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Casa Quickie: Herbal Carpet Cleaning
If your house is smelling a little stale due to dry Winter air, try this tip. To make your whole house smell amazing, sprinkle dried lavender on your carpet before vacuuming. When you vacuum your carpets, the lavender scent will spread throughout your entire home.
In the News: Rammed Earth Construction Gets Updated
From adobe to cob masonry, people all over the world have built with earthen materials to create their homes. Now, one form of earth building — rammed earth — has been given a technological update. In the San Francisco Chronicle article "Sonoma Couple's House Shows Mexican influence," husband and wife Bruce Needleman and Edna Hayes recount the process of building their beautiful earthen home.
Recipe For Clean: Furniture Polish
Have you assembled your home cleaning kit yet? If you have, you're in luck, because I have a great Recipe For Clean for furniture polish. Use it to get your home so fresh and so clean.
Round-up: Natural Air Fresheners For Your Home
Got a stinky smell in your home? You might want to pause before turning to that can of synthetic air freshener.
Did you know that most synthetic air fresheners — such as Lysol — do little to nothing to freshen the air?
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Crave Worthy: Brenda Houston's Agate Wood Root Table
I just got a sneak peek of some new lamps, tables, and jewelry that Texas-based designer Brenda Houston is debuting at the Architectural Digest Home Show, which kicks off today in New York — the words crave worthy don't even begin to describe her work! I'm completely head over heels in love with her natural wood root tables topped with slabs of polished agate. They're perfect parts organic, raw, and indulgent.
Nice and New: Jonathan Adler Zodiac Pillows
I love the kitschy elegance of Jonathan Adler's "granny gone wild" needlepoint, and I can't resist horoscopes. Needless to say, I need to get my hands on Adler's latest needlepoint pillow offerings.
The 12 varieties of velvet-backed Zodiac pillows ($98 each) feature wool needlepoint designs in fabulous '70s shades.
Casa Beta: Mother's Lil' Helper
Stains, you've met your match. Few people know more about pesky blots than moms. When red wine ends up on your carpet, who do you call for advice?
Casa Quickie: No Naturale
Although in general I recommend choosing natural products over synthetic ones, I do have (at least) one exception. When it comes to the bristled brushes you use for painting your home and furniture, synthetic bristles tends to hold latex-based paints better, applying the paint more smoothly and evenly than natural bristles. I'd long heard this was true, but recently when I was painting my living room, I did indeed find that my two-for-$5 bag of synthetic brushes worked much more nicely than my pricier natural-bristled brushes.
Method Debuts New Line of Laundry Detergent
One of my favorite green (and local) companies, Method, has just debuted a new line of laundry detergents. Available in Fresh Air, Peony Blossom, and Free + Clear scents, the detergent's ultraconcentrated formula allows for a much smaller container, 50 percent of it being from recycled plastic. The detergent is made using 95 percent natural and renewable ingredients and is biodegradable and nontoxic.
Casa Verde: The Andrea Air Purifier
Are you concerned about the indoor air quality in your home? If not, maybe you should be: harmful toxins in the air within the home, including ammonia and formaldehyde, are commonly found in carpeting, cleaning products, paints, and wallcoverings. One way to combat these toxins is with an air purifier.
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