Design | Wellness | Cabinetry
Clean your dishwasher with Lemonade Kool-Aid?
According to the folks at Life-Hacker, running your empty dishwasher with a
Lemonade Kool-Aid packet in the detergent cup will clean lime deposits and iron stains.
Don’t try using other flavors, it’s the citric acid in the Lemonade that attacks the stains.
I’ve heard that Tang works too but I have not tried it.
With Black Friday quickly approaching I thought I’d share a post from Laurie at Kitchen Design Notes.
She writes about the importance of being mindful this Holiday Season of the waste our wrapped gifts can create. If each American family wrapped just three presents in recyclable materials, we would save enough paper to cover 45,000 football fields.
For people who aren’t crafty I like one of her suggestions of “wrapping” a gift in a towel. If you are staying with a relative or friend for the holiday a monogrammed hand towel wrapped around your gift tied with a grosgrain ribbon is perfect.
My family often decorates packages with ornaments. It adds a great decorative touch and can be enjoyed year after year.
I’d love to hear about other great things people do.
Gore Design Company uses nature as it’s inspiration for it’s Erosion countertops and sinks. The water from the faucet looks like it has worked away layers from the surface just as a river might cut through a canyon. Fortunately your sink won’t wear away.
Gore attributes being able to make their complex designs by working with glass-fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) with is lighter and better for casting complex shapes. Gore uses water-based sealers so there are no VOCs. Their pigments are also environmentally conscious by being free of heavy metals. By dry polishing their pieces Gore saves about 600 gallons of water per project. Their website proclaims they are “leading the concrete revolution, at the forefront of environmentally responsible design.”
Gore Design Co. also offers concrete classes. There are 4 classes scheduled for 2008. Gore Design Company’s workshop [only64] offers a rare opportunity to learn how to fabricate Glass-Fiber Reinforced Concrete. According to their website less than 1% of concrete fabricators know this method.
LG Solid Source LLC. (LGSS), the North American sales and marketing arm for LG HI-MACS® Acrylic Solid Surface, LG HI-MACS Volcanics Collection®, LG HI-MACS Eden Collection®, and LG Viatera® Natural Quartz recently announced that these products are now GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certified® for low- chemical emissions with and without LG Adhesive.
“The GREENGUARD certification is a testament to our ongoing commitment to provide environmentally-sensitive products that meet the demands of everyone from the designer to the installer. It also complements well our very popular LG Eden product line which has been independently certified by SCS certification to having at least 12 percent post-industrial recycled materials,” says Mike Tasch, product manager.
