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Deep cleaning your kitchen for a fresh start to the New Year is not for wimps. You must be absolutely detached and ruthless, the focus on one thing - a clean, well thought out kitchen and pantry. Think of clutter as the enemy and you as the hero or heroine of your precious time and […]

The beauty of Christmas, with its perfectly wrapped and coiffed tissue paper filled gift bags, is fading into last year’s memory, leaving you with the clean up. While having a pre-planned organizing system like a solid wood bookcase, shelving unit, armoire, cedar chest or trunk really expedites the clean-up, realize you should not even attempt […]

H olding a small tree or a branch the hooded belsnickle looks stern and judgmental as he travels from home to home for Christmas visitations. The symbolic Saint Nicholas figure known as a Belsnickle was known to leave a naughty child a whipping switch, very unlike the Santa Claus we have come to know and […]

 While winter 2008 is leaving all the global warming advocates a bit speechless homeowners are concerned about the unusual snowfalls and other bizarre weather conditions causing damage to their valued hardwood floors. While wisely protecting our investment in heirloom quality hard wood furniture is obvious, sometimes we take for granted the durability of our hardwood […]

The simple integrity of an Amish furniture craftsman is extended into how the Amish celebrate Christmas. Focusing on the reason for the season as much as they focus on the reason for a piece of home furnishing keeps their Christmas celebration spotlight first on the birth of the Christian Messiah and secondly on family and friends. […]