Apartment Therapy: cleaning

Ameno Housekeeping: Cleaning Service

For Spring Cleaning Month, we're going to be posting all the good and recommended cleaning services that we know of. I don't know how we found Ameno Housekeeping, but we've been using them to clean o...

Melaleuca: Eco Cleaning Products

Cleaning that doesn't harm the earth. This tip came from a client who opened her kitchen cabinets up and showed us that she ONLY buys cleaning products from Melaleuca. "Mela what?" We said. "Oh,...

Disaster Masters: Home Crisis Management

Do you want to be your own Disaster Master? We heard about Disaster Masters three years ago and they left an imprint. What are they? Disaster Masters is Ron Alford's New York company that special...

A+ Totally Clean Service

We just heard about A+ through a friend and since a good, word of mouth tip is NY gold, we're blogging her new company asap. Charmaine started A+ Totally Clean Service herself and has been doing a ...

Bottleneck Saver

This is so simple and ingenious! The Bottleneck Saver is a small rubber ring that attaches to the pumps of hand soap and lotion bottles. By restricting the amount of dispensed material, it helps red...

Tubelor Trash Can

The Tubelor two-piece trash can has definitely been making the rounds on the design sites. The design takes advantage of discarded plastic bags and attractively puts them to re-use as small garbage ...

NY Good Questions: Recommendations for a Housekeeper?

Hello AT, My girlfriend and I sold our individual apartments and together bought a 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath apartment. Now we need someone who can help us keep it beautiful. We've tried a few different...

Marie Pi Laundry Hamper by SWID Design

It expands and contracts according to the amount of dirty laundry you have to store. The Marie Pi Laundry Hamper was designed in Germany by SWID Design. It's made of a canvas bag within a flexible w...

NY Good Questions: What Should I Do About This Mold?

Hello AT, I have a question regarding mold. We had the same problem last year. We have come to the conclusion that the mold is due to the sweltering heat from the radiator. Whose responsible for ta...

Iron Boot Scraper at Van Dyke's

A muddy trip upstate today left us thinking of good old-fashioned boot scrapers. Nowdays, they come shaped like turtles or frogs, painted with your family name, or with brush bristles sticking out i...

Spotless Services

Get greenclean in NYC. There are many cleaning companies in town, all with different rates and cultures, but few offer both cleaning, handyman AND painting services with a "green" slant. Spotless Se...

Apple Window Cleaning

Most of our clients don't even notice their windows anymore, and for good reason. They're all dirty. We don't know if it is simply human nature or the fact that New Yorker's enjoy the added privacy ...

Solutions

Products that make life easier? Well, we don't know about that. But that's what Solutions claims to offer. On browsing their products, however, we found mostly space-wasting gimmicks. There are some...

125West.com

A hodge podge of specialty items for the home and garden. That's how we'd best define 125West.com, the online catalog of items that are hard to find in stores. The site is organized by rooms of the h...

Lifestyle Clotheslines

Just like they do it in Venice. Well, maybe not quite. But what a handy web catalog, nonetheless. AT reader Gary tipped us off to Lifestyle Clotheslines.com, an online catalog of clotheslines based in...

Futopia

Thanks to Geraldine, we now know about Futopia. She calls it "the ONLY hip, fun houseware/gift store in Greenpoint,Brooklyn," which is *certainly* a mark of distinction. We are just glad when a cool ...

Saifee Hardware & Garden

Great for the urban gardener. Everyone says a similar thing about this East Village landmark: great selection, wish the prices were lower. It's all true. Saifee is a remarkable hardware and garden...

George: The Window Washer

Old time service still exists in Gotham. George's answering machine says, "Whether or not you want your windows clean...leave a message." Straight ahead with no beating around the bush, George is a...

Sparclean Cleaning Co.: Total Apartment & Office Cleaning

If you are totally neurotic about "clean," you have found heaven. Sparclean, aka Brian Appel, is a one-man operation with a huge amount of energy and an attention to detail that will knock your socks...

Desco Vacuum

Dept. of Suction. If you are looking for a vacuum, make sure you check out Desco before you buy. Their prices are very good and often the lowest you will find and their expertise with vacuums is unp...

Seventh Generation

Keeping the faith. There are a number of really good companies that produce and sell environmentally sound home products, but Seventh Generation is one of the best, offering almost everything you nee...

Petal Soap Company - Brooklyn, NY

For small hands. We've bought Petal Soaps from the owners, Tamara and Julie, for the past two years, but it just occured to us that what distinguishes them (in our mind) is the unique size of all the...

Yu Interiors: Furniture and Home Accessories

Chocolate brown walls and warm style abound. Jumping off the C train at Lafayette Avenue, you will see the distinctive YU sign across from the public park in this trendy little corner of Fort Greene. ...

Gaiam: Cleaning, Home, and Healthy Lifestyle Products

Only a few catalogues get through our door. It is true. Last year we looked at every catalogue and magazine that was filling up our mailbox and cancelled 95% of them by calling the companies directly...

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