| Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home | 
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Sales Rank: 1934
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
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.
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 Now I make my bed while still in it - save tons on cleaning products too October 24, 2008
Two suggestions alone made my life easier. First, after making my bed using Martha's method, all it takes in the morning is a tug at one side, folding the sheet over the covers, then doing the same on the other (one I get out of), fluffing the pillows and I am done! Second, the vinegar and water solution is truly the best for cleaning laminate floors - no longer any residue build up left by commercial cleaners - and costs just pennies.
Plus the daily, weekly etc. schedules for the various tasks are practical and easily adaptable to personal lifestyles and regional climate needs. Last, but not least, the intro may be longer than is customary, but I strongly suggest reading it first to get a complete picture of Martha's philosophy for this book. I bought this copy as a gift for one of my granddaughters, after she saw my copy and expressed interest in borrowing it. This truly is a homekeeping book for all ages and stages in one's life.
Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Guide September 20, 2008
I've given this book twice as a bridal shower gift. Both girls said it will be their bible. One is now married for a year and has already referred to this book three times for helpful information.
 It's just basic stuff September 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book because somebody suggested it to me while attending a bridal shower. I was a little disappointed. It's just very basic stuff that you can easily find it online by Google it. I have to admit that it is a very nice present for newlyweds.
Everything you need to know September 15, 2008
I bought Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook for my daughter's bridal shower, and though I haven't read it myself, I can say that she is enchanted by it. She even reads it when she meant to be involved in preparations for the wedding. The night we were talking on the phone and she wanted to get back to the section on "five types of kitchen towel weaves" that I realized Martha had a whole lot more advice to give her than I did. We both believe that "a cat can look at a king"--i.e., we don't have to be like Martha in every particular, but we can enjoy watching her at her domestic best, and she inspires us to be a bit more conscious of making a house a genuine home.
The best!! September 15, 2008
After I read The Big Clean: How to Organize Your Pad and Free Your Mind , it inspired me to get more orgazined and cleaner, so who better to go to than Martha S? I got this book and was amazed at its size, and the volume contains just about everything one would need to clean the house. Get this one--it's worth it!!
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