Home skills : master your domain with practical solutions to everyday challenges

Home skills Master your domain with practical solutions to everyday challenges

Book - 2022

A practical and attractive handbook with more than 200 essential life skills to get anything done faster and easier The editors and scientists at Good Housekeeping and its lab, the Good Housekeeping Institute, share genius solutions and trusted, expert advice in this how-to guide to making life simpler. With chapters on the kitchen, organizing and cleaning, decorating, home maintenance, outdoor living, and entertaining and celebrating, this go-to resource offers step-by-step illustrated instructions, inspiring photos and sometimes surprising but always practical guidance to get things done. Plus, you'll save time and money and even have fun along the way. The 200+ skills include how to - Store and make your own spice mixes - Clean your... house in 15 minutes - Seal a drafty window - Remove water rings from your tables - Perk up a grocery-store bouquet - Sew a button - Plant an outdoor herb garden (and keep herbs fresh after they are picked!) - Make the perfect boiled egg - Uncork champagne - Cure a hangover and so much more! QR codes throughout the pages offer additional lessons and video instruction. Whatever home means to you, this book is brimming with invaluable know-how to keep your home in tip-top shape and to help you inject more fun and flair into your every day.

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Subjects
House cleaning.
Orderliness.
Storage in the home.
Dwellings > Maintenance and repair.
Home economics.
Life skills.
Do-it-yourself work.
Instructional and educational works.
Illustrated works.
Genres
Instructional and educational works
Illustrated works
Published
New York, NY : Hearst Home [2022]
Language
English
Item Description
Statement of responsibility from back cover.
"850 who-knew life tricks!" -- Cover.
Includes index.
Physical Description
221 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781950785209
  • Prep & cook
  • Clean & organize
  • Decorate & renovate
  • Maintain & repair
  • Enjoy the outdoors
  • Entertain & celebrate.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The Good Housekeeping team delivers in this impressive handbook hundreds of ideas and tips for "how to 'home' better." The advice comes in six sections: "Prep & Cook" covers must-have kitchen equipment, pantry stocking tips, and easy recipe substitutions; "Clean & Organize" features a bathroom-tidying checklist and DIY cleaning solution recipes; "Decorate & Renovate" teaches readers how to "brighten" their kitchen and "cozy up" their living room; and "Maintain & Repair" offers tricks for fixing appliances and getting rid of indoor allergens. "Enjoy the Outdoors," meanwhile, takes on yard care and gardening (with a nontoxic weed killer recipe), and "Entertain & Celebrate," considers less-glamorous aspects of party planning: make taking out the garbage during and after easier by lining a trash bin with several bags, the authors advise, and turn the thermostat down before guests arrive, as the crowd will warm things up. The advice on outfitting one's kitchen and building pantry meals is excellent, but it's the extras that set this apart: each chapter includes clever new twists, such as repurposing a shoe rack as a vertical herb planter and using toothpaste to clean silver. This thorough home companion will reward readers over and over. (Mar.)

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