Home Almanac

by Alice Wong (Editor), Lena Tabori (Editor)

Home Almanac is for everyone who dreams of a beautiful, comfortable, clean, tidy, and safe home. It presents timeless wisdom passed down from generations of homemakers-from setting the perfect table to cleaning and ironing tips-as well as up-to-date information relevant to today's modern homes-from advice on major purchases to how to remove your name from mail and phone lists. Filled with 150 pieces of vintage art, Home Almanac brings charm to tips and information, charts and diagrams, lists and steps. Each chapter: Room by Room, Cleaning and Organization, Design and Improvements, Maintenance and Repairs, Entertaining and Etiquette, and Resources gives today's busy homemaker a handy and beautiful guide that is easy and enjoyable to use. Home Almanac is everything you nee to plan, maintain, and improve your house or apartment.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2004

Reviews

[rabbitprincess]

A decent compendium of various home-related issues, with chapters on home decorating, entertaining, cleaning and organization, and home repairs. I found the sections on cleaning and organizing to be particularly instructive, especially the part where it suggests various cleaning tasks to perform daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annually, and yearly, in order to make it easier to keep the place tidy (something I'm not that good at doing).

One thing that did bother me about this book was the spelling errors and misused words that popped up on occasion: for example, typos where "your" was just "you", or the constant misuse of the word "insure" (it was used where "ensure" would have been the correct choice). Still, there's bound to be some useful information in this book for most people, and it's very nicely illustrated.

[Stefanie Jones]

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