Showing posts with label home decoration tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home decoration tips. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

How to Clean Porcelain Floor Tiles

Porcelain tiles are definitely one of the most favored choices of flooring for kitchens and bathrooms. The strong point of porcelain tiles is durability and easiness to clean. In fact, one can clean these floors in a better fashion that any other types of floors. The reason is, these tiles are moisture and staining resistant. If you maintain cleanliness on a regular basis by doing just mopping and sweeping, then you are guaranteed to have shiny floors for a long duration. But if in case, you are missing out on regular cleaning because of hectic schedule then we will tell you how to clean porcelain tiles.

While you begin the process it would be prudent to gather some materials required for cleaning tiles. Hot water, vinegar, broom, dish soap, mop or sponge and soft damp cloth are primary housekeeping requirements. Start by sweeping the floor tiles. Instead of a vacuum cleaner, use broom because cleaner might cause some scratch on the tiles. Focus on grout lines because of dirt factor. Once you are done with sweeping, use a sponge or damp mop and sweep away the dirt. Vinegar will come into use for scrubbing purpose. Mix distilled vinegar with dish soap in hot water and you have a very effective water solution. Lastly, use clean water and damp cloth and remove all the residue and here you get; completely clean porcelain tiles.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Preserving Books – Tips

Books are known to cause great things to humans. It has helped in building empires, winning wars and establishing great businesses. In such context, it would be really fitting to accord books the due respect in your homes. One of the best collections any person can ever have is encyclopedia collection. Make sure your kid is in possession of an encyclopedia. It’s a wonderful thing, full of knowledge. These days’ kids are having huge number of questions. The general IQ level has increased and so it becomes quite natural that kids keep asking one question after another. One can not have answers for all of them. In such cases encyclopedia comes very handy. Not only kids will come to know about their answers you will also get to know so many facts you were previously unaware of.

While decorating your home with books make sure that they are taken care of. Don’t forget to apply preserving tools once in a while so that your books remain with you forever. Few of those suggestions include, never keep your books in the sun and placing your books horizontally instead of vertically. Don’t laminate your books because that causes damage due to acid. Filing away and not folding is a much better option. Make sure to have your bookshelf cleaned regularly. That action will take care of bookworms and dust factor. Keep your books away from humid places. Apply all these tips and keep your home rich with books and knowledge.