At a time when environmental consciousness has penetrated the population, more and more people are wondering how to have a fun, environmentally responsible holiday season. This book tells the reader how to enjoy the Christmas season - and leave a small carbon footprint.
Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management is both an entertaining curiosity and an important social document, providing an invaluable insight into the day-to-day workings of a Victorian household.
This is the fifth of six parts of a facsimile reprint of a compendium of cookery, gardening, animal husbandry and general household medicine which was published in two volumes in about 1760, having first been offered to the public in 41 weekly parts in 1756.
This volume shows readers how to make their living space a harmonious environment in order to create the time and space needed to fulfil real potential. It includes the use of Feng Shui, wind chimes, mirrors and crystals to divert negative energy and enhance postive influences.
This book offers safe and effective alternatives for cleaning agents, spot removal and general cleaning around the home in an A-Z format. Find out how vinegar removes chocolate stains with ease, how common salt will lift red wine from carpets and how baking soda will tackle grease and oil.
Offers a step-by-step, room-by-room program that helps you break out of the pack-rat mind-set, visualize your dream home, and organize various aspects of your life.
Part of the Little Green Book series, this work contains 250 tips on such topics as utilities (water, electricity, etc), insulation, lighting, appliances, home entertainment, waste and home decorating. It covers topics ranging from setting up your own recycling system and reducing room pollution to making the most of your windows.
Contain tips on everything from decluttering to dry cleaning, storage solutions to spring cleaning, dinner parties to brunches. This guide includes lessons on various aspects of home making from cleaning to ironing to washing to tidying as well as top tips on entertaining.
Provides answers for those who want a clean house but doesn't have the time to spend hours with cloth and duster in hand. This book shows how in just 15 minutes a day their sure-fire systems and ingenious methods are all you need to achieve a spotless house without the hard work.
Provides encylcopediac answers to various kinds of domestic disasters - from how to repair scratches to solving stains and other disfigurements. This is an useful book for the kitchen bookshelf, each chapter addresses the stains, cleaning and household problems that may come about in each room of the house.