Het matras is misschien wel een van de meest vervuilde plekken in een woning. We zien de vervuiling misschien niet, maar het is er wel! Eigenlijk ook niet zo vreemd als je er even stil bij staat.
Uw meubels kunnem meestal nog wel jaren mee. Ook wanneer u er zelf al op uitgekeken bent. Soms is een opfrisbeurt van uw textiele meubel bekledeing al voldoende om er weer jaren van te genieten. Bij zo´n opfrisbeurt wordt de vervuiling uit de bekleding verwijderd en komen de kleuren weer tot leven. Het ziet er niet alleen frisser uit, maar je ervaart de frisheid ook direct.
“I am still learning about my home. If you can’t do it yourself, find good service people and treat them well.” — Terry (mom to our Human Resources Coordinator, Louisa)
Raise your hand if you grew up with a mom (or another parental figure) constantly reminding you to clean your room. Often, our earliest memories of figuring out how to tidy up and take care of our homes are with our moms—they taught us how to do laundry, how to do the dishes, and how to make our beds. So it should come as no surprise that when we asked our moms for their best homekeeping advice, they came back with some great tips.
Most agreed on a few major themes: it’s important to make sure everything has a home, that you put things back when you take them out, and that your home is an inviting, relaxing place to come home to—and invite others to.
Do you ever casually go about your day, popping into the kitchen for a little peanut butter toast and then the next thing you know you’re turning over the toaster oven because it’s been so long and you just can’t take the crumbs anymore?
At the risk of sounding like a cloyingly optimistic Peppy Patty (which I can assure you, I am not), I never really understood all the pervasive hate for Mondays. I get that easing yourself from the freedom of the weekend into the structure of the workweek is a bit of a shock to the system…
Our spring cleaning journey has been about turning over some lesser-cleaned leaves and your space to brand new for the season ahead. So in many ways, today’s assignment is symbolic of the whole shebang. We’re going to be flipping and turning, revealing a fresh new face for some of the most-used…
