Spring Cleaning Time!

It’s April and baseball is back, which means…SPRING IS HERE!  While we are all thrilled that the temperatures are rising, this is also a good time go through closets, your garage or basement and get rid of all of the things you don’t use and rid yourself of unnecessary clutter.  To help you in your Spring Cleaning projects, our Marketing Team picked some items that will help make your home shine from floor to ceiling.

Keep your home clean and beautiful with this Casabella Wet and Dry Disposable Cloth Sweeper. Capable of cleaning with both wet and dry cloths, this Wet and Dry Disposable Cloth Sweeper can be used on ceramic, hardwood, or linoleum floors. This Wet and Dry Disposable Cloth Sweeper comes with one wet and two dry cloths, allowing you to begin cleaning immediately!  Additional Casabella Wet Disposable Cloths and Casabella Dry Disposable Cloths are also available for purchase.

Keep your elegant countertops looking new and polished with Clean EnCounters Countertop Spray Cleaner. This efficient household cleaner comes in two sizes (8 ounce and 32 ounce) for tackling large jobs in the kitchen, and small jobs in the bathroom, and is perfect for cleaning any granite, marble, quartz, laminates and formica countertop surfaces.

The OXO Microfiber Duster with Extendible Reach is not your ordinary duster. After using this one, you will never want to go back to standard dusters. The 12 inch large microfiber dust mop head is large enough to cover a lot of territory, yet small enough to reach into corners. Duster head pivots 135 degrees and rotates 180 degrees, exposing clean surface.  Microfiber dusters attract dust better than other dusting products, reducing airborne dust, and eliminating the need for harsh chemicals. This one is also machine washable and will last a very long time.  The lightweight, aluminum handle extends from 24 to 54 inches, which is great for dusting ceiling fans and the tops of cabinets. Adjustments are made with a simple twist of the wrist.

Significantly reduce the indoor allergic symptoms caused by mites with Ultimate Mite Allergen Relief Spray. This spray effectively eliminates everything that mites feed off of, effectively killing them. The Ultimate Mite Allergen Relief Spray is safe to use on carpet, mattresses, and other fabric surfaces throughout the home, and leaves behind a fresh linen scent. Bottle contains 22 fluid ounces, contains no pesticides and is entirely safe to use around pets and children.  This long lasting formula protects for up to 30 days each use.

Clean the dust off your vents and other hard to reach places with this Nylon Vent Brush. This vent brush is 30 inches long with the bristles occupying 21 1/2 inches of the brush. The vent brush has nylon bristles that can be hand washed. This vent brush has a flexible core, which allows you to easily clean heating and air conditioning vents, under refrigerators, dryer lint traps and other hard to reach places. The handle of this vent brush has a soft rubber grip and a hole for easy hanging storage.

Unbeatable citrus power and a specially formulated cleaning solution combine to make Liquid Goo Gone Stain Remover one of the most reliable and versatile stain removes ever! Tackling everything from grease spots to gum in your carpeting, the Liquid Goo Gone Stain Remover will save you time, money and energy while removing stains at home, on clothing, or in vehicles. Perfect for use at home, the office, or in the RV.  The makers of Goo Gone have created three other formulas to help in removing tough stains and other messes:  Goo Gone Spray Gel, Goo Gone BBQ Grill Cleaner and Goo Gone Patio Furniture Cleaner.

Grab all of the dust on your shelves and counters in one swipe of your hand with this Microfiber Dusting Mitt. Coming in yellow and gray, this dusting mitt is made of microfiber chenille, which can grab dust from surfaces instead of pushing it around like traditional feather dusters. When this dusting mitt becomes too dingy, simply throw it in your washer for cleaning. This dusting mitt has a decorative fabric cuff adorned with polka dots to add a chic touch to this cleaning product. Even Donna Reed would be jealous.

The OXO Good Grips Expandable Wall-Mounted Organizer reduces clutter in any closet or garage. This expandable organizer expands from 15 to 24 inches and holds up to 12 items such as brooms, umbrellas, rakes, shovels, mops and more. The expanding mop and broom rack is a welcome addition to any home and helps organize all your long handle tools. Also works great in the garage to keep brooms, rakes and shovels neatly put away on any wall. A built-in level and mounting hardware are included for easy installation.

Closet Shelving as a Birthday Present!?!

Under just about any circumstance, giving someone a shelving unit as a gift can typically be a dicey decision. While many do like to get practical gifts, most of us are just looking to get some cool new toys for the home. Closet shelving as a gift is usually met with general disappointment.

Even I, as a person that is considered to be a dedicated connoisseur of the art of home storage, rarely if ever would place a wall-mounted floating shelf anywhere near the top of my Wish List. However, I have decided that there is one particular home-storage and organization related item that makes for an excellent gift.

Maybe you are like me and have a large walk-in closet but are unable to find an efficient, cost-effective way to make the most of the space. Well, adding a closet shelving system can make an incredible difference. Though closet storage systems do not make the most exciting present, they are the perfect choice for providing your home with a sense of greater organization.

Closet Shelving

While the walk-in closet in my bedroom is very spacious, it is lacking in useful shelving for storing all of our clothing. As of right now, our closet looks like a disaster area, with clothes stacked on top of each other, shoes all over the floor and accessories scattered around – basically a huge mess. Adding a modular closet shelving system is the perfect solution for getting the closet organized. What is great about this modular system is I can pick and choose the pieces I want, ensuring I don’t waste money on storage pieces I have no need for.

For our closet, the perfect accessories were:

1.)    The Standard System, which included

  1. Three 12″ x 24″ shelves
  2. Three 12″ x 72″ shelves
  3. Five Wardrobe Bars
  4. 9 Bar Spacers
  5. 4 Angle Brackets

2.)    A wall-mounted shelf tower, perfect for putting our folded clothes

Wall Mounted Shelf

3.)    An under-mount tie and belt rack for organizing all of our accessories

Under-Mount Tie and Belt Rack

4.)    A deep wire basket for catch-all storage

Deep Wire Basket

5.)   And lastly, a few additional shelves for the shelf tower

 

Wall Shelves Set the Stage for Spring Cleaning

As the weather warms up, it is time to start thinking about wall shelves again, and their incredible ability to increase organization without decreasing floor space.

Perhaps it is not my favorite springtime activity, but spring cleaning is a necessary task around my home come March and April. The clean up job is not nearly as much work now that I live in sunny Southern California, but just a few years ago I was living in the frigid Northeast.

For those that do not know, it gets cold up there. I mean really, really cold. And it is cold for a long time – like four or five months straight of sub 40 degree temperatures with a few snowstorms and wintery mix thrown in for good measure.

Some people are natural-born Eskimos, but unfortunately this California boy was not. So I would pretty much hibernate in my apartment and let it turn into a scene from hoarders by the time the ground started thawing out.

Anyways, this year I was in the middle of my big clean up job when I realized that my dining room walls were completely devoid of decoration, and that my cabinets had started to become overfilled with various dining room items.

The best way to add some décor to the dining room (or any room of the home, really) is to add a decorative wall shelf to the area. There are a variety of attractive wall shelves, from scrolling metal wall shelves to more simple wood shelves.

Wall Shelves

What is great about these wall shelves is that they are incredibly easy to install and once they are up on the wall, they stay there! For the most part I just moved some of my trinkets around, such as my decorative sugar bowl and my cute porcelain salt and pepper shakers.

Wall Shelves

These wall shelves float, but they are not a witch!

 

This was a great move because it cleared up the counter space in my kitchen and dining room, leaving me with much more area to concoct my delicious spring and summer delicacies