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Embracing Your Inner Clean Freak

Laure posted about the virtues of embracing your inner slob, and many of you chimed in with your experiences of not always being able to keep a perfect house. While some might be embarrassed about ce...

The Secret To Stress Free Entertaining

Now that Halloween is over and the time has changed we're settling nicely into Fall and looking forward to a bunch of entertaining from now until the end of the year. This weekend we stumbled on our ...

The Benefits of Leaving Your Shoes At The Door

We realized recently that we have to wash the small rugs around our house quite frequently. It's not because we're obsessed with clean rugs--they just get dirty really fast. We're starting to think...

8 Ways To Get Your Home Ready For Fall

Since the seasons have turned, consider getting your home ready for Fall and getting inspired for Apartment Therapy's 2009 Room For Color contest that is starting today! Check out 8 ways to welcome in...

Chore Charts and the Equitable Household

In just about every shared household, whether boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, boyfriend/boyfriend, girlfriend/girlfriend, or with roommates, there is usually a discrepancy between one person's pre...

How To: Restore an Eames Swivel Chair in 3 Minutes

click for step by step Apartment Therapy reader hoxha emailed us this step-by-step instructional of how they were able to revive an original vintage Eames Swivel chair themselves after being quoted $5...

Inspiration: An Empty Room

We briefly mentioned earlier today that we repainted our kitchen and bathroom this week. After we were done painting the kitchen, we noticed of a couple things to consider when you're looking to rear...

Cleaning House While the Other Is Away

This morning I dropped off Emily at the airport so she could begin her sojourn across the Atlantic back to merry ole London, a city she once passionetly called home years ago to visit family and to la...

How To: Clean Patio Furniture

It's supposed to be a beautiful weekend here in LA and we're gonna be diving into outdoor month in June so we thought it was a good time to dust off this post on cleaning patio furniture to inspire yo...

Unwanted Visitor: The Dust Bunny

We like to think of our house as clean. We vacuum once a week, we dust daily, we take off our shoes when we come in the door. But then we do a dry mop and there they are, living under the bed, the d...

Look! Murchison-Hume Cleaning Products
Melbourne

What do you get when you cross a woman from LA and a man from Australia? Firstly, you get 2 little boys who piddle all over the bathroom which then inspires the husband and wife team to create Austral...

Good Questions: How Do I Clean Old Linoleum
Los Angeles

Dear Apartment Therapy, I'm in the process of moving to a new apartment. The whole place had beautiful wood flooring except for the bedroom. I got the OK from the building super to tear out the ugly...

What’s the worst thing you’ve spilled?
Melbourne

Despite best efforts to keep your home clean and tidy, accidents happen. We had a semi-spectacular spill last night, after misjudging the hand’s multiple-container-holding capacity the above jar ju...

Making Changes In Your Home
A Schedule for Improvements

So, you've finally decorated your home. That's it, right? Now you can sit back, relax and never buy or do another thing in your home. Hold on. Not so fast. Your home is a constantly changing mirr...

How To: Clean Wallpaper of Fingerprints With...Bread?

Did you know you can clean wallpaper of dirt or fingerprints using plain old slices of bread? Neither did we, since we almost always finish any bread sitting around the house...and we don't happen to ...

How To: Remove Scorch Marks from Furniture

Have a piece of wooden furniture with a cigarette burn marring its finish? There's two solutions that might be able to bring back a more presentable surface, one an old timey tip and the other a store...

Good Questions: Cleaning Stained Bathroom Tiles
Los Angeles

Does anyone know how to get unglazed hex tiles (French bistro style) clean? We recently put them in our bathrooms and they already look scratched up. Here is a photo from the small bathroom where it ...

How To... Remove Bath Tub Stains
...According to the Color of the Stain

We have a good friend who happens to have a bathroom which is renowned to be...how do we put this politely...in dire need of a thorough and drastic cleaning. Most of it is due to the accumulation of m...

The Book Brush by Arik Levy

Even with a heavy duty air purifier and regular vacuuming around the apartment, our book collection can be a pain to clean, gathering dust like a Katamari dustball. The books at the top of our bookshe...

How To: Clean a Chandelier Without Making a Mess
...using an umbrella

You've undoubtedly have brought out your umbrella in the last few weeks with the arrival of fall storms. But did you know you can also use that umbrella inside as a cleaning aid while dusting/spraying...

6 Things To Do This Weekend
So That You're Ready For Thanksiving

Maybe you're hosting Thanksgiving at your place for the 100th time, maybe it's your first time, or maybe you're going out of town or to someone else's house to celebrate. No matter. There are things...

When Cleanliness Levels Collide
Boyfriends, Girlfriends and Roommates

One of our tips for making a space feel bigger is cleaning it (this also helps it to feel cozy and comfortable) but what do you do when you live with someone who's messier than you, or shall we say, h...

Good Questions: How Do I Clean a George Nelson Bubble Lamp?
Los Angeles

Michelle writes in: I just purchased this George Nelson bubble lamp on ebay for not a lot of money. The problem is, it's seems to be filthy. Does anyone know of a way to clean it up or if there is ...

5 Places You Might Forget To Clean

As a part of hunkering down for Fall we like to give our home a deep clean. This way we feel comfortable and at ease settling into the colder months. This normally means the sweeping, mopping, (mayb...

How to: Clean Cheaply
Melbourne

We have a confession– we’re still using store bought cleaning products. We’ve heard all the praises for vinegar and bi-carb soda but until today we hadn’t realised just how much money we’re ...

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