Wicker — How to clean and care for wicker items
Have any wicker in your home? Baskets, tables, indoor furniture or out? Maybe yours is a brand-new purchase, or maybe it’s been around since the seventies — wicker is long-lasting …
How to store Christmas decorations
How do you feel when it’s time to put away your holiday décor? Does it make you a little sad, or are you eager to get everything back to “normal?” …
How to clean a lampshade
Some things look fine — better even — with a little patina on them. Lampshades aren’t one of them. Dusty or stained lampshades look dingy and sad. Yet they’re not …
How to take good care of scissors
I love good scissors! Big shiny shears, tiny thread cutters, embroidery snips that look like storks. I like having just-the-right kind handy, so I currently have scissors in my purse, …
Product warranties and guarantees — What we need to know
“Guarantee” sounds stronger than “warranty,” doesn’t it? (I always thought it was. I mean, we say we “guarantee” we’ll do something, right? We never warranty it.) When it comes to …
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How to take care of a wood cutting board
Cutting boards may just be the hardest-working equipment in my kitchen. I have a large cutting board for rolling out dough, a medium board for chopping most vegetables, a small …
Fall maintenance for your home and yard
There’s a nip in the air, which means it’s time to prepare your home and yard for winter. There’s something so satisfying about taking care of things, indoors and out, …
Keeping a Laundry Hamper Fresh
When’s the last time you washed your laundry hamper? Whether you use it just for dirty clothes and linens or put your clean clothes back in it after folding, cleaning …
How to store leftover paint
Paint has a way of multiplying in our basement. And not in a tidy way. In fact, finding the matching paint to touch up some woodwork or repaint a stool …
Area rugs — How to take care of rugs so they look good and last
Area rugs are terrific at defining and warming up a space. They can dress up a room or calm it down. They can introduce art or color or simply provide …
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