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House Love: A Joyful Guide To Cleaning, Organizing, And Loving The Home You're In

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House Love is a cheerful and thoughtful guide to cleaning, organising, and embracing the joy of maintaining your home. Patric Richardson, known as "The Laundry Evangelist," offers a whole-house approach to tidying up, from the entryway to the attic, and the backyard to the bedroom. Filled with design inspiration, DIY projects, and expert cleaning tips, this book encourages you to personalise your space and find joy in everyday household tasks. With practical advice like creating antibacterial sprays and quick cleaning strategies, plus fun playlists and recipes, House Love transforms chores into acts of love and celebration of the home you're in.
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Format: Hardback
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House Love is perfect for readers who enjoy home and garden books, especially those looking for uplifting, practical advice on cleaning and organising. It's ideal for homeowners, renters, and anyone wanting to refresh their living space with warmth, personality, and a fresh perspective on household care.

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Discover the joy of cleaning with this cheery and thoughtful guide to tidying up and turning your house into a home.

Patric Richardson is known as “The Laundry Evangelist,” but his genuine love for household chores extends far beyond the laundry room. His philosophy is simple: tidying up is a privilege and a task you do for those you love (including yourself), and there are a million ways to infuse joy into the everyday tasks behind maintaining a home.

House Love is his sunny guide to freshening up every inch of the house—from the entryway to the attic, the backyard to the bedroom. Patric shares his best design inspiration, DIY projects, and, of course, cleaning tips, so you can fall in love with your home all over again—or for the very first time!

This book also grants you permission to shake things up. Keep bath salts in a cookie jar? Sure. Display a surprising mishmash of pillows? You bet. Discover your personal design style? He helps you do that too. Plus, Patric’s cleaning genius will change your life, with expert advice like:

  • Which three cleaning tools are worth splurging on
  • How to create a powerful (and antibacterial) cleaning spray with lemon and thyme
  • What exactly to clean when you only have 10 minutes to spare

Complete with fun-to-clean-to playlists, charming recipes, and even step-by-step instructions for cleaning every type of room, House Love brightens up life’s most common chores. With this book, you’ll learn new and novel ways to transform your home, and Patric’s entertaining stories, good humour, and genuine warmth will guide you every step of the way.

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"With cheery wisdom, humour and warmth, Richardson shares tips, like which cleaning tools are worth the splurge and strategies for tidying every type of room, that turn cleaning and organising into an act of love!" -- Woman's World

"House Love will inspire even the most reluctant homemaker to begin tackling long-neglected projects around the house." -- Shelf Awareness

"After tackling--with joy!--that pile of dirty clothes in Laundry Love (2021), Richardson and Miller take a whole-house approach." -- Booklist

"House Love takes readers on a home tour from entryway to garage, complete with cleaning, organisation, decorating, and care tips, plus laugh-out-loud anecdotes and memories from Richardson's Kentucky childhood and current St. Paul home." -- Mpls.St.Paul Magazine

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780063278424

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: HarperCollins

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 225.0mm

Weight: 334g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Patric Richardson is America's go-to expert for laundry quandaries, author of the best-selling Laundry Love: Finding Joy in a Common Chore, and star of The Laundry Guy on HGTV and Discovery Plus. He's featured frequently on national and international TV and radio shows, and in prominent publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Times, Die Welt, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, and Better Homes & Gardens. Richardson also created the ever-popular and often sold-out Laundry Camps, and runs his Mall of America boutique, Mona Williams. He lives with his partner in the well-cared-for brownstone he renovated in St. Paul, Minnesota. Karin B. Miller is an award-winning writer and editor. She's coauthor of Laundry Love; she's written for myriad national and regional magazines; and she created and edited two national anthologies, The Cancer Poetry Project 1 & 2. Miller lives with her family in an 1888 farmhouse in Minneapolis.

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