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How Clean Is Your House? Hundreds of Handy Tips to Make Your Home Sparkle
by Kim Woodburn, Aggie MacKenzie
The international bestseller How Clean Is Your House? is a new kind of cleaning book-full-color, hilarious, and fun. Packed with trade secrets and inventive cleaning solutions, it goes through the house room by room, offering do's and don'ts, step-by-step

Dirt Detective Aggie's Most Unwanted Grime File
How Clean Is Your House? Hundreds of Handy Tips to Make Your Home Sparkle
by Kim Woodburn, Aggie MacKenzie
Modern, warm, humid homes provide ideal conditions for dust mites. They especially love living in our beds, which are warm and moist. They feed on flakes of human skin- of we each shed about 1 gram every day. They go to the toilet often and their feces

How Did We Get Here?
Scaling Down: Living Large in a Smaller Space
by Judi Culbertson, Marj Decker
When Mother Teresa died, the media reported that she left behind only a bed, a chair, and a blue sweater. Your reaction is (a) How wonderful to be so focused, to have only what you need and nothing more! (b) That's all well and good, but I could never

How to Overcome Housekeeping Hysteria One Task at a Time
The Accidental Housewife
by Julie Edelman
It seems like OH-MY-GOD-liness would probably be a more accurate statement. After all, cleaning brings us into a world filled with ungodly and varying amounts of dust, dirt, and doo-doo. Surely not the world we dreamed of when we imagined life as an adult

The Art of Homekeeping
Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping: Timeless Wisdom and Practical Advice
by Miriam Willingham Lukken, M.Ed.
A delightful and practical compendium of homespun advice, cleaning and etiquette tips, traditional recipes, and Southern wit, this book will bring warmth, gentility, and order into your home. Today many of us yearn for the home-centered values

Is Your Home Healthy?
Apartment Therapy
by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
In the first few years that I took on clients, I was surprised by the number of people who were miserable in their homes. I wondered what was going on to cause so much distress.

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Having duly arranged for the physical necessities of a healthful and comfortable home, we next approach the important subject of beauty in reference to the decoration of houses. For while the aesthetic element must be subordinate to the requirement

Smart Tools
The Accidental Housewife
by Julie Edelman
This has a few meanings. The first is being smart about buying tools that will help you do any of your cleaning tasks easily and with little toll on your body. These smart tools include all the disposable wd we dreamed of when we imagined life as an adult

Girls and Women
by Harriet E. Paine
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. That is, it is the family which makes the home, and this is even truer of the mother and her daughters than of the father and his sons.

Chapter One
Do-It-Yourself Family
by Eric Stromer
I have often thought of family life as a great unwinnable battle, complete with strategies, battle plans, troop movements, victories, and of course, occasional total and complete failure and humiliation.

So what was the problem?
Apartment Therapy
by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
Whichever type you identify with, the cure is balance. Whether warm or cool, you never want to change your basic temperament. It is who you are and it contains your strengths.

What Is Rightsizing?
Rightsizing Your Life: Simplifying Your Surroundings While Keeping What Matters Most
by Ciji Ware
Whether it's going from the multi-bedroom suburban house to the city condo, or from a country and city house to one cozy cottage, millions of Americans in the coming years will face the task of planning a shift to smaller or more practical quarters

The Humble Makings of an Interior Designer
Furnishing Forward: A Practical Guide to Furnishing for a Lifetime
by Sheila Bridges
Furnishing Forward guides the reader through finding a personal style, establishing a realistic budget, and working with color. It covers many basic issues of decorating, such as finding the right balance amoung sofas and other upholstered furniture

Where perfection goes, nonsense is sure to follow
Rescue from Domestic Perfection: The Not-So Secrets of Balancing Life and Style
by Dan Ho
I'm hardly a statistician, nor does this book purport to present the results of some major study on useless junk as it exists in America's homes. Still, I'm willing to bet that the average person reading this book or one who has ventured into the aisle

Vision
Joan Kohn's It's Your Kitchen: Over 100 Inspirational Kitchens
by Joan Kohn
Hardwood floors or linoleum? Marble countertops or formica? When designing or renovating a kitchen, there are a million choices, and each one must reflect personal taste, lifestyle, and budget. Now, Joan Kohn offers advice to help readers get the kitchen

Kitchen Purge
The Itty Bitty Kitchen Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Setting Up and Cooking in the Most Ridiculously Small Kitchen in the World - Your Own
by Justin Spring
If your cluttered small kitchen makes you dread cooking even the simplest meal, it's time for you to reclaim that space - and your sanity! - with this practical and witty guide. Here you will learn how to: purge your kitchen of unnecessary, space-hogging