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Decorating
Secrets for Achieving "The Look" When Decorating Your Home
Use a few easy guidelines to develop your artistic eye.
Motivation
Motivational Rituals
Small acts to maximize the pleasure you take in your clean home.
Antiques
Caring for Wood, Silver, Copper and Brass Antiques
Secrets to preserving those antiques, heirlooms and collectibles.
Window Cleaning
Window Cleaning
“I can see clearly now.” And you will, when your windows are sparkling, thanks to a little elbow grease and your proficiency with a squeegee.
Soft Water
Make Household Chores Easier With Softened Water
Use soft water and you'll do less hard scrubbing.

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Cleaning Tips
Keeping Shiny Things Shiny
How to restore that gleam to silver, copper, brass, stainless steel and more.
Organizing Strategies
Get Organized! App for iPhones and iPads
Access the expertise of Peter Walsh in this new app that helps you organize every room in your home step-by-step.
Organizing Products
Storage Solutions - Looking Up
Running out of space in your garage? Consider if an overhead garage storage rack will work for your home.
Storage
Container Clutter
Storage bins meant to contain clutter can actually become clutter if not chosen and used effectively. Use these tips to prevent container clutter.
Spring Cleaning
Survey: Love or hate cleaning?
How much do we really like or dislike cleaning?

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Candles
Candles
They create a warm, cozy atmosphere — and present some hazards as well.
Pergo
Laminate flooring sold in the Presto® and Signature® product lines and manufactured by Pergo AB, Trelleborg, Sweden.
Wax, candle
Successful removal depends on the surface.
Natural ventilation
A scientific term for “airing the place out.”
Ivory
If you have a genuine ivory heirloom, clean it with care. Plastic is easier to maintain and doesn't endanger wildlife.

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Real Simple: Cleaning
Room-by-room strategies for cleaning every room in your home.
Book
Simplify Your Space
Practical steps for organizing the spaces in your home using the C.A.L.M. approach.
Common Sense Organizing
A step-by-step program for helping you take control of your home and your life.
Haley's Cleaning Hints
Over 1,000 clever, inexpensive solutions help readers clean, deodorize, unclutter and organize their homes.
Real Simple Organizing
Organizational help from Real Simple Magazine.

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Bathtub
How To Clean a Ring From Your Bathtub
Save hand-washing houseguests the horror of having to stare at a line of dirt and dead skin ringing the bathtub.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning
In this video series, experts Allen Rathey, president of The Healthy House Institute (HHI), Professor Liz Goldsmith of Florida State University (FSU) and University of Massachusetts lab scientist Heidi Wilcox, explain how to remove tough spots and stains from carpet using green cleaning methods. Different carpet types, prevention, home-made and retail green products, and specific green cleaners and tools that work are covered in depth.