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Papier d'Armenie Room Deodorizer

Creating atmosphere in your home always gets a boost by little rituals. Papier d'Armenie (Armenian paper, in English) provides just such a diversion when said home is in need of deodorizing. ...

Audit Home for Energy Efficiency
SF Chronicle: 04.19.08

Holistic isn't a word we often associate with our home. Yet it makes sense that all of a home's systems -- heating, insulation, ventilation, lighting -- are related to one another. In this weekend's...

SF Good Questions: Suggestions for Bathroom Fans?

Hi AT:SF, I'm looking for a bathroom fan. Nothing special -- no light, no extra features. Just a fan. All I've found are plastic models that look cheap and ugly. The best so far is a paintable f...

How To: Remove Cigarette Odor from Wood Furniture

The other day we happened upon some tips about how to remove cigarette odor from wood furniture. When buying furniture off Craigslist and at flea markets, we've always stayed away from furniture th...

Reminder: Fight Mold! Open Your Windows!

Just a quick reminder -- open your windows! We realized the other day that it was a whole year ago that we were very sick as a result of exposure to mold (see our post here)... ...

Paine's Balsam Fir Incense Sticks

Love the smell of a Christmas tree but don't go in for the tree? We've spent too many years secretly pining away for that Christmas scent to fill our home with a little bit of holiday spirit. Thanks...

Look!: The Holiday Scents of Pomanders

How do the holidays smell in your house? Emily of Emilystyle recently reminded us of the good smells that pomanders bring into the house this time of year....

How To: Create an Inviting Environment

Inviting is the word we'd most like our guests to use about our house. One of our fail safe tricks to achieving this around the holidays is to fill the air with the smells of the season. No toxic pl...

Breathe Charcoal Sachets

Sachets that remove smell without replacing it. On our recent visit to Clover House, the new home accessory store we wrote about on Monday, we spotted these charcoal sachets from Breathe....

Baies Diptyque Candles

We blame a certain relative. She got us completely hooked on Diptyque candles. First it was Muguet, and now it's Baies. But here's the funny thing: We seriously love the scent, but we couldn't qu...

Papier dArmenie Room Deodorizer

Creating atmosphere in your home always gets a boost by little rituals. Papier dArmnie (Armenian paper, in English) provides just such a diversion when said home is in need of deodorizing. ...

How To: Get Rid of Cooking Odors

It's funny -- we were thinking about this the other night, after heating up some soup. The smell completely permeated our tiny abode, even while we had the windows wide open. Although we ended up li...

Orchids

We've known a couple of orchid fanatics over the years -- people who keep entire greenhouses devoted to hundreds of them, and delight in the cross-breeding, all of that. It always seemed so extreme t...

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