Day 16: Clean One Room The 20/20 Home Cure

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Hello! We're into the final stretch. It's our last week and our last 20 minute room clean (unless you do more this week) and I've chosen our bathroom for today's video. I've thrown in a few tips and - close to my heart - there's an aside on cleaning with children.

So let's put on our cleaning shoes and go for it!

• On Truly Learning How To Clean Your Home
• One Small Chore to Help You Master Daily Cleaning
• How Do You Make Cleaning Less Of A Chore?
• How To: Clean the Bedroom in 10 Minutes
• Great Cleaning Tips for Those Short on Time

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Did You Know You Can Wash Dry Clean Clothes at Home? Whole Living

Unless there's a dry cleaners on your block, many of us would prefer to just buy garments we can launder at home without the hassle of taking things in, let alone remembering to pick them back up. Well relax, there might be some garments that can easily be washed at home without the headache. Here's what to look for:

The folks over at Whole Living shared a little insight behind the world of fashion. When an item can be either washed or dry cleaned, usually the company will opt to just say dry clean on the label to make sure we don't shrink our shirts and write them nasty letters telling them they told us we could do so.

So many items that are dry clean — really aren't! Some items that can be washed by hand at home are solid-c0lor cotton, wool, linen, rayon and washable silk. Want to learn more? It might just open up a whole new world of shopping and laundering to you. Check out all the details over at Whole Living.

Image: Flickr member vintagedept licensed for use by Creative Commons

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Turf Wars: SoMa Grand Residents to Feds: Clean Up Your Act

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, July 26, 2011, by Abby Pontzer

[photo via Sally Kuchar]

Turns out living near 7th and Mission can be a little gritty, as SoMa Grand residents are finding out. They share a courtyard with the Federal Building, and when workers leave for the night, residents say that no-gooders turn the courtyard into a drinking, drugging, and urinating free-for-all. This is, of course, the story we hear a lot with the mid-Market area. But when an entity (government or corporation) actually uses a building instead of leaving it vacant, it becomes their responsibility to keep the area clean, lest it reflect poorly against them. Who would SoMa Grand residents complain to if they shared the courtyard with just another boarded up storefront? The Feds have actually committed to station night guards and perform regular cleaning. We wonder if we will see this happen in the rest of Mid-Market during the "revitalization."
· S.F. federal building plaza draws neighbors' ire [SF Gate]

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Outdoors Week: Seeking Pics of Passive-Aggressive Dog Clean Up Signs

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Wednesday, June 22, 2011, by Sally Kuchar

To get back to Outdoors Week, we're asking readers to submit photos of signs about picking up after a dog does its business. If you walk these streets, you know dog owners not picking up after their pet(s) is a real problem. Neighbors often take matters into their own hands and post notes around their 'hood. A good example would be the sign Beth Spotwood saw in the Mission where she lives, which you can see to the right. Have you seen a great sign around your 'hood that you'd like to share? Snap a pic and send it our way at sf@curbed.com.
· Beth Spotswood and Her Suburban Mission [Curbed SF]

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Magazine Living: Clean Water Act...

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Monday, January 31, 2011, by Sarah

The all-American characters of Gary and Elaine have wormed their way into households and hearts aplenty thanks to the ingenuity of Molly Erdman, whose Catalog Living blog points to certain styling curiosities within catalogs. We enlisted Erdman to author a Curbed National column in which she does the same to photos gracing the glossy pages of shelter magazines. Here now, let the games begin.

Photo: Joshua McHugh/Elle Decor

Martin and Gareth’s guests are always a little surprised by the request to wash their hands in another bathroom prior to washing them in the white bathroom.

· Catalog Living [official site]
· All Magazine Living columns [Curbed National]

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