This past week Clean+istry was in Los Angeles, visiting the home of a very smart, stylish and clean friend, where we were introduced to the Tibet Almond Stick.
Furniture gets scratched, even highly valued mid-century modern pieces in the hands of responsible stewards. Our friend demonstrated the Tibet Almond Stick in treating such an infraction. Here’s [...]
Very nice road testing for outdoor fabrics in last week’s NYT Home & Garden.
20 swatches tested in all. ’tis the season.
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This week on “housekeeping” day we returned from our job to greet a sparkling kitchen and several black marks of unknown origin on the wall next to our bed. We believed them to be the handiwork of the vacuum’s soft brush plastic surround because upon closer inspection the offending instrument had left several small, mark-hugging [...]
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 [...]
Take the Sierra Club’s home health quiz.
It’s a little simplistic, but awareness-building nevertheless. At sierraclubgreenhome.com.
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cleaning air indoors
earth day guilt trip
it all comes back to cleaning
shoes off signs, #6 (and links to 1-5)
shoes off, please
For advice on cleaning air indoors, read clearing the air in a piece that we missed a week ago in NYT’s Home Section.
Good overview.
Most interesting tidbit: To the dismay of ficus trees everywhere, indoor plants don’t do much for cleaning indoor air.
The New York Times roadtests window cleaners in an article from last Thursday’s Home Section.
Of course most of what you’ll find in the article has been covered here on Clean+istry first (no snark intended, just honest), HOWEVER we have taken note of Stoner Invisible Glass Premium Glass Cleaner for soapy/hard water bathroom buildup.
One window washing [...]
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. [...]
Where there is a tangled mess of cords on the floor there is dust. And dust balls. And cat hair. And that’s when Clean+istry questions whether technology has been worth the trouble after all. Never one to encourage “function” to wag the “design” tail, the poster child for BLKYNDESIGNS in Brooklyn’s Dumbo this past [...]
As a child, Clean+istry was frequently given the thankless task of dusting furniture legs on Wednesday (our mother’s official dusting day) and that, in short, is how we became a confirmed “Leg Man”.
Our elder sister, with a loftier pecking position, grabbed surface tops (tables and the like), the flashier of dusting assignments. Left with the [...]