Everything has a price. If there’s no such thing as a free lunch, there’s definitely, indubitably, without any whiff of a question, no such thing as a cost-free way to save the planet. However, it may just be the case that a method delivering the ongoing habitability of the earth warrants a certain investment. Possibly […]
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Natural fibres. Aren’t they lovely? Especially when it comes to flooring made from grass. No, not a misguided attempt to have an indoor lawn. And definitely not an astroturf carpet. We’re talking about exotic grasses like sisal, seagrass, and, the material we’re concentrating on today, jute. Hardwearing and great-looking, jute is a great choice for
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Whenever there’s a mishap and your world becomes a little fuller with colour you really didn’t ask for, it’s tempting to grab a chemical product and banish the bother in a spray or two. However, next time it happens, before you lunge for the usual, why not try something a whole lot less harmful to
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Dry’s dry, right? If something’s dry, then it’s not wet, so that’s that. Not so fast! Life is, of course, rarely that simple. Just as things are rarely just black and white, the picture when it comes to laundry is never a matter of just wet and dry. Tumble dryers are experts at jumbling things
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Dishwashers are among the most blessed of items. The soulless drudgery they’ve rescued us from should render us almost giddy with appreciation. Alas, dishwashers don’t get the gratitude they warrant. In fact, they get positively harangued if the dishes they dutifully deal with come out any less than immaculately clean. Poor dishwashers. But hang on.
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LVT. Luscious Violet Tresses? Lovely Velveteen Trousers? No. At least not usually. LVT stands for Luxury Vinyl Tile. It’s a super-durable and enormously practical type of flooring. It’s being used more and more widely as people cotton on both to its suitability for use in a wide variety of settings, as well as the fact
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A leather jacket’s tough. No, not just in that it’s hardwearing. Leather jackets are tough in that when they get dirty it’s not always easy to know what to do with them. And it can be the case that leather jacket wearers almost make a point of getting them dirty. Take motorcyclists—oil and the grime
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You may think beer’s good for drinking. Well, cheers to that, but there are other really good uses you can put beer to, so you’d better get another round in. You see, beer’s got alcohol in it. No kidding, right? The point is, alcohol has amazing cleaning properties, which is why rubbing alcohol features in
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We’ve all been there. We’re busily baking away when – oh no! – we trip up on our slightly too big Bob the Builder slippers and we face plant in the flour. No? Just me then. Ok, I bet you’ve had a non-cartoon-footwear-related flour mishap, and wondered just what you do with that flour that’s
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Time was, you couldn’t move for pewter. This tin alloy was the material of choice for the vessels of millions of ale swiggers and mead quaffers up and down the land. It may not be quite such a massively popular material nowadays, but you do still find it being used in ornaments and knick-knacks, so
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