Posts from Homekeeping

If you share a space, then you've no doubt faced the battle of the chores! Keeping up a home is hard and when multiple people are involved, and figuring out who is responsible for what can get confusing. If you've outgrown the camp-style chore chart, consider these three strategies for divvying up the duties fairly.

Keep the house clean with display-worthy supplies you'll be jazzed to use every time. Well, perhaps not jazzed, but certainly a bit more chipper about the tasks at hand...

Miles & Antena's Laid Back Coastal Home

Homes are our personal havens. But when we have things in our homes that can make us sick, we're definitely not as happy there as we could be. Here are some common ways your home might be making you less than comfortable —and what you can do to change that.

Whether you're working to get stains out of an old, neglected marble mantlepiece, or rust stains out of a newer marble shower, the method remains the same.

Budgeting is one my least favorite subjects. One, because I am one of those right brained people who avoids math and numbers at all costs and two, because I was never taught how to make a proper and realistic budget.

After months of driving home from work on dark, winding country roads, brights a'blazin', I realized that on one particular turn, my headlights shine right into a little farmhouse. I felt so terrible! Not only do these nice people put up with an appalling lack of internet and Indian restaurants, they've got some city slicker shining her brights in their window every night.

If you're going to devote a bunch of time to Cures, cleaning, clearing clutter, and reorganizing, you might as well be entertained, right? Here are a dozen ways to make time fly, whether you're scrubbing, sorting, or elliptical-ing...

If you're an enthusiastic cook and rambunctious baker, you can never have enough pantry space. Here are 10 ways to make the most of the pantry- or cupboard- space that you do have...

Katie & Matt's Washington Heights Home

If you've ever cleaned out your closet, you may know the guilt and shame of finding some past purchase hanging there, accusingly, tags still on. Or maybe there's something that you've only worn once, or used once, and then you decided it wasn't quite right, but you've never been able to get rid of it because you paid good money for it and what would your mother say? I've been there, plenty of times, and after making lots of mistakes and spending lots of money I shouldn't, I've developed a sort of shopping mantra that has helped me, a lot, in only buying things I will actually use.