How to Properly Care for Tile Floors
Your tile floors take a lot of abuse. Without the right maintenance, it is easy for them to wind up dingy and detract from your home’s appearance. Use these tips make sure your flooring stays beautiful and will continue to last for years to come.
Tips for Reducing In-Home Air Pollution
You expect your home to be a relaxing respite from the stress of the day. You also want it to be the last place in the world where you and your family have to worry about staying healthy. One key to ensuring that your interiors are good for your body is to cut down on […]
How to Maintain Your Wood Floors
Whether your home’s wood floors are solid or engineered hardwood or made of bamboo or maple, they add natural beauty and upscale appeal to your interiors. They can continue to look good for decades and even add value when you sell your property but only if you keep maintaining them properly.
Why You Shouldn’t Wear Shoes in Your Home
Imagine dropping your gum on the grocery store bathroom floor. You’d throw it out immediately. Flushing toilets send up a fine mist, then along comes the janitor’s mop to spread the results around the rest of the floor along with (maybe) sanitizing chemicals. Plus, many shoes have probably walked across that floor since its last […]
Cleaning Up After the Holidays
Once the holidays are over, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about taking down the decorations for storage and returning your home to its pre-holiday order. But the sooner you do it, the better you will feel. These tips will help you tidy up the seasonal mess without stressing you out.
3 Reasons You Should Start Green Cleaning Your Home
Traditional cleaning products have been in use for years, so what’s the big deal? Is eco-friendly house cleaning all it’s cracked up to be? Though different techniques work for everyone, more and more experts are starting to agree that green cleaning is the method of choice whenever possible. Here’s why.
5 Common Mistakes People Make When Cleaning Their Floors
Most people think they know how to clean the floors of their homes the right way, but they often make mistakes which can leave the floors less than clean and may cause damage. You can save money with DIY floor cleaning, but only if you do it correctly. Here are five tips to help keep your floors sparkling:
Getting Your Home Ready for the Holidays
It may be hard to believe, but the holidays are just around the corner. Before you know it, you will be rushing to stuff the turkey and trying to find time to finish your last-minute holiday shopping. So, the last thing you want to worry about is whether your home is clean and ready for […]
Your Part in Keeping Your Carpet Clean
Walking into a room with a fresh, clean carpet is one of the best feelings in the world. Keeping your carpet clean is pretty simple as long as you keep up with it. To ensure it stays clean and fresh-looking, you’ll want to get help from professional carpet cleaners that know how to properly handle […]
Cleaning Tips to Keep You and Your Family Healthy
Are you sick and tired of cleaning your home? Well, unfortunately, if you don’t clean your home well enough, you can have a difficult time keeping your family and yourself healthy. Every year, thousands of people get sick from the bacteria in their own homes. But with proper cleaning, you can help to reduce many of the illnesses […]
The Dirtiest Places in Your Home (and Why)!
No one wants their family to live in a dirty home, but are you neglecting your home’s dirtiest parts? You may think that the most germs are on your toilet seat, but you are wrong. According to Dr. Chuck Gerba, a professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, a toilet seat is one item in your home which is extremely unlikely to make you […]
Tips on Maintaining Leather Furniture
Art Van and other furniture stores have been boasting tent sales, anniversary sales, best-of-the-summer sales, just-because-we-want-to sales, and so many other sales all summer long here in Metro Detroit. Okay, so we made some of those up, but you get the point. Furniture stores are always offering great deals on furniture. But once you leave […]
How to Clean Your Cleaning Supplies
Keeping to a rigorous cleaning schedule doesn’t mean a thing if the tools you are using are dirty. Learn how to keep three of your most common supplies spotless with these tips.
You Can’t Sweep This One Under the Rug
Most of us don’t enjoy doing household chores, but we realize that this is a necessary part of life in order to maintain a clean home. Of course, we each have some tasks that we enjoy more than others, so it can be helpful to divide up the household duties with your spouse or partner. […]
Make Your Carpet Last Longer
It is inevitable, your carpet will get dirty regardless of what you do. What you can do is make sure that when your carpet does get dirty you care for them and prevent any damage. When you do not care for your carpet properly its lifespan shortens significantly, but if you follow the tips our […]
The Right Way to Protect Your Leather Furniture
Leather furniture gives your home an elegant, classic appearance that can look truly stunning. However, it does require a bit of work to keep your leather looking its best over the years, and that includes cleaning and protecting it. Here’s how to do it properly so that you can continue to enjoy your leather furniture […]
Places in Your Home You Don’t Clean But Should
Cleaning isn’t something that many people look forward to, but it’s something that has to be done. After all, who wants to spend their weekend or a few hours after a long workday cleaning their home? Your time is precious, but you make time for chores anyway. Unfortunately, even after spending hours scrubbing the floors, […]
Household Cleaning Hacks You Should Know
Warm weather means it’s time to get outside and enjoy the sunshine, not spend all of your time on household cleaning. The good news is, there are ways to save time, effort and money and still have a clean home. From cleaning the ceiling fans to the baseboards, the following cleaning hacks will help you […]