I have had a dirty little secret!Everyone always tells me how clean my house is. It's not really. Not since I've had kids. You've seen those cute little signs, Excuse the mess, we are busy making memories or Excuse the mess, we live here? Well that's not really my style. In fact, my house is nothing like the clean it used to be before the kids. I've grown more accustomed to the mess, but so many little things tend to get over looked these days. Many people have exciting goals like running a marathon or skydiving (and I may have just become the biggest loser because I just googled Common goals people have, because I couldn't come up with 2 good ideas), you know what I've always wanted? To put my house on the market and have the ad say, "Mrs. Clean lives here". I'm not kidding, I actually told my realtor I wanted that on my add. She said, your house will sell itself. OK, she was right, but I really wanted that at the time. One thing I've been over-looking lately is my kitchen cabinets. I'm home cleaning today and thought, maybe today's the day to get that grease off the cabinets. Now keep in mind, these are just the cabinets over the stove, and grease is always building up on these cabinets. I wipe down my cabinets frequently, since they are white and show any dirt, but I do tend to "overlook" these top cabinets because I never could seem to get the grime off with much success. I have those god-awful therma-foil and for lack of a better term the surface is "pockey". That means there is a little texture that allows dirt and grease to accumulate. The picture shows best how greasy these cabinets were. I've tried many products before, but today I decided to go for some simple soft scrub and a warm dish rag. I love the lemon scent and use this for a lot of my cleaning. I poured it on my dishcloth and just rubbed it on the grease, and just like that, all of the grease and grime came off. I've tried many other cleaners and de-greasers and seriously never got such great results with barely any elbow grease at all. I might suggest if you are working over your head that you wear some protective eyewear, because trust me when I say, you don't want your break from cleaning to involve trying to get soap out of your eye! Just sayin. Check out the before and afters. It's really pretty amazing!

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got that finished. These are Dash and Albert indoor/outdoor runners and should be very durable for stairs. I used carpet tape and 1/2" staples to keep them in place and love the outcome!

You can see the entire tutorial on my blog!

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& posted them here. For many people one big issue they have is not knowing where to start or they are stuck looking at a huge list & they freak. When we originally introduced the series on the HTRC we decided to break down the needed chores into more manageable portions taking into account Holidays, Vacations, and one's overall busy schedules, the weather - so with no further ado, here is February's...

In last month's checklist – we had you do the walk about,where you should have listed any area's that might need to be watched, well itis time to check up on those areas. If any areas need attention, get them taken care of now or add them to your indoor projects list.

If you have ceramic tile, granite or any other stoneproducts in your house now is a good time to clean and reseal them, before the gardening and other outside work takes over.

How is the rest of your flooring? Now is a good time to lookat getting it cleaned or repaired. Many flooring stores start having sales this month to get rid of last year's overstock to make room for new.

For more tips, February's Garden & Grounds checklist,and getting a jump on Spring Cleaning: http://blog.sls-construction.com/2010/februa...

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