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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

Contributors:

Cheryl Mendelson (Author)

Contributors: Cheryl Mendelson (Author)

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A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. "Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food." --USA TODAYHome Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table--this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.
ISBN-10: 0743272862
ISBN-13: 9780743272865
Author: Mendelson, Cheryl
Publisher: Scribner Book Company

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ISBN-13: 9780743272865

ISBN-10: 0743272862

Publish Date: May 17, 2005

On Sale Date: January 1, 0001

Language: English

Pages: 896

Dimensions: 9.1 × 6.6 × 1.7 in

Weight: 2.65 lbs

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