Home Comforts
The Art & Science of Keeping House
By Cheryl Mendelson
"Home Comforts" was published by Scribner in 2005 - New York, USA, it has 884 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Home Comforts” Metadata:
- Title: Home Comforts
- Author: Cheryl Mendelson
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 884
- Publisher: Scribner
- Publish Date: 2005
- Publish Location: New York, USA
“Home Comforts” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ house & home - decorating & furnishings - Maintenance & Repair - cleaning & caretaking - Home economics - food - cloth - cleanliness - materials - daily life - sleep - safe shelter - Home Cooking - breakfast - lunch - dinner - beverages - meals - kitchen culture - safe food - fabric - natural fibers - Man-Made Fibers - Care Labels - laundry - Ironing - linens - stains - air - dust - dust mites - Vacuuming - Sweeping - Dusting - ceramic tile - stone - bathrooms - pipes - drains - Walls - Ceilings - Woodwork - Windows - china - crystal - metals - jewelry - fireplaces - sewing - books - music - Images - Recordings - home offices - computers - pets - beds - bedding - closets - clothes - fire - electrical safety - slips and falls - safety - Poisons - Hazardous Substances
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Paperback
- Pagination: x, 884 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- Google Books ID: xfB99Kf38MwC
- The Open Library ID: OL3435885M - OL5736885W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 60192320
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2005279528 - 99037555
- ISBN-13: 9780743272865
- ISBN-10: 0743272862
- All ISBNs: 0743272862 - 9780743272865
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Snippets and Summary:
When you keep house, you use your head, your heart, and your hands together to create a home--the place where you live the most important parts of your private life.
"Home Comforts" Description:
The Open Library:
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. --back cover
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