Home Comforts e-bog
113,76 DKK
(inkl. moms 142,21 DKK)
The classic bestselling resource for every American household, Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home."e;Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food."e; USA TODAY For the first time in nearly a century, ...
E-bog
113,76 DKK
Forlag
Scribner
Udgivet
4 november 1999
Længde
896 sider
Genrer
DIY: house maintenance manuals
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780743272384
The classic bestselling resource for every American household, Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home."e;Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food."e; USA TODAY For the first time in nearly a century, here is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. Far from a dry how-to manual, nor a collection of odd tips and hints, a history book, or an encyclopedia compiled by a committee or an institute, Home Comforts is a readable guide for both beginners and experts of all the domestic arts. Including 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 germs, watering plants, removing stainsthis guide covers everything that modern 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, home safety and security, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art and science of household management.