Home Comforts

The Art and Science of Keeping House

Cheryl Mendelson

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Simon & Schuster
17 May 2005

Reference; DIY: house maintenance manuals

A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. ""Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food."" --USA TODAY

Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table--this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes.

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, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.

By: Cheryl Mendelson
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 168mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 885g
ISBN: 9780743272865
ISBN 10: 0743272862
Pages: 896
Publication Date: 17 May 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cheryl Mendelson is a Harvard Law School graduate, a sometime philosophy professor, a novelist (Morningside Heights and Love, Work, Children), and a homemaker by choice. Born into a rural family in Greene County, Pennsylvania, she now lives in New York City with her husband and son

Reviews for Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

There's only one book to own if you want to be serious about your housekeeping: Cheryl Mendelson's magesterial HOME COMFORTS. --Dwight Garner The New York Times