Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

Cheryl Mendelson

ISBN 10: 068481465X / ISBN 13: 9780684814650

Edité par Scribner, 1999

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G068481465XI5N00

Synopsis :

Book by Cheryl Mendelson

Présentation de l'éditeur: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Home Comforts: The Art and Science of ...
Éditeur : Scribner
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : Hardcover
Illustrateur : Harry Bates
Etat : Fair
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket