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.
"Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food."
--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 stains--this
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.
