Good Housekeeping The Complete Household Handbook: The Best Ways to Clean, Maintain & Organize Your Home

by Good Housekeeping (Editor)

For more than 100 years, the professionals at the Good Housekeeping Institute have helped readers keep their homes in top shape. This complete guide offers the Institute's expert advice everything homeowners need to know, from cleaning a floor to fixing a leaky gutter.

The professionals at the Good Housekeeping Institute present practical, easy-to-understand, and simple-to-implement advice on every aspect of maintaining and managing a home. The Institute's directors have researched and tested all the time, money, and energy-saving tricks in the book, from choosing a vacuum to removing wallpaper, from getting rid of stains to keeping your family safe, and much more. Throughout, homeowners will find vital hints and tips, color-coded by category for quick reference, plus checklists, charts, and step-by-step illustrations ranging from the anatomy of a door lock to maintaining a beautiful lawn. A Selection of the Bookspan Book Club.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Self Help

400 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2005

About the author

The Good Housekeeping Institute was created to provide readers of Good Housekeeping magazine with expert consumer advice and delicious, classic and contemporary east-to-follow recipes. These ideals still hold true today. The institute team are all experienced cooks, home economists and consumer researchers. They test the lastest products in purpose-built, modern kitchens, where every recipe published in the magazine and its range of bestselling cookery books is rigorously tested so that you can cook any Good Housekeeping dish with confidence.

Reviews

[Evan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful and thorough handbook for homeowners. It explains everything you might need to know--from choosing the right cut of beef to patching your own roof--to maintain a successful household.

[Gloria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent, all-purpose for how to care for your home. Sometimes if you just take away one or two new ideas, it is worth looking at a book like this. Nicely laid out. Easy to find topics.