| Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home | 
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Category: Book
Author: Martha Stewart
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Studio: Clarkson Potter
Brand: Martha Stewart
Label: Clarkson Potter
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 752
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.5 x 2.2
MPN: 4055
ISBN: 0517577003
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
EAN: 9780517577004
ASIN: 0517577003
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
Release Date: October 31, 2006
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Product Description
Whether your home is small or large, an apartment in the city or a country cottage, it is a space that should be at once beautiful and livable. The key to that is managing the upkeep without feeling flustered. Until now, there has never been a comprehensive resource that not only tells how to care for your home and everything in it, but that also simplifies the process by explaining just when. With secrets from Martha Stewart for accomplishing the most challenging homekeeping tasks with ease, this detailed and comprehensive book is the only one you will need to help you keep your home looking its best, floor to ceiling, room by room.
In Martha Stewart?s Homekeeping Handbook, Martha shares her unparalleled expertise in home maintenance and care. Readable and practical?and graced with charts, sidebars, illustrated techniques, and personal
anecdotes from Martha?s decades of experience caring for her homes?this is far more than just a compendium of ways to keep your house clean. It covers everything from properly executing a living room floor plan to setting a formal table; from choosing HEPA filters to sealing soapstone countertops; from organizing your home office to polishing your silver and caring for family heirlooms.
Martha Stewart?s Homekeeping Handbook is organized for clarity and maximum practicality:
Room by Room covers the upkeep of the appliances, tools, furnishings, and surfaces found in each room, from the entryway to the kitchen, from the attic to the laundry room.
Throughout the House instructs the reader on the proper ways to routinely clean and periodically maintain everything in the home, including dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, polishing, scrubbing, waxing and much more.
Comfort and Safety focuses on techniques to ensure your home is running properly and safely, such as recognizing when to clean vents, fixing a leaky faucet, and eradicating pests.
A-to-Z Materials Guide provides an invaluable resource that explains the unusual materials that many favorite objects are made of?from abalone to zinc?
and how to care for them so they last.
Encyclopedic yet friendly, Martha Stewart?s Homekeeping Handbook is a seminal work?a must-have for everyone who wants a well-cared-for home that will endure for generations.
Amazon.com Review
Martha Stewart's new home reference book is a must-have for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it's gorgeous. Printed on thick, glossy pages covered with subtle sepia photos and that perfect Martha-blue as an accent color, Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook is a pretty and practical package for everyone: "all mothers and daughters, fathers and sons who have a room, an apartment, or a home to care for." Stewart's exhaustive handbook features a handy "how to use this book" introduction; a room by room guide with weekly, monthly, and seasonal checklists; tips for cleaning, creating a comfortable and safe home, and moving; and a guide for identifying and caring for materials in your home. Curious? Take a look at some excerpts below. You'll be sweeping and shelving your way to a happier home in no time. --Daphne Durham
How to Use This Book: An Excerpt
 When the first issue of Martha Stewart Living was published in 1990, I could not have begun to anticipate how wide-ranging our readers' homekeeping concerns would be. Since then, we have discovered new solutions to age-old problems, brought in experts to advise us on very specific questions about very specific?c concerns, and experimented with all the new (and not so new) home-care products. Over the years, I've brought these lessons home with me, too, which has made me more organized and made my homes better cared for and maintained.
Households are busy places, works in progress where there is always something needing immediate attention and always something more that can be done. With that in mind, I have organized this book to address the tasks at hand and also to address the "more that can be done" for when you have the time and the inclination go beyond the essentials.
It starts with the big picture--an examination of every room and everything you will find within each. The eleven chapters in the "Room by Room" section take you on a tour through the house, focusing on the surfaces and furnishings you might find in any room, and offering strategies for their care and maintenance. Starting with the kitchen, the central staging area in any home, these chapters open with practical space-planning advice, followed by the golden rules of organizing. This information is intended to help contain your belongings and make each room clutter-free and functional. Relevant homekeeping concerns particular to each room are explored in depth--so stain-removal basics appear in "Laundry Room," the best way to clean grout in "Bathroom," and easy sewing repairs in "Utility Spaces." The equipment essential to each room is also addressed, so if you are considering what kind of bathtub to install during a bathroom renovation or whether a gas or electric range would best suit your style of cooking, you will have the information necessary to make such an investment with confidence.
Organize Your Kitchen: Martha's Golden Rules
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| Customer Reviews: Read 157 more reviews...
 Everything is in this book May 3, 2009
Martha covers everything you could think of. It is a bit overkill but still has anything you would want to know and a lot of stuff you have never thought about when it comes to house cleaning.
Grab this book and learn April 16, 2009
I am an avid fan of Martha Stewart and I congratulate her for the new useful book she authored. The book seems too heavy but well it is full of great and helpful ideas that everyone can make use of especially in their journey on taking care of their household.
However, if you wish to have a quick and handy reference guide as you clean the entire house, this book isn't suitable for you. But still I hope everyone will acquire this especially those couple or family who have just moved to their new house. I hope you grab this book and learn some more. I also suggest this book to the newly weds out there.
Another good thing about Martha Stewart's book is that, it completely enumerate the essential steps you have to follow when cleaning or tidying your closet, bedroom, garage, kitchen, dining's etc.
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 Now I am a believer. March 23, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great reference book. You can read a chapter at a time or skip around the book. This book surprised me with so much practical information. I refer to it often. I am trying to get organize and it has been a great help. I also got some great decorating tips from this book.
Love this Book March 20, 2009
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Martha's Homekeeping manual covers it all.. The only sad thing about it is not having gotten it earlier.. Grab one you wont regret..
Good cleaning guide February 14, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have owned this book for about a month and have found it useful as a cleaning guide. Pluses: she recommends non-toxic cleaning solutions, which you can make at home using vinegar, baking soda, and dish soap; the book is classy, with nice pictures, which makes it an attractive gift; it contains a wealth of information, and I know I will refer to it often over the years; the materials guide is useful, since I am often concerned that I am using the wrong cleaners on sensitive surfaces like tile and chrome. It is surprisingly "green" in orientation and doesn't simply recommend brand-name products; I like her little tips on things like how to fold a sweater.
Minuses: I wouldn't use this book as a general DIY manual. Her instructions for re-caulking a bathtub, for example, are deceptively simple and leave out important steps (like taping to insure a clean line). I didn't have enough instructions to carry this out properly and ended up making a very ugly, amateur-looking fix.
The book often seems directed at a wealthy audience--who else would have room for a designated "gift-wrapping station" in their house?
I think this would be a good wedding gift for a couple who are concerned about cleaning things properly.
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