Category Archives: Care and Maintenance

Cleaning Grout

Does your Saturday and Sunday consist of really un “fun” cleaning projects? Cleaning baseboards, vacuuming dust off ceiling fans, and dealing with dog hair. Well, sadly we’re just adding another one to your list. Cleaning your grout. We know, we know….you don’t want to do this, but it is important to keep your tile and [...]

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Organizing Your Home in the New Year

The holidays are over and now it’s back to the daily grind. After the chaos of houseguests, parties and shopping have you overlooked dealing with basic housekeeping and clutter that has accumulated over the past month? Remember everything you shoved into a laundry basket and hid from view? You promised yourself you would deal with [...]

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New Years Resolutions For Your Home

Have you already started making your list of things you’re going to improve in 2012? Get fit/lose weight, Don’t commit to more than you can handle, Prepare healthy and nutritious meals for the children Etc., etc., etc…well, best wishes! While you are making a list we encourage you to make some resolutions for your home as well. [...]

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Snow-It’s That Time of Year!

It’s that time of year. Each morning when you wake up it’s fun to peek outside and see if Mother Nature blessed you with beautiful, sparkly white snow. And though it is gorgeous from inside the house, it also means that you need to get outside and shovel the driveway. Dress in layers before you [...]

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Candle Wax

Sometimes it’s just inevitable. You’ve decorated your home beautifully with candles for the holidays and now you’ve discovered one or two wax spots on your carpet. What should you do now? Relax; it’s not a disaster. Candle wax can be removed if you follow these simple steps. Pick as much wax as you can off [...]

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Grout Grout Grout

You’ve picked out your tile; you know the exact name of the paint color on your walls, your beautiful draperies are on order. But then…..here is the question you didn’t anticipate – what color grout do you want in between those gorgeous ceramic tiles? There are definitely two schools of thought when it comes to [...]

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Area Rugs – How To Care For Them

We all know that area rugs can be a focal point of a room, they can define an area and they add warmth and comfort, but what is the best way to take care of your area rugs? Are there pads you should put underneath? Do they need to be cleaned by professionals? Welcome to [...]

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How To Remove Barbeque Sauce From Carpet

We hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend full of fireworks, friends, family and barbeque!  Just in case some barbequing accidentally got out of hand, we’d like to share some hints on how to properly remove barbeque sauce from your carpet.  We hope you find this information useful!  Solvent – A non-flammable spot removal solution, [...]

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How To Remove Easter Egg Dye From Carpet

Easter is only a few days away!  This year seems to be flying by!  We hope you and your family have some fun plans to color Easter eggs!  We thought we’d provide some helpful cleaning tips on how to remove Easter egg dye from carpet, just in case someone in your family has an accident.  [...]

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How To Remove Chocolate From Carpet

What better excuse to eat chocolate then Valentine’s Day?  We hope that you received plenty of chocolate this year!  Just in case some ended up on the carpet, here are a few tips on how to remove it! Solvent – A non-flammable spot removal solution, or dry cleaning type solvent, is preferred. Exercise caution when [...]

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