Easy Gardening

Ever wish there was an easier way to maintain your home’s cleanliness? Well there is no magic solution, however cleaning your home little by little on a daily basis seems to help in the maintenance and cleanliness of your home in the long run.  Cleaning your kitchen, bathroom, and living room for a little bit on a daily basis will help increase your overall downtime.  It’s more efficient to set aside a few minutes to clean everyday rather than blocking out an entire day (or days) to clean your home.  For example, once you hop out of the bathtub or shower, rinse around the sides and make sure to pick up any hairs.  Follow these tips from Apartment Therapy and you will be well on your way in improving your home’s cleanliness.
Preventative measures can feel like more work upfront, but in the end this active approach to keeping house means tasks are easier to tackle, resulting in more downtime overall. Here are Read more…

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Melissa & Doug, the company that makes simple and sturdy wooden playthings for children, has a fun way to help youngsters learn to keep track of their appointments. With My Monthly Magnetic Calendar, the magnets are changed and re-arranged to show the year’s various months and days. Each day has room for one of the colorfully illustrated appointment magnets that remind of piano lessons, play dates and more.

The calendar is among the gift ideas featured in the Home & Garden gift guide, and it’s one of two gift options that At Home readers can enter to win.

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Of course your house is fabulous! But when it’s time to sell, your home will be going up against many other fabulous houses all vying for that buyer’s attention. Before asking strangers to pay hundreds of thousands of their hard-earned dollars for your home, now is the time to make some of those simple home improvements to help make your home stand out above the rest.Make your entryway ready for inspection:Scrutinize the perimeter of your home, inspecting it with a careful eye. Clear dead plants from flowerbeds, clip spent blossoms and rake your front yard if necessary.Next, a fresh coat of paint on your front door goes a long way in giving off a great first impression. Loo Read more…

An article has been making the rounds recently about Steelcase designing for the future of work. The company is using the “coworking” concept to bring the feel of entrepreneurial enterprise into corporate spaces. According to Greiner and Grazziano at Steelcase, all signs point to a future where work areas are less closed off and more communal.

In an on-site office space planning experiment, this furniture manufacturer remodeled its own cafeteria and turned it into a space for meeting, eating, and working. It has quickly become a favorite place for employees to get things done. The

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