by Jocelyn | Nov 18, 2022 | Garden, Holiday
7 Decorative Plants You Need for the Holidays That Aren’t Poinsettias We don’t have anything against poinsettias, in fact, they are one of our favorite plants. Side note: they grow into large bushes and trees in Mexico and Central America. They’ve...
by Jocelyn | Nov 18, 2022 | Cleaning
5 Hacks to Prep Your House for Last-Minute Holiday Guests We all love last-minute guests. Mostly. This time of year you never know who’s going to show up unexpectedly, especially now that we are fully into the new post-Covid normal. Travel and visiting...
by Jocelyn | Nov 18, 2022 | Cleaning, Hardware, Holiday
Most of us are pretty good at keeping the major things in our homes clean – the bathrooms, the floors, the kitchen, our clothes. These are chores that make themselves obvious when we don’t do them. But what about the things we never think to clean? The...
by Jocelyn | Nov 18, 2022 | Cleaning, Electrical, Hardware
We’ve put together five easy yearly checks to make your home safer and more energy efficient. Our winters here in the California Bay Area are pretty mild, but we are home to a lot of houses built 40, 50, 100-plus years ago. Unless your house is brand new, there...
by Jocelyn | Nov 18, 2022 | Cleaning, Garden, Hardware, Painting
When you take the time to prep your outdoor wood furniture for winter, it will live on and look beautiful, year after year. Wood furniture does great outside in the elements, especially here in the mild Bay Area winters, but we still need to protect it. The biggest...