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  Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (Paperback) By (author) Cheryl Mendelson

  

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  Short Description for Home ComfortsMendelson addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping with a keen sense of the history and values involved. The result is a warm, good-humored, engagingly written book with a message and a point of view, one that is overflowing with useful reflections and information.
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  • Publisher: Scribner Book Company
  • Published: 05 April 2005
  • Format: Paperback 896 pages
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  • Categories: DIY: House Maintenance Manuals
  • ISBN 13: 9780743272865 ISBN 10: 0743272862
  • Sales rank: 60,426

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Full description for Home Comforts

• The classic bestselling resource for every American home. Choosing fabrics, cleaning china, keeping the piano in tune, making a good fire, folding a fitted sheet, setting the dining room table, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, watering plants, removing stains -- "Home Comforts" addresses the meanings as well as the methods of hands -- on housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. 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, Home safety and security, A summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident liability, contracts, and domestic employees and more in this practical, good-humored, historic, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art of household management.