Excellent post on removing water ring stains from wood furniture in last week’s NYT’s The Fix. In it, Tim McKeough gives step-by-step instructions on eliminating white rings (relatively easy) and black rings (not so much).
Of course, unprotected beverage vessels are the bane to any fine piece of furniture’s existence. Prevention is essential. Placemats or coasters [...]
We love this grass green lambswool felt coaster, but our first instinct was to dismiss it outright because coasters are the first line of defense for spills and how would we ever clean it?
Felt is naturally stain and dirt resistant, which makes it good for coasters and placemats. According to Canoe, these felt coasters can [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Thanksgiving is a time not only to reflect on all that is good but ALSO to tackle cleaning chores requiring extra consideration–say “leaf stains” on the concrete patio for instance.
Prior to our final fall clean-up, wet leaves had stood long enough on our concrete-clad patio to produce a series of leaf imprints. Clean+istry believes that [...]
While shopping (you remember how to do that, don’t you?) for Thanksgiving, keep these 5 essential cleaning items for the holidays close by. Yes, we can all pick up an extra bottle of liquid dish washing detergent, but some things can slip our minds.
First, have tons of extra kitchen towels on hand. The Organic Flour [...]
Hmmm, it’s Thursday, so here’s an idea…let’s blog The New York Times Home & Garden. We’ve trolled today’s paper and found a couple of maintenance-related items of interest.
First off is a conversation with contractor Stephen Fanuka (Shopping for Renovation Materials With Stephen Fanuka) about materials used in high-end Manhattan jobs. He makes an excellent point [...]
B_E_E_ (stands for Beauty Engineered for Ever) is a New Zealand based company committed to developing cleaning products that not only clean well, but excel “environmentally, ethically, and sensually.” Who could argue with that?
We like the packaging. Correction: we LOVE the packaging. For some time, Clean+istry has labeled all of our [...]
Get rid of grass stains and control dish clutter with the help of SimpleHuman (makers of stainless steel trash cans and the like).
We were drawn to the visual, but the highly natural-looking grass stain removal tip looks pretty interesting. So, we’re reprinting it here:
First, lightly brush off any remaining grass fibers or dirt.
Mix paste: [...]