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Clean and Green Without the Pine

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by Lisbeth Tanz on February 28, 2010

If you think the top indicator of a clean house is it must smell like a pine tree–or worse–Greg Nicklas of Maid Brigade of Portland would like to clean yours.
Maid Brigade, a national cleaning franchise that’s been in the Portland, OR, area for over 16 years, decided to “go green” in April 2007. “It was [...]

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This Is Your Garage…On Steroids

by Kat on February 21, 2010

OKAY. If you want to see amazing garage transformations, check out The Garage Design Center, St. Louis. It’s what your garage would want to look like if it won the Extreme Makeover Home Edition!
Dale Heuvelmann is the owner of The Garage Design Center. He and his gang will be at the St. Louis Builders Home [...]

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Americans Waste 2 Months Per Year Searching for Things

by Lisbeth Tanz on June 13, 2009

We’ve all done this: Gone to the last place we put something, only to find it’s not there anymore. Or while rooting around in the pantry for dinner, we discover a container of something that expired … 2 years ago. Or while working away in our home office, we realize we need a document for [...]

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I *Heart* My Redesigned Garage

by Lisbeth Tanz on June 5, 2009

It’s been said that we live in a throwaway society. I beg to differ. I mean have you looked in your neighbor’s garage lately? How about your basement?
We Americans seem to thrive on clutter and collecting things for which we don’t really have room. Garages seem especially prone to the accumulation of stuff that doesn’t [...]

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Beam Central Vacuums Suck Big Time

by Kat on March 2, 2009

And that’s a good thing. I never knew much about central vacuum systems until I got my Beam 101 lesson from Stuart Krawll of Beam of St. Louis. The company has been in business for 28 years, and it’s one of the exhibitors at the St. Louis Builders Home and Garden Show.
Beam makes more [...]

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