Apartment Therapy: cleaning

Green Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Service

A couple years ago we needed to deep clean the carpeted hallway stairs that lead up to our third floor apartment. A friend of a friend had recently started an eco carpet and upholstery cleaning bu...

Green Clean Your Pet

We recently adopted a Husky/Chow mix from the pound who came (luckily) house trained! She does phenomenally well at home during the day while we're at work but occasionally, she'll be so excited to s...

7 Household Uses for Coffee Grounds

Most of us can agree that coffee is a crucial step in our morning wakeup routine. The only things to debate are the options of how we brew the coffee and what type container to drink it from. But what...

Eco-Friendly House Cleaning Services

We've often promoted transitioning from traditional chemical-laden home cleaners to more eco-friendly (and often DIY) formulas as a no-brainer. But what if you have hired help? Of course, a simple sol...

Green Notebook: 7 Simple Tips for a Greener Kitchen

For a lot of people, the kitchen is the heart of the house. Sure, it's where meals are prepared, but it's also where kids hang out, friends share a few drinks, and families decompress. Here are 7 real...

Good Question: How to Strip a Tile Floor?

(Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first. Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to: green(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com)This is, embarrassingly, our o...

Wooden Clothes Drying Rack by Abundant Earth

As summer winds down, taking with it the breeze and heat that helps our clothes line dry, we look to alternate ways to dry our clothes inside, sans clothes dryer....

Does Eco-Bleach Work?

We have to admit our shortcomings in the grout-cleaning department. No matter how much eco-friendly cleaner we use, we just can't seem to keep the grout bright white. Our old trick was to douse it wi...

Eco-Me Cleaning Kits

These kits consist of 100% natural ingredients and cover the gamut of needs: for home, body, baby, and pets. We've given cleaning supplies as housewarming gifts before, but this green batch of goodne...

SKOY Cloths

We have a guilty confession to make: we have not yet fully completed our transition away from paper towels. We still use them, albeit as a last resort for spills and particularly terrible tasks, lik...

Good Question:A Green Unscented Laundry Detergent?

(Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first. Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to: green(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com) Tiamat the Red left this q...

Review: Wintree Laundry Detergent from Costco

Jonathan likes the environmentally-friendly dish soap he purchased at Costco, and we have mostly good things to say about the gigantic jug of laundry detergent we picked up there a few weeks ago....

Blossom Cleaning Company: Eco-Friendly Cleaning Service

We received a tip about a young eco-friendly cleaning service that works in New York City and The Hamptons — Blossom Cleaning Company started earlier this year and has a commitment to using non-...

How To: Fix a Slow Draining Sink with Water, Baking Soda, and White Vinegar

Our sink has been draining very slowly for months; but, complete laziness has kept us from doing anything about it. Last night when we were brushing our teeth, we realized that we'd let it all go ...

Blogging the LATimes... Products Derived from Natural, Nontoxic Ingredients are now Mainstream

It was the interactive diagram of a house that hooked us... what's that orange dot lurking in the bathroom? Sodium dicholoroisocyanurate, of course......

Review: Costco Environmentally Friendly Liquid Dish Soap

Costco has a new line of dish soap under their house brand, Kirkland Signature.We tried it—even though that meant buying more than a gallon of a product that we didn't know if we would like....

AT on ... Laundry Duty. Time to Sniff?

Clotheslines, dryer balls, eco-friendly detergent, dryer sheets ... we love to blog about laundry issues here at Re-nest. And, to tell you the truth, it's probably my fault. I like laundry -- it's...

Greening Our Habits: Making the Dishwasher Eco-Friendlier

Around our house, we have a new motto about habits: If you can't beat 'em, green 'em. We're working on our dishwasher habit right now, and we could use some tips. Jump below to find out why....

Green Vacuum: Eureka's EnviroVac

Remember how we said we don't like carpet? We should explain, because what we really don't like is all the dust, allergens and general nastiness that a carpet collects and holds onto. If you can g...

Organic Kitchen Towels at Target

Stephanie noticed that Target has an entire new section on their website dedicated to "smart choices for you and the environment." We're seeing the same kind of green creep in their stores, such as t...

Mrs. Meyers Dryer Sheets: Now Biodegradable

We've got one of those little green confessions to make: We try to dry a lot of our clothes on a drying rack and by hanging them from other various places in the apartment, but we still use the d...

Where Clean Meets Green: Freedom Waterless Car Wash

Green @ Home month might be over, but that doesn't mean we haven't stopped looking for ways to improve our environmental impact on a day to day basis. As noted a few times, water use is a big issue he...

Reader Tip: Hang & Dry Plastic Clothespins

DGen brought these nifty little clothespins to our attention in a comment on our Overloaded Drying Rack post. ...

How to: Make A Green Pesticide

After a long vacation, we were excited to finally come home, but some spider mites had the same idea—and had made themselves at home on our jade. What to do? We whipped up this homemade remedy, so ...

The Duo Washing Machine: Wash Your Hands and Then Your Clothes

Here is the reverse of the washup toilet and washing machine combo. And by reverse we don't mean the toilet water is being used to wash your clothes. Yuck. We are talking a sink and washer combined i...